December 6, 2018 Zimbabwe’s handling of diamond industry the ultimate test for Mnangagwa’s reform — report President Emmerson Mnangagwa is making moves to end the country’s international isolation and attract foreign investment to boost an economy in tatters, including allowing new private investment in the diamond…
December 5, 2018 Lucapa kicks off commercial production at Mothae diamond mine The operation will add to the Perth-based company annual output, until now on depending on just one mine — Lulo, in Angola.
December 5, 2018 Zimbabwe to let two new private miners dig for diamonds It may even allow foreign investors to hold majority stakes in local operations on condition that part of their output is reserved for domestic downstream industries.
December 4, 2018 No. 2 platinum miner mulls purchases in low-cost asset shift Chief Executive Officer Nicolaas Muller said Implats could return to profit by around 2020 by shutting older shafts at its Rustenburg mining complex.
December 4, 2018 Ivan Glasenberg places a dirty $36B bet: Chris Bryant Glencore’s coal business should be a license to print money for several more years.
December 4, 2018 DRDGOLD begins first phase of Far West tailings project The South African miner is kicking off this week its Far West gold recoveries project in Gauteng with the pumping of reclaimed tailings into the carbon-in-leach circuit, just four months…
December 3, 2018 Semafo reports third security incident in Burkina Faso Jihadist militants ramp up attacks against security forces.
December 3, 2018 Sudan allows local private sector firms to export gold The measure is part of efforts to stem smuggling of gold, one of the country's main sources of foreign currency.
December 3, 2018 Congo triples levy on cobalt with strategic-minerals decree Congo is Africa's top copper producer and mines more than 60 percent of the world's cobalt
December 3, 2018 Congo state miner in production-sharing deal with Chinese firm Production sharing agreements align the interests of the two partners because the risk now weighs more on the investor than on Gecamines.
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