Minerals

While the global focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues looks to phase out coal as an energy resource, the prospects for major coal producers like South Africa remain...

Artisanal miners could make Congo world’s fourth largest cobalt producer Congo’s Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC) could become the world’s fourth-largest cobalt producer in 2021, a new Roskill report states. According to the market...

Inside the plan to make Nigeria Africa’s mining hub New reforms set to turn nation into investors’ haven By Udenna Orji Arc. Olalekan Adegbite, Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel...

Uses of minerals in everyday life Jul 6, 2020 by Komatsu Staff Writer Tagged Under: Innovation and Technology Sustainability In 2014 a researcher noticed some unusual spots on the rock of a...

Some of the biggest names in gold mining are now present in Cote d'Ivoire Heading north out of Abidjan, the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, one thing that immediately strikes travellers...

3 APR 2019  BY: ANDONI MAIZA LARRARTE & GLORIA CLAUDIO-QUIROGA It was confidently billed at the time as the "deal of the century". The Sino Congolaise des Mines (Sicomines) was the most...

The government of the Central African Republic has launched a full overhaul of the country’s alluvial diamond mining sector. Going forward, the CAR’s government will stand for a bold new...

London Stock Exchange -listed rare earths element miner Rainbow Rare Earths is now one of only a handful of rare earth mine producers outside China. It has successfully transformed from...

By Duncan Miriri, REUTERS                         \ JULY 30, 2019 NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi’s gold, tin and rare earth minerals exports have overtaken tea and coffee as the major source of foreign...

Author Philipp Sandner Gold mines in isolated areas of Africa’s Sahel region have become a welcome source of income for terrorists. Recent attacks in Burkina Faso show that security forces in...