August 02
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Oguaa Lagoon Is a Gold Mine: It Can Generate $14.4 Million Annually - Says Imani Ghana
Ghanaian Chronicle
Fosu Lagoon is a vast expanse of water that lies between the Robert Mensah Sports Stadium and the Elmina road in Cape Coast. Since time immemorial, it has been the fishing ground... Read more »
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Border Officers Coached On Curbing Mineral Smuggling
Daily News
THE tanzanite mineral can easily be smuggled through airports because, being a non-platinum group metal (PMG), the blue gem cannot be detected by metal-detecting booths. Read more »
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Transnet Boost for SA Coal Exports
SA Info
State company Transnet is to introduce a 200-wagon rail service running directly from coal mines in Mpumalanga province to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in KwaZulu-Natal,... Read more »
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Police Quarters Get Facelift Thanks to North Mara Mine
Daily News
IF there is a time to smile when a good house has been all your dream and then it came true, then some police officers in Tarime District, Mara Region believe the turn is theirs. Read more »
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Mining Industry Players to Storm Sixth WACA Summit
Ghanaian Chronicle
Mining sector companies are completing their participation arrangements for the annual extractive industry gathering known as the 6th WaCA Mining Summit & Expo 2013, the West... Read more »
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Bindura Nickel Corp Reports U.S.$12,9 Million Loss
Zimbabwe Independent
Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) reported a US$12,9 million loss attributable to ordinary shareholders in the year to March 2013, up from a US$12,8 million loss in the prior year... Read more »
August 01
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Woes of Gold Mining Industry [analysis]
SAIIA
South Africa's gold mining industry is in a perilous condition. In the second quarter of this year alone, the gold price plummeted $220 (R2 153) an ounce, partly in the wake of US... Read more »
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ZCCM-IH Minority Shareholders Warn of PF Mismanagement
Zambia Reports
Zambia's largest state-owned copper mining interest ZCCM-IH has been accused of poor governance and ineffective management by the Patriotic Front (PF) government by minority... Read more »
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Sirleaf Lauds Progress Made At Bong Mines, As China Union Commissions Phase One
FrontPageAfrica
At a ceremony to commission the first phase of China Union's iron ore mining operations in Bong Mines, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was impressed with the level of work done in... Read more »
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Num and Chamber of Mines Met At the CCMA
COSATU
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has today met with the Chamber of Mines 's gold producers together with three other trade unions at the Commission for Conciliation,... Read more »
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Workers Reject Firm's Move to Lay Them Off
The Star
The Canadian Base Titanium mining company in Kwale plans to lay off more than 100 security workers, a move workers have rejected. Read more »
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Minerals Agency Launches Bulletin
Concord
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources, Mrs. Fatmata Mustapha, yesterday officially launched the 'Sierra Leone Gem' - the official newsletter of the... Read more »
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The Star
THE Bombolulu quarry where two men died after a landslide occurred on Tuesday evening had been close indefinitely after a similar incident happened two years ago, the Star has... Read more »
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'Safer Mining Will Check Re-Occurrence of Lead Poisoning'
Leadership
With the announcement that 100 per cent remediation exercise had been completed in Bagega, Anka local government area, Zamfara State, following the 2010 Zamfara lead poisoning,... Read more »
July 31
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Coal of Africa's Exports Halve Due to Ressano Garcia Line Closure
AIM
The South African based company Coal of Africa has announced that its exports in the second quarter of this year were down by 49 per cent. Read more »
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Museveni Stops Gold Mining in Buhweju
New Vision
President Yoweri Museveni has directed that firms involved in gold mining in Buhweju district should stop immediately. Read more »
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Refugees Turn Gold Miners in Remote Grand Gedeh County
New Republic
In their droves, hundreds of Ivorian citizens ran from their abodes across the Liberian/Ivorian border when marauding so-called mercenaries who endeavored to seek the dethronement... Read more »
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Oil Exploration Laws in the Pipeline
New Times
Rwanda could have a law governing its upstream petroleum business by mid-next year if everything goes according to plan, officials at the Rwanda Natural Resources Authority have... Read more »
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Reduce Spending, Minister Urges Mine Investors
Times of Zambia
MINING investors have been urged to cut down on expenditure to maintain operation costs instead of resorting to job cuts whenever copper prices on the international market plummet. Read more »
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Search for Quarry Victims to Resume Today
The Star
A rescue and search operation resumes today at the Mombasa quarry where police confirmed two people were killed and others trapped. One person was rescued with serious injuries... Read more »
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Mwadui Mine to Increase Output By 40 Per Cent
Daily News
PETRA's Williamson Diamond mine annual output is expected to soar by over 40 per cent in the next three years to 3.6 metric tonnes or 216,000 carats, thanks to a 21 million US... Read more »
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Liberia Govt
At a ceremony to commission the first phase of China Union's iron ore mining operations in Bong Mines, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was impressed with the level of work done in... Read more »
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The Herald
BINDURA Nickel Corporation warned of potential material uncertainty on its status as a going concern if it fails to obtain short-term bridging finance and execute a revised mining... Read more »
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Why Chinese, Indians Don't Respect Nigerian Mining Laws
Daily Trust
Sunday Ekosin is the National President, National Association of Progressive Miners, Nigeria. He has been operating in the mining industry for more than two decades. In this... Read more »
July 30
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Anglo Coal Set to Poison the Waterberg [analysis]
SACSIS
An unholy alliance has come together on a Limpopo farm within the Waterberg District, about 60km from the town of Lephalale and a short drive from the border with Botswana. Read more »
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