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Pit. Market. Policy.

Mecktilder M M is an advisor, speaker and policy voice across the African mineral value chain: from the pit to the policy table.

From the pit

  1. Value chain station: market
    2010

    Reads Commerce & Finance

    University of Dar es Salaam Business School

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    Trading with her mum since age eight, learning what money does and how systems work sounded like the real deal.

  2. Value chain station: pit
    2012

    Artisanal gold

    Melela (Morogoro) · Nanyupu (Mozambique)

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    Opened a new curiosity: these minerals must be hiding more than what we know.

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Her words against Act I: what the policy table has never seen

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What she built

  1. Value chain station: market
    2019

    Co-founds WOOW ME

    Dar es Salaam

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    Minerals no longer leaving without value added, mine to market: Africa owning its mineral narrative, everything created by Africans.

  2. Value chain station: pit to policy
    2021

    Founds TWiMMI

    Dar es Salaam

    A platform where women and youth in mining get clear information, the right networks, and access to finance, markets, training, technology and connections.

    More than 4,200 women and young people trained across East and Southern Africa in three years, moving from artisanal mining into critical minerals, gold and gemstones.

  3. Value chain station: pit, the return
    TBC

    Winza

    Winza

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    Winza photograph, full-bleed: the strongest moment on the site

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  4. Value chain station: processing
    2026

    Co-founds Anchorstone Holding

    Dar es Salaam

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    A services company taking mines from construction to operation, supplying consumables in critical minerals, defence and security, and building supply-chain systems.

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Her words against Winza: what reclaiming the licence meant

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To the policy table — and back

  1. Value chain station: policy
    2024

    Critical and strategic minerals recommendations, ICGLR

    DRC · Zambia · South Sudan · Kenya

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    Recommendations on critical and strategic minerals shaped for most ICGLR member states.

  2. Value chain station: pit to policy
    2024

    ASM handbook chapter, with PanAFGEO

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    The handbook is in service across 18 countries.

  3. Value chain station: policy
    2025

    Comparative analysis: US, EU and African critical minerals instruments

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  4. Value chain station: policy
    2026

    Hosted MI26

    Cape Town

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  5. Value chain station: policy
    2027

    MI27 Ambassador, 33rd edition

    Cape Town

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The closing line: why she still goes back

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