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THE Kimberly Process (KP) investigating team that visited Zimbabwe last week has produced a damning interim report implicating the government in human rights violations and looting of gems at Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, The Financial Gazette can reveal.
The army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will remain there to maintain 'law and order', a state controlled newspaper said on Friday.
The Government has banned the use of water from Tigithe River in North Mara, Tarime District, it has been learnt.
DE BEERS has requested Government to forego one of its biggest contributions to state revenue - royalties from Namdeb.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed into law 'An Act establishing the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI).'
The future of Namibia's mining industry might lie in the uranium sector as exploration and mining for this mineral has been increasingly active in the country, according to Joseph Iita, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
The Government yesterday said it will take appropriate action on the North Mara Gold Mine row.
URANIUM producer Uranium One's share price leapt 7,7% to R19 on the JSE yesterday after it announced an 18% rise in uranium output from its Kazakhstan mines in the June quarter over the March quarter.
SA HAS put together a list of black candidates for a new chairman of Anglo American, including business magnate and former union leader Cyril Ramaphosa, a government source said yesterday.
WAGE negotiations taking place between unions and the Chamber of Mines, though protracted and characterised by some strong union statements, have so far been far less militant than those in the construction, doctors' or road transport sectors.
FACTORY output dived 17,1% in the year to May, while mining output plunged 14,5%, official data showed yesterday, suggesting there is little relief in sight for the economy's two most embattled sectors.
A confidential memo by the head of a delegation of the Kimberley Process, which recently wrapped up an investigation into the reports of violence and killings in Marange, has detailed the 'horrific violence' used by the army against civilians there.
THE TOWNSHIP of Konongo in the Asante Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region was reportedly thrown into a state of anarchy yesterday morning, when some angry galamsey operators clashed with a joint military/police patrol team, resulting in the injuring of several people.
Zimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation under the Kimberly Process (KP).
The Chinese aggression to control markets in Africa and gain a foothold on the mineral wealth of the continent, is gaining notoriety, especially in Ghana, as foreign nationals, believed to be Chinese, are taking advantage of the remoteness of the Wassa Amenfi East District, and advertently exploiting the poverty and low illiteracy levels of the surrounding village communities, are engaged in ...
DE BEERS and its joint venture partner in the Gahcho Kué diamond project in Canada, Mountain Province Diamonds, had renegotiated the terms of their agreement, Toronto- listed Mountain Province said this week.
The plight of the people According to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the Newmont Akyem project, the proposed open pit would be exactly 900 metres wide, 2,560 metres long and 480 metres deep. Approximately, the mining project would generate 130 million tonnes of waste rock, which would have to be disposed off, and this has implications for the livelihood of the people in the area. ...
Diamonex Mine's judicial manager, John Stevens has said that the High Court has not yet made a ruling on the liquidation of the Lerala diamond mine.
Authorities of the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Technological Development launch reflection on new takeoff.
SOUTHERN African diamond producer Petra Diamonds, which is listed on London's AIM exchange, expects diamond prices to continue strengthening gradually, it said in a trading update yesterday.
THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday sidestepped strident calls from within its alliance for the nationalisation of mines.
Zimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation by the Kimberly Process (KP).
A multi-billion shilling mining company has been forced to suspend production and lay off hundreds of employees.
African Eagle Resources Plc will seek a partner for its Dutwa nickel project in Tanzania in about a year, South Africa's Business Day reported, quoting the company's operations director, Mr Christopher Davies.
PRESSURE mounted on Anglo American's board yesterday to entertain the merger proposal from Xstrata after one of the group's biggest single shareholders, Old Mutual , told Reuters that if Xstrata presented an attractive offer Old Mutual would evaluate it.
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