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Battery Metals

Lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium and nickel, of which Africa boasts large reserves, are highly sought after for their capacity to store energy as batteries.

Burundi
Government gears up to attract mining investors

To change its image among the foreign miners and to try to attract them to the country, the ministry of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2017

Mozambique
Anorthosite, Chinese firm Africa Great Wall’s latest trick?

One of the most active mining companies in Mozambique, China’s Africa Great Wall, is currently looking for alternatives to traditional [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2017

DRC
Local NGOs blast Chinese employers in Katanga

Congolese NGO lambasts Chinese cobalt transformer Congo Dongfang, a major employer in the mining sector in Lubumbashi.

Free access Mining 21.03.2017

Madagascar
West plotting sanctions concerning ACD

Diplomats representing foreign countries in Madagascar remain up in arms about the introduction of an Advanced Cargo Declaration (ACD) by [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.03.2017

Mozambique
Stan Bharti slips quietly into Maputo

Indo-Canadian magnate Stan Bharti is preparing to break into the Mozambican mining sector through the creation of a subsidiary of his Forbes & Manhattan fund.

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Spotlight | Madagascar
Minister Zafilahy determined to showcase his country’s potential

Ordered late last year by Madagascar’s mines and oil minister Ying Vah Zafilahy to revive a plan to change mining legislation, the director-general for mines at the ministry, Pamphile Rakotoarimanana has a real challenge on his hands:

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
Morocco’s king burnishes his piece of Katanga’s copper

Casting a lustful eye on West Africa’s gold, Morocco’s Managem group is equally developing a copper project at Pumpi.

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Tanzania
Juyan Feng lands top Chinese customers for Graphex

Consultant Juyan Feng, a former Rio Tinto executive, worked hand in hand with Graphex Mining to sell its graphite to Chinese firms that dominate the branch.

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Namibia
Auroch Minerals fleshes out its lithium portfolio

With backing from Rare Earth Minerals, Auroch Minerals is in full expansion mode in Namibia.

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Africa
Boivin stages get-together for French-speaking miners

Leading lights among miners in French-speaking Africa rubbed shoulders at a meeting dubbed Franco-Mine during the Investing in African Mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

DRC
Kinshasa opens one-stop shop for Katanga's exports

In early February, Congo-K’s economy minister, Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, flew [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Mozambique
La nouvelle pépite électrique des miniers du Nord

Plusieurs miniers actifs dans le nord du pays viennent de s'associer pour créer à Nampula la firme de production électrique [...]

Subscribers only Énergies 14.02.2017

Angola, États-Unis
Les actionnaires, seuls à maintenir la fronde contre Cobalt

Le 9 février, le Department of Justice américain a clos [...]

Subscribers only Énergies 14.02.2017

Nigeria
Peter Goldsmith, un lord pour défendre Shell sur la pollution

Afin d'obtenir, fin janvier, le rejet de la plainte lancée [...]

Subscribers only Énergies 14.02.2017

Tanzania
Cancelling mining licences may not be feasible

Despite earning public support, President John Magufuli’s decree cancelling licences [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.02.2017

Ivory Coast
Compagnie Miniere du Bafing can count on high-placed friends

Set up in Abidjan late last year, the Compagnie Miniere du Bafing (CMB), which hopes to make its mark in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Botswana
Tsimako presses ahead on Khoemacau copper program

Intent on kicking off production on the Khoemacau copper project in Botswana in 2019, Johannes Tsimako, regional boss of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Zimbabwe
New stakeholder for Asa Resource

In late January, the Bank of East Asia (BEA), the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Tanzania
Shedd reshuffles the cards at Intra Energy

Appointed in late December, the new boss of Intra Energy [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Tanzania
Nichol still hoping for his golden parachute

The chief executive of the Australian junior Consolidated Africa, Kevin [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

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