The popular Junior Indaba, held in Johannesburg earlier this month, highlighted once again that South Africa is losing ground on the exploration and junior mining front – with exploration being discouraged by a range of factors. Unlike many other jurisdictions, it appeared that South Africa did not actively promote itsContinue Reading
Glencore, has signed a deal with China’s GEM Co, committing to sell approximately a quarter of its annual cobalt production over the next five years. The leading cobalt producer will sell at least 61,200 tonnes of cobalt hydroxide to GEM between 2020 and 2024. This is as Beijing moves toContinue Reading
AJN Resources Inc. is set to acquire a number of exploration permits in the highly prospective Kilo Moto Gold Belt in North-East DRC, which hosts Barrick’s Kibali Gold Mine. This is after the firm entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The deal followsContinue Reading
The Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) is currently holding out hope that the forthcoming 2020 national budget will help restore the mining sector’s productivity and return Zambia to its previous position as one of the world’s leading copper producers. Furthermore, the Chamber has reiterated that Zambia is set to recordContinue Reading
The assets are from the end-of-mining contract of Majwe Mining Joint Venture and the auction will be conducted on-site in Jwaneng, Botswana on Friday July 8, 2022 from 09h00. Webcast bidding will be available for overseas buyers. On offer include; sought-after Caterpillar 777D 85 000-litre water trucks, Caterpillar 834H andContinue Reading
AVZ Minerals is set to invest $17.9m in early works and exploration drilling at the Manono Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). AVZ managing director, Nigel Ferguson revealed the report and said a portion of a recent A$75m capital raising, the funds are expected to help the firmContinue Reading
The maiden mineral resource estimation exercise at Mpama South in Democratic Republic of Congo nears completion. Alphamin Resources reported that the assay results are expected to be announced later this month. To date, the miner has completed 24 235 m of drilling in 89 drillholes at its Democratic Republic of Congo-basedContinue Reading
The Angolan ambassador to China, João dos Santos called for investment in mining in his country. This was part of the presentation of new concessions. Santos was speaking on behalf of the Angolan minister of Mineral Resources and Oil, at the third technical presentation of the mining concessions of KassalaContinue Reading
Of the US $ 6.5 billion contributed to Mali’s national economy, a total of US $ 2.6 billion was allocated to taxes, royalties and dividends. Barrick Gold’s contribution to GDP in 2018 was approximately 6%” said president and chief executive Mark Bristow said during a press conference. Twenty years after MorilaContinue Reading
One of the largest producers of copper and cobalt, Shalina Resources and a commodity trading giant, Trafigura have signed a US $600million financing agreement to considerably increase supplies of high-grade cobalt hydroxide and copper cathode from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The financing agreement will enable Shalina Resources, through its DRC subsidiary, Chemaf,Continue Reading
