Mozambique and China have agreed to survey vast untapped deposits of critical minerals in the country's resource-rich northern provinces. The collaboration aims to unlock this lucrative frontier using Chinese capital and expertise.

Mozambique and China have agreed to map the vast, untapped deposits of critical minerals buried beneath the African nation’s resource-rich northern provinces, as Maputo seeks Chinese capital and security expertise to unlock one of the continent’s most coveted – and conflict-ridden – resource frontiers. The announcement was made in a joint statement issued after talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Mozambican counterpart Daniel Chapo in Beijing on Tuesday. The geological survey will...