ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the value of Africa's mineral fortune from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines. It has brought together environmental and political scientists, economists and geographers, geologists and mining engineers, to consider the worth of minerals to the continent and ways to derive greater value from them for sustainable development. The book takes stock of the value of Africa's mineral endowment in all its facets and relative to the value of the other natural resources of land, water, biodiversity, and clean air to Africa's people and animals, and to the whole planet. It shows that mining stakeholders in Africa are ahead of those in other parts of the world in having articulated a broad and detailed policy for mineral development.
