Mineral Exploration and Project Development
Positioning Uganda’s mineral assets for credible exploration, reserve definition, feasibility work, investor readiness and project preparation.
📍 The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place, London
A Sector Programme of the UK–Africa Investment Summit 2026
UK–Uganda Mining Investment Session
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Uganda–UK
Mining Session 2026
Join investors, government leaders, financiers, mining companies and
project sponsors in London for a focused forum on Uganda’s mining investment future.
Engage Uganda’s Mining Opportunity in London
Parallel Session
Runs alongside the main UKAIS 2026 programme.
Strategic Growth Partner
Dedicated to Uganda’s mining and industrial opportunity.
Commercial Focus
Critical minerals, beneficiation, processing and infrastructure.
Investment Access
Direct engagement with policy, project and capital stakeholders.
Special Parallel Session
Uganda–UK Mining Session 2026
A dedicated UKAIS 2026 session focused on Uganda’s critical minerals, mining value chain, industrial processing and bankable production opportunities.
The Uganda–UK Mining Session 2026 is a special parallel session within the 16th UK–Africa Investment Summit 2026, dedicated to Uganda as the Summit’s Strategic Growth Partner.
Uganda enters this moment with significant potential across rare earths, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel, gold, iron ore, limestone, wolfram, zinc, glass sand, vermiculite and other industrial minerals.
The investment question is no longer whether Uganda has mineral potential. The real question is whether projects can move into financeable, compliant and infrastructure-linked processing platforms with credible routes to export, domestic value addition and industrial scale.
The session will bring together investors, government agencies, mining companies, financiers, project sponsors, technical experts and industrial partners to examine the partnerships required to move from mineral access to bankable production, beneficiation and downstream industrial value addition.
A dedicated parallel session for stakeholders seeking direct engagement on licensing, exploration, beneficiation, finance, infrastructure and long-term industrial value creation.
Key Themes and Discussions
Where Capital Meets Uganda’s Mining Value Chain
Focused on the commercial conditions required to move Uganda from resource access to production, processing and export-ready industrial output.
Beneficiation and Value Addition
Moving beyond raw extraction into processing, refining, smelting, industrial inputs, manufacturing linkages and export-ready products.
Critical and Strategic Minerals
Assessing opportunities linked to rare earths, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel, gold, iron ore and industrial minerals.
Regulation, Licensing and Compliance
Clarifying Uganda’s mining law, licensing pathways, cadastre processes, local participation requirements and ESG obligations.
Mining Infrastructure and Logistics
Connecting mineral-rich regions to power, transport corridors, water, processing facilities, industrial zones and export routes.
Finance, Risk and Bankability
Structuring projects for debt, equity, development finance, blended capital, offtake, guarantees, insurance and strategic partnerships.
Why Attend?
What Sets This Session Apart
Dedicated Uganda Session
Creates a focused environment for investors, government officials, mining operators, financiers and project sponsors working on Uganda’s mineral economy.
Runs Parallel to UKAIS 2026
Connects Uganda’s mining sector with international investors, DFIs, banks, corporates and infrastructure firms attending the wider summit.
Execution-Focused
Designed to support project visibility, investor introductions, financing conversations, regulatory engagement and structured follow-up.
UK Capability Linkages
Positions UK capital, legal expertise, ESG capability, engineering, insurance and technology as part of Uganda’s mining development pathway.
Turn Insight Into Action
Engage the Stakeholders Shaping Uganda’s Mining Pipeline
Uganda’s mining opportunity requires more than interest. It requires capital, credible projects, regulatory clarity, infrastructure alignment and commercial follow-through.
Schedule a Meeting
Engage directly with investors, project sponsors and offtakers.
Present a Project
Position investment-ready opportunities before strategic partners.
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The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place, London, 2 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EJ
📍 The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place, London
In a landmark Victorian building that was once the Secret Service's HQ, this posh hotel is a 2-minute walk from Embankment Underground Station and a 7-minute walk from the National Gallery.
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