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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.

DRC
South Kivu governor courts Chinese investors

With Chinese firms investing in numerous projects in the Congolese side of the Copperbelt over the past months, Claude Nyamugabo, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

Central Africa
Kagame and Magufuli launch railway for 3Ts and nickel

Tanzania will extend its railway line connecting Dar es Salaam and Isaka to reach Kigali, offering an unhoped-for opening for Rwandan and Burundian miners.

Free access Infrastructure, Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Kinsevere paralysed by battle of the service companies

MCSC and NB Mining, both of whom are subcontractors of MMG, owner of the Katanga copper mine Kinsevere, are in the midst of a heated legal battle.

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

Botswana
City Financial invests in Cradle Arc copper

In January, British investment firm City Financial Investment Co became [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Prominent Chinese investor Wei Chen invests in Tiger Resources

As Africa Mining Intelligence had anticipated (AMI 407), in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

Guinea
Evens Saint Clair has a blast in gold

American businessman Evens Saint Clair, who registered his mining firm [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2018

DRC
Is China's Sinomine gearing to buy Kipoi copper?

As its struggles to balance its books and deal with operational hitches, Australian concern Tiger Resources may be looking at selling its Katangan copper mine Kipoi.

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

Namibia
Clive Jones' switch to copper and cobalt a flunk?

In early January, Australian junior Cazaly Resources reported it was disappointed with the results of a drilling campaign carried out [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.01.2018

DRC
Moise Katumbi's demands for NB Mining rejected in Paris

The offshore companies that had requested for the sale of Necotrans' mining unit to Pascal Beveraggi to be cancelled, have had their case rejected by a French court.

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

Eritrea
Geologist Bereket Berhe's homecoming

In early December, Bereket Berhe, Eritrean-born Canadian geological engineer was due to travel to Asmara to officially submit his request [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

Africa
Sidney Yankson pin points best deposits for rich Chinese investors

Private equity fund Ghana Capital Partners (GCP), supplied with wealthy Hong Kong investors' money, has been increasingly looking into Africa's [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

DRC
Glencore boss safeguards interests in Kinshasa

Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Swiss trading firm Glencore, a key [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

DRC
Barbados financier Wayne Fields moves into Copperbelt

American financier Wayne Fields, chairman of Barbados-based firm DGM Financial [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

Spotlight | DRC
Africo Resources' shareholders want Och-Ziff to pay up

As Africa Mining Intelligence revealed (AMI 404), a group of former shareholders of Canadian junior Africo Resources, which previously owned the Katanga copper project Kalukundi, is preparing to file for damages in the US against American hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital [.

Subscribers only Mining 12.12.2017

Zambia
Argonaut seeks $10 million for Lumwana copper

To get its exploration programme moving forward, the Australian junior is scouring the markets to find $10 million.

Subscribers only Mining 12.12.2017

DRC
Yves Kabongo, king of mining human resources

Congolese entrepreneur Yves Kabongo, former right-hand man for Israeli businessman [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.12.2017

DRC
Africo Resources' shareholders want Och-Ziff to pay up

Private equity fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which accepted in September 2016 to pay a $413 million fine to an [...]

Subscribers only 04.12.2017

DRC
[Mines and Money] Lubumbashi slag heap: Shamrock loses an initial battle against Gecamines

It is the subject on everyone's lips in the wings of the Mines and Money conference, which is being held [...]

Subscribers only 29.11.2017

Zambia
[Mines and Money] ZCCM-IH: Zambia: Courted by Sapir, Lusaka plays hard to get

With a very sizeable stand and two ministers in attendance, the Zambian government is pulling out all the stops to [...]

Subscribers only 29.11.2017

Zambia
Glencore not made to pay for poor quality copper

The supreme court has rejected the claim from a former subcontractor of the Mufulira mine for payment of copper extracted in the 2000s.

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2017

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