March 8, 2019 Tanzania threatens Acacia with closing North Mara over water pollution The country's No.1 gold producer says the "brief" spill affecting the operation has already been halted and blamed vandals for destroying or stealing sections of the pipe it uses to…
March 7, 2019 Botswana sees lower mineral revenues in 2019 Retail jewellery sales fell during the last quarter of 2018, while polished prices continued to decline into the beginning of 2019.
March 7, 2019 South Africa’s Eskom may need more bailouts despite tariff hikes Eskom supplies more than 90 percent of the power in Africa's most industrialised economy.
March 7, 2019 Zimbabwe to allow foreign platinum miners control of local operations Foreign platinum and diamond miners have been restricted to only 49 percent ownership of their Zimbabwe operations by the black economic empowerment law.
March 6, 2019 Canadian juniors shifting focus to Africa, away from South America Spending destined for South America drops by $600m, while share of funds raised for exploration projects in Africa doubles.
March 6, 2019 Avesoro releases New Liberty underground PFS AccoThe new Liberty project has a measured and indicated resource of 20.5 million tonnes at 2.66 g/t gold.
March 6, 2019 Zimbabwe to scrap platinum and diamond mine ownership rules Zimbabwe holds the world’s second-largest known reserves of platinum-group metals after South Africa, plus substantial deposits of gold, diamonds, lithium, iron ore, coal, chrome and nickel.
March 6, 2019 Platinum price: S. Africa output jump will push oversupply to 6-year high Even though demand for the precious metal is growing for first time since 2015.
March 4, 2019 Newmont rejects $18B hostile bid by Barrick, releases private messages The US mining giant also fired back with a deal that seeks merging operations in the state of Nevada.
March 3, 2019 Codelco expected to generate $13.9 billion in 2019 Operating costs are forecasted to be of $9.9 billion.
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