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Botswana
Ex-BCL execs mount joint mining comeback

State-run BCL's upper management did not lose time when the company went into liquidation back in 2016. Many of them have combined their skills and banded together to make it big in Botswanan mining.

Subscribers only Mining 03.06.2021

Denmark, Southern Africa
Denmark's Scandi Roll takes a step into African mining

The Danish industrialist Carsten Wernberg-Moller, the owner and managing director of Scandi Roll, incorporated a firm called Scandi Mining. Its role will be to invest in mining exploration and production in Africa.

Subscribers only Mining 03.06.2021

Burkina Faso
Industry knowledge wins over politics for top Bumigeb job

Nicolas Kagambega will run Burkina Faso's mines and mining geology bureau, Bumigeb.© Minister of energy, mines and quarries

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2021

Tanzania
Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Canadian company Montero Mining & Exploration has brought in SRK Consulting's Neal Rigby to assist it in its arbitration case against the Tanzanian state before ICSID.

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2021

Sierra Leone
Government to flaunt mineral wealth in London, Dubai, and Moscow

After presenting the findings of a two-year study of the country's mining resources in Freetown, the Sierra Leone government now wants to tout this potential to the world's investors.

Subscribers only Mining 01.06.2021

South Africa
Court rules BHP and Anglo American must pay $2m Samancor tax arrears bill

Mining multinationals BHP Billiton and Anglo American lost their almost ten-year legal battle with Samancor Chrome Holdings, owned by Croatian Danko Koncar, over who was responsible for paying South African tax authorities 27m rands in tax arrears.

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2021

Africa
Strategia Worldwide and Africa Matters set up joint ESG venture

British consulting companies Strategia Worldwide and Africa Matters have set up a partnership to help firms operating in Africa to deal with their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, particularly in the extractive industries.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Business 31.05.2021

Namibia
Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

A delegation from the Swiss-based Adex Platform led by Danish businessman Teit Ritzau recently visited Windhoek to present its proposed diamond sales platform.

Free access Mining 28.05.2021

Adex Platform's delegation were received by the executive director at the Ministry of International Relations, Penda Naanda (right).

Guinea
Dynamic Mining awaits banks' green light to finalise bauxite finance plan

The Indian firm is in advanced discussions with three banks to finance the debt portion of the $150m needed to move its Bon Ami bauxite mine in Guinea into production. Its majority shareholder is meanwhile prospecting elsewhere.

Subscribers only Mining 28.05.2021

DRC, Egypt
Billionaire Naguib Sawiris goes prospecting in DRC

With his gold operations expanding but his media business struggling, Sawiris was in Kinshasa in late May to cultivate his relations with the ministers of mines and communications.

Subscribers only Mining, Business 28.05.2021

Mozambique
Pathfinder sends out warning to Africa Great Wall directors over heavy minerals permit

Having battled in the courts since 2011 to recover a mining licence that it claims was expropriated by retired FRELIMO general Jacinto Veloso, the British firm Pathfinder Minerals now has to take on a new adversary: China's TZM Resources.

Subscribers only Mining 27.05.2021

DRC, Libya, United States
Washington wraps up criminal action against Och-Ziff over Dan Gertler transaction

The criminal action brought by the US authorities in September 2016 against the New York hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (renamed Sculptor Capital Management in 2019) for corrupting Congolese and Libyan public officials finally reached a conclusion on 13 May.

Subscribers only Mining 27.05.2021

West Africa
Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Junior mining companies listed in Canada or Australia are gobbling up West African gold projects identified by global industry leaders.

Subscribers only Mining 26.05.2021

Sudan
Paris conference provided golden opportunity for Orca Gold

As the Sudanese economy opens up, the Canadian junior will be able to move forward with its Block 14 gold project.

Subscribers only Mining 26.05.2021

DRC
Lubumbashi slag heap locals fume over pollution

Residents who live near the lucrative Lubumbashi cobalt slag heap have complained to the governor of Haut-Katanga province about pollution from the fumes coming out of the plant on the site.

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2021

Burkina Faso
New mines administration appointments disputed internally

Energy and mines minister Bachir Ismaël Ouédraogo has placed his supporters in most of the departments responsible for mining but the head of the key mining geology bureau has still to be appointed. Junior mines minister Aimé Zongo has his own ideas about the best person for the job.

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2021

Energy and mines minister Bachir Ismaël Ouédraogo with junior mines minister Aimé Zongo (left).

Burundi
J. Peter Pham set to visit Burundi for Rainbow Rare Earths

Appointed on 17 May to the board of Rainbow Rare Earths, American diplomat J. Peter Pham is due to travel to Burundi this week to further the company's projects there.

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2021

Great lakes
How more responsible mining can mean more profit

Praised by those advocating more ethical business, decried by others for their prohibitive cost, the accountability and traceability measures presented at the OECD Forum on Mineral Supply Chains are seen as key to profitability by some miners.

Subscribers only Mining 24.05.2021

Inner Circle | South Africa
The behind-the-scenes power players at the redoubtable Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy is used to making the headlines in the South African press over its management of the country's electricity supply network. It also plays a crucial role, however, in the functioning of South Africa's tentacular mining sector.

Subscribers only Mining 21.05.2021

Burundi, United States
Adonis Pouroulis brings on board Trump's special envoy for Great Lakes

The British firm Rainbow Rare Earths welcomed a big-hitting advisor onto its board on 17 May in the person of J. Peter Pham.

Subscribers only Mining 21.05.2021

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Botswana
Ex-BCL execs mount joint mining comeback

Denmark, Southern Africa
Denmark's Scandi Roll takes a step into African mining

Burkina Faso
Industry knowledge wins over politics for top Bumigeb job

Tanzania
Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Sierra Leone
Government to flaunt mineral wealth in London, Dubai, and Moscow

South Africa
Court rules BHP and Anglo American must pay $2m Samancor tax arrears bill

Africa
Strategia Worldwide and Africa Matters set up joint ESG venture

Namibia
Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

Guinea
Dynamic Mining awaits banks' green light to finalise bauxite finance plan

DRC, Egypt
Billionaire Naguib Sawiris goes prospecting in DRC

Mozambique
Pathfinder sends out warning to Africa Great Wall directors over heavy minerals permit

DRC, Libya, United States
Washington wraps up criminal action against Och-Ziff over Dan Gertler transaction

West Africa
Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Sudan
Paris conference provided golden opportunity for Orca Gold

DRC
Lubumbashi slag heap locals fume over pollution

Burkina Faso
New mines administration appointments disputed internally

Burundi
J. Peter Pham set to visit Burundi for Rainbow Rare Earths

Great lakes
How more responsible mining can mean more profit

Inner Circle | South Africa
The behind-the-scenes power players at the redoubtable Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

Burundi, United States
Adonis Pouroulis brings on board Trump's special envoy for Great Lakes

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Botswana Ex-BCL execs mount joint mining comeback

Denmark, Southern Africa Denmark's Scandi Roll takes a step into African mining

Burkina Faso Industry knowledge wins over politics for top Bumigeb job

Tanzania Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Sierra Leone Government to flaunt mineral wealth in London, Dubai, and Moscow

South Africa Court rules BHP and Anglo American must pay $2m Samancor tax arrears bill

Africa Strategia Worldwide and Africa Matters set up joint ESG venture

Namibia Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

Guinea Dynamic Mining awaits banks' green light to finalise bauxite finance plan

DRC, Egypt Billionaire Naguib Sawiris goes prospecting in DRC

Mozambique Pathfinder sends out warning to Africa Great Wall directors over heavy minerals permit

DRC, Libya, United States Washington wraps up criminal action against Och-Ziff over Dan Gertler transaction

West Africa Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Sudan Paris conference provided golden opportunity for Orca Gold

DRC Lubumbashi slag heap locals fume over pollution

Burkina Faso New mines administration appointments disputed internally

Burundi J. Peter Pham set to visit Burundi for Rainbow Rare Earths

Great lakes How more responsible mining can mean more profit

Inner Circle | South Africa The behind-the-scenes power players at the redoubtable Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

Burundi, United States Adonis Pouroulis brings on board Trump's special envoy for Great Lakes

The weekly summary

About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Botswana
Ex-BCL execs mount joint mining comeback

Denmark, Southern Africa
Denmark's Scandi Roll takes a step into African mining

Burkina Faso
Industry knowledge wins over politics for top Bumigeb job

Tanzania
Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Sierra Leone
Government to flaunt mineral wealth in London, Dubai, and Moscow

South Africa
Court rules BHP and Anglo American must pay $2m Samancor tax arrears bill

Africa
Strategia Worldwide and Africa Matters set up joint ESG venture

Namibia
Danish art magnate offers Windhoek platform to bypass diamond middlemen

Guinea
Dynamic Mining awaits banks' green light to finalise bauxite finance plan

DRC, Egypt
Billionaire Naguib Sawiris goes prospecting in DRC

Mozambique
Pathfinder sends out warning to Africa Great Wall directors over heavy minerals permit

DRC, Libya, United States
Washington wraps up criminal action against Och-Ziff over Dan Gertler transaction

West Africa
Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Sudan
Paris conference provided golden opportunity for Orca Gold

DRC
Lubumbashi slag heap locals fume over pollution

Burkina Faso
New mines administration appointments disputed internally

Burundi
J. Peter Pham set to visit Burundi for Rainbow Rare Earths

Great lakes
How more responsible mining can mean more profit

Inner Circle | South Africa
The behind-the-scenes power players at the redoubtable Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

Burundi, United States
Adonis Pouroulis brings on board Trump's special envoy for Great Lakes