Mining

The New Guard
Guinea, Ethiopia, Togo, South Africa

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Guinea Louis Camara, a miner taking on the oil sector

Ethiopia Brook Taye, Addis's economic eminence grise

Togo Karl Lawson, cyber events guru

South Africa Philani Mthembu, batting for BRICS

Uganda
EU saves the day to fund iron ore exploration

ADT Africa, a company founded and run by Australian national Benjamin Vietnieks, has won an €800,000 contract from the European Development Fund to assist the Ugandan Ministry of Mines in its iron ore exploration and exploitation strategy.

Madagascar
Kraoma's chrome plans stymied by politics

Ferrum Mining's abandonment of a project to revive a state flagship has led to the suspension of all activity. At the heart of the dispute between the Russian firm and Antananarivo is the company's inability, since Andry Rajoelina's election, to access permits with high chromium potential.

Burkina Faso, Russia
Nordgold's new boss in Ouagadougou for talks with junta

Georgy Smirnov, the new managing director of the Russian gold company, travelled discreetly to Burkina Faso's capital to try and reach an agreement with Ibrahim Traoré's junta on its gold exports and the future of its Taparko, Bissa and Bouly sites.

Guinea
Rio Tinto seeks UN support at Simandou

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto just approached UN Capital Development Fund for help developping projects for the local population around the enormous Simandou iron deposit in Guinea.

Namibia
Wilhelm Shali hopes for green light for Ongombo copper mine

The Shali Group recently applied for a mining licence for its copper mining project in Ongombo on the outskirts of Windhoek. This marks the beginning of a new phase for Namibian businessman Wilhelm Shali.

Mali
Barrick Gold reassured about its future in Mali after audit

As the Malian gold sector undergoes an audit ordered by the ruling junta, the Canadian giant Barrick Gold, the country's leading gold producer, said it was reassured by the initial exchanges its teams had had with the audit firm Mazars.

Mozambique, South Africa
Makole Group invests in graphite in Cabo Delgado

The South African firm has partnered with Brazilian-Portuguese businessman to look for the crystalline form of carbon in a province fraught with considerable security risks.

Madagascar
QMM limits operations amid heightened tensions between Rio Tinto and Madagascar

The Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has scaled back operations at its QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) mine to a bare minimum. The move is the latest front in an ongoing battle between Rio Tinto and the Malagasy government, and could have a direct impact on the mine's future.

Guinea
Fadi Wazni edges closer to his alumina refinery dream

Guinea : the Franco-Guinean businessman of Lebanese origin Fadi Wazni has received the green light from Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya for his alumina refinery

Botswana
Business barons join forces to invest in mining

Botswana business barons join forces to invest in mining