Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Production and Investment Forecasts in the Namibian Mining Industry” to their offering.This research service provides detailed and up-to-date market information on the production and investment trends in Namibia’s mining industry. Core objectives of the research service include the provision of an understanding of the production trends in the Namibian mining industry between 2000 and 2009, company and country level production forecasts for Namibia’s key minerals from 2011 to 2015, and finally an understanding of the industry’s capital expenditure trends for the 2009 to 2015 period.

This research service titled Production and Investment Forecasts in the Namibian Mining Industry provides comprehensive insights into production and investment trends in Namibia’s mining industry. The research service provide s a succinct analysis of industry fundamentals that drive growth and influence strategic planning and investment in Namibia. In this research, expert analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors: gold, diamonds, uranium and copper.Global economic trends such as rising commodity prices, surging demand for commodities by emerging economies and spiralling global demand for energy has resulted in strong investor interest in Namibia’s uranium, diamond and copper mining sectors.

High uranium prices, paralleled by growing global demand for energy, will result in Namibia doubling its uranium production to approximately 12,000 tonnes by 2015 from the 5,300 tonnes the country produced in 2009, notes the analyst of this research. Namibia’s extensive uranium deposits, coupled with the expansion of existing mines, will result in the country’s uranium production increasing sharply in the short to medium term.Expansion projects at the Rossing Uranium and Langer Heinrich uranium mines, together with the construction of two new min es by the Areva Group and Forsys, will result in a surge in Namibia’s uranium production over the next 4-5 years. With the construction of these two mines, the uranium mining sector will become the largest sector in the Namibian mining industry. Uranium is poised to overtake diamonds as Namibia’s largest foreign currency earner. Nevertheless, diamonds will continue to play a key role in the Namibian mining industry.