Lawyers retained in 2012 by Guinea's mines minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana with the blessings of president Alpha Conde to scrutinize the country's mining agreements are furious. The government is refusing to pay them. Only a few like DLA Piper have [.
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Commercial kimberlites are getting rare in Lesotho which supplies a quarter of the world’s biggest diamonds. Paragon Diamonds is the [...]
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Discovered and explored by Gold Fields and Cluff Gold, Mpokoto’s gold now seems likely to actually be mined. Lying in [...]
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African Potash, the company that owns the Dinga potash project in Congo-Brazzaville, has cut back on its operations because of [...]
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The Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) is under pressure ever since Congo-K’s prime minister, Matata Ponyo, ordered it to share-out of [...]
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Barely had Kumba Iron Ore recovered from its setback on the Faleme iron project in Senegal than the South African [...]
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On the verge of being developed by Nyota Minerals last summer, the Tulu Kapi gold project had to suddenly fold [...]
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Fully engaged in restoring the zinc, lead and silver mine at Namib since 2009, North River Resources is girding itself [...]
The British mining company Pathfinder Minerals has hired a heavyweight to try to tip the balance in the legal conflict [...]
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