Beyond Extraction: What Responsible Mining Owes Kenyan Communities
A mine’s relationship with the community around it doesn’t end when extraction does — if anything, that’s when the most important questions get asked. What happens to the land once the ore is gone? Did the community that hosted a mining operation for years actually benefit from it, or just live alongside it? In Kenya, […]
Inside Kenya’s New Mine Safety Regulations — and Why They Matter
Safety in mining is rarely a topic that makes headlines until something goes wrong. In Kenya, that’s beginning to change — not because of a single incident, but because the government is proactively rewriting the rules that govern mine safety across the entire sector, from the largest industrial operations down to individual artisanal miners. Why […]
Kenya’s Push for Local Mineral Processing and What It Means for the Industry
For most of its history, Kenya’s mining sector has followed a familiar pattern seen across much of the African mineral economy: extract the raw mineral, export it, and let the processing — and most of the resulting economic value — happen somewhere else. That pattern is now being deliberately dismantled, and the shift is worth […]
Mapping Kenya’s Mineral Wealth: A Region-by-Region Guide
Ask most people what Kenya is known for and mining rarely comes up — safaris and coastline usually win that conversation. Yet Kenya’s geology, shaped over billions of years, holds a genuinely diverse mineral base spread across four distinct zones of the country. For anyone sourcing minerals from Kenya, or simply trying to understand the […]
Kenya’s Mining Act 2016 Explained: What Community Development Agreements Really Mean
If you’ve read anything about mining in Kenya recently, you’ve probably come across the term “Community Development Agreement,” or CDA. It gets used often, but rarely explained in any detail. Given how central it is to how mining companies are legally required to operate in Kenya, it’s worth actually unpacking. Why Kenya Rewrote Its Mining […]
From Exploration to Export: Inside Our Mineral Value Chain
Most people encounter minerals only at the end of a very long journey — as steel in a building, glass in a window, or gold in a piece of jewellery. Getting there involves a chain of highly technical, tightly regulated stages, each demanding a different kind of expertise. At Manidweepa Minerals Kenya Limited, we manage […]