Vedanta says it will fight any attempt by Zambia to sell Konkola Copper Mines

The Australian-listed company expects to secure more than $55 million in funding for the first phase of the Arcadia Lithium project.

Zimbabwe will remove the clause from a mines amendment bill now before parliament, the mines minister said on Friday.

The coloured gemstone sector has no system, globally at scale, that allows gemstones to be confidently traced from mine to market.

Key to closing the deal is Lonmin maintaining its net cash position and achieving certain production targets.

The testing is part of the definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the project, poised to become Nigeria's first large-scale gold mine, and which is expected to come online in early 2020.

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office plans to open a formal bribery investigation into Glencore and its deals with Israeli billionaire and former partner Dan Gertler.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been trying to shore up foreign investor interest in a country rich in mineral resources but starved of capital.

Tanzanian gemstone miner Tanzanite One has agreed to pay compensation and overdue taxes to the government after violations led to losses in public revenues.

The 450-kilometer (280-mile) track will link the southwestern town of Mayoko to a port at Pointe Noire.