Mining

The Gabonese Gold Refinery (ROG), the first gold processing plant in Gabon, has come on stream, as the oil producing country pushes for a more diversified economy. With a refining capacity of 7 to 10 tonnes of gold per year, the plant is a joint venture between the state-owned Equatorial Mining Company (SEM) and Alpha […]

Thor Explorations Ltd, a Canada-based mineral exploration company with interests in Nigeria, Senegal and Burkina Faso, has launched a Nigerian subsidiary to explore the country’s lithium potential as Africa’s biggest economy seeks to diversify its economy beyond oil and gas. Newstar Minerals Ltd, Thor’s newly formed Nigerian subsidiary, is looking to develop its first large-scale […]

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa, and Xcalibur Multiphysics, the worldwide leader in airborne geophysics, have announced their intention to partner on mapping, developing and co-financing natural resource projects that will spur minerals and critical raw materials beneficiation in Africa. The partnership was announced at a signing ceremony today at […]

Last week, Rio Tinto announced the incorporation of the TransGuinean joint-venture (Compagnie du TransGuinéen, in French) that will develop and operate new critical rail and port infrastructure in Guinea. An International Partnership The company is a partnership between the Government of Guinea (15%), Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS, 42.5%), and Rio Tinto Simfer (42.5%). Its incorporation […]

American energy solutions provider Genser Energy has announced the closing of a $425m funding package to support the expansion of its midstream gas business in Ghana. The company is already a provider of captive power solutions to several of Ghana’s gold mines and is currently expanding across West Africa. The 8-year, $425m funding package includes […]

De Beers Group announced yesterday the signing of two Mineral Investment Contracts (MICs) with the Government of Angola for licence areas in north-eastern Angola. Both contracts formalize the award and exercise of mineral rights over a period of 35 years each, allowing De Beers Group to explore and mine diamonds in the southern African country. […]

Tronox Holdings, one of the world’s leading producers of high-quality titanium products, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) this week with South African IPP SOLA Group for 200 MW of solar power capacity. The project is expected to be commissioned by Q4 2023 and supply clean energy to Tronox’ mines and smelters in South […]

TotalEren and Chariot have announced today the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South African platfinum group metals and chrome producer Tharisa Plc. The agreement paves the way to develop, finance, construct, own, operate and maintain a 40 MWp solar PV project at the Tharisa mine in South Africa’s North West Province. […]

Following the signing of the Framework Agreement last January, the Government of Tanzania has now issued a special mining licence (SML) for a period of over 30 years for the Kabanga Nickel project, covering the full life of the project. The Kabanga Nickel Project holds the world’s largest development-ready nickel sulphide deposit and will produce […]

Last week in Lison, Angola’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, Petroleum & Gas and Angola’s national diamond company Endiama signed a mining investment contract with Rio Tinto for the Chiri diamond concession in the Lunda Norte Province in northern Angola, at the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The negotiations had been ongoing since […]

AVZ Minerals has announced this morning the signing of a transaction implementation agreement (TIA) with Suzhou CATH Energy Technologies of China. Under the agreement, CATH will earn a 24% equity interest in the joint-venture set up to develop the Manono Lithium and Tin Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In return, CATH is […]

Over the weekend, Thor Explorations has poured first gold from its Segilola Gold Mine in Nigeria’s Osun State. This is a critical milestone for the project where commercial production is expected in September. Once fully commissioned, the plant will run at a processing rate of 715,000 tonnes per annum, targeting about 85,000 ounces of gold […]