Guinea’s Doumbouya calls on mining sector to help alleviate country’s poverty
GUINEA'S Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of an elite army unit that overthrew President Alpha Conde, has asked mining firms to help alleviate poverty,...
Gemfields to return to profit after mines recover from Covid-19 lockdowns
GEMFIELDS will return to profit in the six months ended June following a harrowing 2020 in which auctions were all but wiped out by...
Guinea takes first steps to forming transitional government
GUINEA'S new military rulers took the first steps towards formation of a transitional government following the September 5 coup that ousted President Alpha Conde,...
West African power bloc ECOWAS suspends Guinea following coup
THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West Africa's 15-member political and economic bloc, suspended Guinea's membership on Wednesday and called for the...
Why are we asking for mining policy certainty when it’s policy...
COBALT, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel and the platinum group metals (PGMs): these are some of the key minerals for a low-carbon future. And sub-Saharan...
ARM doubles capital outlay for 2022 as commodity price gains boost...
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) has announced a 50% increase in capital expenditure for its 2022 financial year in the first of three years of...
Guinea’s Alpha Condé overthrown by military coup
THE government of Guinea’s recently re-elected president Alpha Condé has been overthrown by a military coup, according to reports on Sunday.
However, Guinea’s defence ministry...
Base Resource ekes out additional life at Kwale mineral deposit
BASE Resources said a prefeasibility study of the further extension of the Kwale mineral sands deposit in Kenya found it was economically viable to...
Trust deficit: If the mining sector is taking ESG seriously, why...
LET’S get the obvious out of the way: is mining really changing? Or are the billions of pixels spent in lengthy exposition of ESG...
TFR “simply under attack” as armed groups of 25 people disrupt...
SOUTH African mineral exports have experienced more disruption, according to Transnet, the government-owned logistics and freight company.
In a statement today, it said Transnet Freight...