mining

‘We will no longer tolerate the raw exportation of our wealth’: Zimbabwe launches Africa’s first lithium sulphate plant

Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe’s first plant to process clean-energy metal lithium – of which it is Africa’s top producer –... Read more

27 Jul

Abidjan – Jihadist groups behind deadly violence in the Sahel over the past decade are increasingly exploiting mines to... Read more

23 Jul

Johannesburg – South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe on Wednesday ruled out a future in politics, dismissing speculation that... Read more

23 Jul

Johannesburg – De Beers announced on Monday it will pause production at South Africa’s largest diamond mine for two... Read more

14 Jul

Johannesburg – Security forces rounded up more than 200 mostly undocumented foreign nationals allegedly involved in illegal mining in... Read more

8 Jul

Tervuren – From century-old maps to meticulous field notes, Belgium is sitting on a trove of geological records on... Read more

3 Jul

Mongbwalu – In the mines of Mongbwalu, the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the northeastern Democratic Republic Congo,... Read more

24 Jun

Kinshasa – Coltan mined by armed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is being smuggled out through Rwanda... Read more

11 Jun

Lobito – The chief executive of the Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) project to link southern African mines to an... Read more

15 May

Yaoundé – Nearly 200 illegal artisanal gold mining companies, most of them foreign-owned, have been uncovered in central and... Read more

14 May