May 22, 2019 Zimbabwe mine output subdued in first quarter as dollar crunch bites Gold deliveries to central bank unit Fidelity Printers and Refiners, which buys all the country's gold, declined to 6.5 tonnes from 7.3 tonnes during the January-March quarter.
May 22, 2019 Ghana seeks investors to mine bauxite, fund infrastructure The government will receive proposals from interested parties until the end of the year on how to expand production.
May 22, 2019 To borrow $500m, Zimbabwe pledges mine that doesn’t exist The collateral for African Export-Import Bank’s $500 million loan to Zimbabwe is a mine that Great Dyke Investments, a venture between Russian investors and the Zimbabwean military, plans to build…
May 22, 2019 Acacia blames Barrick for barring it from Tanzania talks, mulls takeover bid Comments come after parent company Barrick Gold proposed to acquire all of the shares it does not already own in the Tanzanian miner.
May 21, 2019 Tanzania to start cancelling inactive mining licences Tanzania will start cancelling inactive mining exploration licences and distribute the acreage to artisanal miners who are able to immediately commence activity in the area.
May 21, 2019 Vedanta, KCM seek urgent Zambia talks, court appoints liquidator The news has rattled foreign investors already nervous governments in central African countries are seeking a much bigger share of resource revenues.
May 21, 2019 Zambia’s plan to seize copper mines stuns investors Zambia’s Eurobond yields rose to record highs after the government of the cash-strapped copper producer said it’s planning to seize Vedanta’s mining assets.
May 20, 2019 S.Africa’s Amplats fires over 600 underground workers at its Mototolo mine The company fired about half of the underground workers at its Mototolo mine following an illegal strike.
May 20, 2019 Zambia’s Lungu seeks new investor in Vedanta-controlled copper miner London-listed Vedanta said in a statement that it was seeking an urgent meeting with Lungu over the future of KCM.
May 20, 2019 Lonmin plans to cut 4,100 workers as it closes platinum mines The platinum producer has started a process that’s required under South African labor law to carry out the workforce reductions.
Copper price nears $13,000 on tariffs woes, supply strain Mine outages, tariff risks and tight supply push copper toward a milestone despite weakening Chinese demand. December 29, 2025 | 05:51 am
