Africa Top Stories

Dubai’s ENOC denies gold-for-oil barter talks with Ghana

Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold producer, last week ordered large mining companies to sell 20% of the metal they refine to the central bank.

Bloomberg News | November 29, 2022 | 8:51 am

Mali suspends issuance of mining permits until further notice

Mali is one of Africa's top gold producers with industrial…

Reuters | November 29, 2022 | 7:43 am

Consensus forecast is for two years of stagnant copper prices

Copper is down 20% so far in 2022 and a…

Staff Writer | November 28, 2022 | 3:08 pm

Sibanye-Stillwater to spend $616m advancing Finnish lithium project

The Keliber mine is expected to be Europe's first fully…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2022 | 7:13 am

Ghana in talks with Dubai oil refiner to barter gold for fuel

Ghana last week ordered mining companies to sell 20% of the metal…

Bloomberg News | November 28, 2022 | 6:50 am

S. African ‘diamond rush’ unearths only quartz crystals, officials say

Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, officials said on Sunday.

Reuters | June 20, 2021 | 12:50 pm

Anglo commits to provide eDNA data to protect biodiversity

Anglo American has become the first mining company to subscribe to the IUCN’s eBioAtlas.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 18, 2021 | 6:09 am

Sudan signs nine concession deals for gold, copper mining

Sudan took steps last year to open up trade in the precious metal further to private investors.

Reuters | June 17, 2021 | 1:51 pm

MAPPED: These 25 projects will set the copper price for decades

A 6 million tonne copper supply gap will open up by the mid-2020s but projects needed to plug that gap face uphill battles.

Frik Els | June 17, 2021 | 1:30 pm

China’s top bauxite supplier set to boost output as rail starts

Guinea, which has the world’s largest proven reserves of bauxite, is poised to expand production.

Bloomberg News | June 17, 2021 | 9:00 am

CEO vacuum at AngloGold turns it into world’s worst mining stock

Shares of the world’s third-largest gold producer have dropped 30% in the past year.

Bloomberg News | June 17, 2021 | 7:58 am

Fire at Kinross Gold’s Tasiast mine suspends milling operations

No injuries in but the cause of the Tasiast mill fire under investigation.

Henry Lazenby | June 16, 2021 | 11:36 am

One of only four 1,000 carat-plus diamonds ever found dug up in Botswana

DeBeers-Botswana joint venture has recovered a 1,098 carat diamond from Jwaneng mine, the world’s richest diamond mine by value.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 16, 2021 | 8:50 am

Large methane leak detected over South Africa coal mining region

The cloud was spotted about 125 kilometers east of Johannesburg in an area where Sasol Ltd. has several coal mines.

Bloomberg News | June 16, 2021 | 7:47 am

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