Terra Industries is having quite the year.
The Nigerian defence-tech company, which has raised $52 million this year, has secured another $1 million contract, this time to provide autonomous surveillance and site protection for a gold, lithium, copper and nickel project in Kaduna. The deal comes less than two weeks after Terra announced $2 million in contracts to secure two Nigerian lithium mining operations.
The company is clearly finding a business beyond defence, and mining security looks like an important part of it.
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Originally published by TechCabal.