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Copper

Copper plays a key role in the economies of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, and is produced throughout Africa, from Morocco in the north down to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa in the south and Uganda and Eritrea in the east.

Zambia
Moxico hungry for more copper

British junior Moxico Resources, which already holds three copper and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.03.2018

Spotlight | DRC
Albert Yuma ignites revolution with MRI Trading and Scorpion

Immediately after returning from the Investing in African Mining Indaba week in Cape Town, Albert Yuma Mulimbi, chairman of Gecamines, stuck straight in to turning his threats to revise the state-run firm's mining contracts (AMI 409) into action.

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

DRC
Richard Muyej's marketing coup on Kolwezi mines

Lualaba governor Richard Muyej has been throwing his all into having Kolwezi, capital of the province formed from the breakup [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

Ghana, Tanzania
Zijin Mining's African star continues to rise

Chinese group Zijin Mining, chaired by the influential Chen Jinghe, is driving to develop its African gold portfolio in Ghana and Tanzania.

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

Guinea
Winning tacks on manganese, nickel and cobalt to bauxite

Asian groups have expanded their view of Guinea as merely [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

DRC
Kabwelulu aims to nip tensions between Copperbelt diggers and operators in the bud

To prevent diggers from resorting to further attacks on projects [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

DRC
Moore Stephens lambasts mines' financial transparency record

The report on the state of Congo-K's extractive industry for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2018

Uganda
Salim Saleh, entrepreneurial general and Chinese ally…

On 13 February in Kapeeka, General Salim Saleh, the half-brother and military adviser of President Yoweri Museveni, played host to [...]

Subscribers only 02.03.2018

Niger
Issoufou tampers with code to stay in uranium race

To make sure the country catches the wave of recovering commodity prices, Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou's government has decided to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.02.2018

Angola, DRC
Trader Shaze Tareli saves Kisenge manganese

A vast operation is underway to evacuate by rail 10,000 tonnes of manganese blocked since the Angolan civil war.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 27.02.2018

DRC, Zambia
WSP hooks up the electricity grids of the Copperbelt

The 472 km and 330 kV interconnection being installed by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.02.2018

DRC
Africo's ex-shareholders take on Och-Ziff… and the DoJ!

As predicted by Africa Mining Intelligence (AMI 405), on 20 February a group of ex-shareholders in the mining company Africo [...]

Subscribers only 20.02.2018

Spotlight | Angola
Lourenco's dissection of Dos Santos mining architecture

The sweeping changes brought throughout the mining sector by new president Joao Lourenco have kick started the mining community in action. But to ensure it isn't all just political posturing and it can actually secure foreign investment, the new administration [.

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

DRC
Albert Yuma backs partners into a corner

The audit of Gecamines' partners will be completed in March, opening the path for the company to renegotiate its joint venture contracts.

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

Africa
Jean-Francois Mercadier rolls out mining commando unit

Managing partner at the Parisian office of British law firm DWF and an expert in African mining, French lawyer Jean-Francois [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

DRC
NB Mining vs MCSC dispute settlement referred

The hearing to settle the dispute between two mine services [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

Togo
TFC adds phosphates to its belt

Marc Dederiwe Abli-Bidamon, Togo's minister of mines and energy, who [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

Zimbabwe
Hunter Capital counsels Prospect Resources

Australian junior Prospect Resources, which develops the Arcadia lithium project [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2018

Angola
Indaba 2018: Lourenco restores interest after Dos Santos era

Investors flocked to the forum on mining opportunities in Angola held on February 6, as part of the Investing in [...]

Subscribers only 06.02.2018

DRC
Klaus Eckhof and Nigel Ferguson's Katangan empire

Founded in late May in Australia to explore gold in eastern Congo-K, junior Okapi Resources has signed off a deal [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

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