The inauguration of Newmont Mining’s new giant mine at Ahafo - it houses 12 million ounces of gold reserves - once again raised the question of whether Ghana should build a refinery. The objective would be to enable Africa’s second-ranking [.
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Africa Mining Intelligence has seen the latest statistics on monthly diamond exports from Sierra Leone. Foreign traders still largely dominate the sector. According to the list, the HM Diamonds firm owned by Lebanon’s Hishma Mackie is in pole position among [.
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Zimbabwe tycoon John Bredenkamp, who used to be close to president Robert Mugabe, was arrested at his home near Harare [...]
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Mining companies are continuing to call on the expertise of geologist Roger Laine who worked for 15 years for Cogema, [...]
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Vice president for private equity at Cordiant Capital Inc., a company that manages Canadian funds specializing in emerging markets, Piers [...]
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American television evangelist Pat Robertson plans to resume his prospecting operations in Liberia through his firm Freedom Gold. Incorporated in [...]
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Consultant James Pratt has joined the British explorer Uranium Resources as a non-executive director. Pratt is highly familiar with the [...]
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President of the Diamond Dealers Club of South Africa, Ernest Blom has been appointed vice president of the World Diamond [...]
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Bad news for Sierra Leone’s mineral resources minister Mohamed Swaray Deen. His eldest son, Alpha Yahah Deen, and a certain [...]
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A former geologist for Hellman & Schofield, David Princep, was appointed chief geologist for Paladin Resources, an Australian junior which [...]
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Barrick Gold has just endorsed a project to build a [...]
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Paladin Resources of Australia has launched a takeover bid for [...]
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Diamdel South Africa, an affiliate of De Beers which buys [...]
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KGHM in Poland has dropped a project to mine copper [...]
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The Zimbabwe government is thinking of vetoing the visit of [...]
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Xtrata, the world’s leading producer of ferrochrome, a chrome-based alloy [...]
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Mamady Youlah, the managing director of Guinea Alumina Corp (GAC), [...]
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A recent visit by United Nations officials has discovered that [...]
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Set up in September, 2005, Target Resources raised GBP 4 [...]
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As a sign of the times, Moto Goldmines, an Australian [...]
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The European Investment Bank is scheduled to grant a EUR [...]
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The Canadian junior Platmin which owns four platinum projects in [...]
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Spintelligent is staging the 8th East African Power and Mining [...]
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Terrapinn is organizing a meeting on investment in commodities in [...]
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