The revival of the national gem producer Miniere de Bakwanga is stalled and Congo-K’s small-scale diamond gem business is now struggling as well. For want of an agreement with Congo-K’s government, which doesn’t want to sell even a minimum of [.
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Mining companies based in the European Union will be forced in future to publish highly detailed information about their business [...]
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After seven months of bargaining, the Canadian firm Iamgold won a green light from Burkina Faso to begin extending its [...]
The Kibali Gold joint venture which is 45% owned by Randgold Resources (the operator), 45% by AngloGold Ashanti and 10% [...]
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The Simandou mining project in Guinea has produced fallout in the United States. This weekend a 50-year-old French national, Frederic [...]
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The champagne corks are popping at Dharni Sampda, an Indian company whose manganese operations in Ivory Coast regularly stir the [...]
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Botswana’s diamond cutting and polishing trade isn’t headed for extinction once Debswana’s gem resources run out, according to a recent [...]
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The much-decried mining code adopted in September, 2011 (and frozen two months later) was finally amended this week. The new [...]
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