Beneath the Rwandan hillside at Nyakabingo, hundreds of miners unearth daily a metal used in bombs and bullets that is central in the global race to control critical mineral supplies.
The mine, which was acquired in 2022 by the Trinity Metals Group, has tripled production since to become the largest source of tungsten in Africa, producing more than 1,200 tonnes of high-grade concentrate a year.
“It’s a relatively important piece of mining on a global scale,” said Shane Ryan, a seasoned Australian miner and chief operating officer of Trinity — which is backed by Dublin-based TechMet and the US Development Finance Corporation — from a tunnel deep inside the hill.
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