IronRidge Resources raises £5.4m in share issue for Ghana lithium project
IRONRIDGE Resources, a company listed in London, said it had raised £5.4m before expenses after placing just over 27 million shares with shareholders at...
Mali expects to start producing lithium in 2020 as mineral discoveries...
WEST Africa's Mali is positioned to become an important producer of lithium, a mineral increasingly in demand owing to the proliferation of lithium ion...
Perseus “encouraged” by drilling aimed at life of mine extension at...
PERSEUS Mining declared itself "encouraged" by a drilling programme which has raised the prospect that the life of its Edikan mine in Ghana could...
Zimbabwe gold miners to retain 55% of earnings in dollars as...
ZIMBABWE threw its gold mining firms a lifeline, according to Reuters which said today companies would be allowed to retain 55% of their earnings...
Emerald market recovering, says Gemfields after Singapore auction generated $28.4m
THE results of a recent auction in Singapore, in which revenue of $28.4m was generated in emerald sales, reflected the recovery underway in the...
Lucapa Diamond takes year-to-date sales to $24.5m from Lulo mine
LUCAPA Diamond Company, which mines in Angola, said year-to-date diamond sales totalled $24.5m following the latest parcel of 3,411 carats which sold for $4.2m....
Shipping rates slide as trade war may finally have caught up...
THE ongoing trade war between the US and various other economies has finally come home to roost in the commodities industry with analysts saying...
Ghana hopes to raise $750m in London-destined minerals, oil fund listing
GHANA hopes to raise up to $750m through an initial public listing in London of a fund that will hold the country's shares in...
Katanga warns revenue at risk if copper export row with DRC...
TORONTO-listed Katanga Mining warned its earnings would be negatively affected if a dispute over copper exports from its Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Kamoto...
Exploration spend by world’s miners rises for second year in 2018...
EXPLORATION spend by the world's mining sector was nearly $10bn in 2018 as the hunt for metals used in electric vehicle batteries hotted up,...