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Trade union Solidarity has rejected what it describes as the skimpy wage increase offer of 3% by Metorex's Consolidated Murchison Mine outside Phalaborwa during the first round of wage negotiations.

SRINIVASAN Venkatakrishnan, CEO of Vedanta Resources, said he was "hoping and praying" that justice would prevail in Zambia where the company is fighting an...

UGANDA is hoping to re-open a copper mine last operated in the Seventies under the leadership of dictator, Idi Amin Dada, said Reuters citing Evelyn...

ORION Minerals opted to raise capital earlier rather than later after announcing today its share had been suspended ahead of an announcement regarding the...

A REVIEW of a $7.9bn tax claim levelled by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) against Toronto-listed copper miner, First Quantum Minerals, could take up to...

Bureaucracy in China has held up many-a-mining deal and, in some cases, led to investor disappointment - a factor behind the discount in Palabora Mining.

Zambia is on track to mine 750,000 tonnes of copper this year and expects to raise output to a million tonnes by 2012.

ZAMBIA will fine and break ties with mining firms that fail to operate in compliance with the southern African country’s mining legislation, said Reuters...

EAST Africa's Uganda is planning to restart its Kilembe copper mines which have been on care and maintenance for the best part of 40...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would bring an end to illegal mining following an fatal accident on June 27 at the premises of...