An attempt by mines and oil minister Adama Toungara to win back control of Ivory Coast’s mining sector (AMI 270/271) by submitting a new mining bill looks unlikely to succeed. Indeed, the opposite seems the case.
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Tension is near breaking point between RusAl and president Alpha Conde. The Friguia alumina refinery that the Russian group manages [...]
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Under restoration for a little over a year, the Namib lead and zinc mine near the coast has been deflooded. [...]
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A feasibility study on Sandpiper’s marine phosphates project some 160 km south of the port of Walvis Bay, which has [...]
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New Dawn Mining Corp is pursuing its exploration program despite an increasingly uncertain investment climate in Zimbabwe. The Harare government [...]
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Ever since a bust-up between the government and China-owned Guinea Development Corp (GDC) early this year, Bellzone Mining, a partner [...]
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Two years after bringing foreign investors into his Luisha South copper and cobalt stockpile, Simeon Tshisangama, boss of TSM Enterprises, [...]
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Rio Tinto appears ever more determined to use the Zambezi River to carry coal from its new Genga mine starting [...]