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DRC's cobalt export ban extended by three months

The urgent need for collaboration across the continent as the world accelerates its transition to clean energy is reflected in this year’s African Mining Indaba’s (MI26) 2026 theme, Stronger together: Progress through partnerships (Image supplied)

Investing in African Mining Indaba 2026 theme calls for partnerships

30 May 2025

#AfricaDay: Integrating technical solutions with ESG to advance modern African economies

#AfricaDay: Integrating technical solutions with ESG to advance modern African economies

26 May 2025

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Petra Diamonds to grant Tanzania 16% free carried interest in Williamson mine

Petra Diamonds to grant Tanzania 16% free carried interest in Williamson mine

Nuzulack Dausen 13 Dec 2021

New report: WGC members contributed billions to local economies in 2020

New report: WGC members contributed billions to local economies in 2020

30 Nov 2021

IWiM releases inaugural report detailing achievements, societal impact

IWiM releases inaugural report detailing achievements, societal impact

22 Nov 2021

Congo president demands audit of mining registry to fight fraud

Congo president demands audit of mining registry to fight fraud

Stanis Bujakera 22 Nov 2021

Russia's Nornickel resolves dispute with Botswana, gets compensation

Russia's Nornickel resolves dispute with Botswana, gets compensation

Polina Devitt 18 Nov 2021

Egypt's Sawiris looks to battery metals, awaits nod on gold concessions

Egypt's Sawiris looks to battery metals, awaits nod on gold concessions

Yousef Saba 12 Nov 2021

Congo lawmakers tell Barrick to secure mine perimeter after deadly protest

Congo lawmakers tell Barrick to secure mine perimeter after deadly protest

Hereward Holland 11 Nov 2021

Work set to start on Botswana coal mine in 2022 despite pressure

Work set to start on Botswana coal mine in 2022 despite pressure

Brian Benza 8 Nov 2021

Source: ©Olga Yastremska

Namdeb extends life of mine to 2042

15 Oct 2021

Source: © AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Gold Mine

Obuasi underground ore mining resumes

30 Sep 2021

Uranium: what the explosion in prices means for the nuclear industry

Uranium: what the explosion in prices means for the nuclear industry

Edward Thomas Jones, Danial Hemmings, Simon Middleburgh 27 Sep 2021

Source: ©Solovyov Andriy

ArcelorMittal invests $800m in Liberia

13 Sep 2021

Source: ©jarous

Gold miners commit to climate risk reporting

10 Sep 2021

Source: ©lotsotock

Investing in African Mining Indaba date change

8 Sep 2021

NGOs seek to halt proposed mining activities in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park

NGOs seek to halt proposed mining activities in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park

6 Sep 2021

Source: Catoca Mining Company

Waste from Angola's Catoca diamond mine leaked into waterways last month

25 Aug 2021

Source: ©Phawat Khommai

UK gold miner Centamin seeks buyer for W African project

Shanima A 6 Aug 2021

A coal beacon hill mine in Tete. Joshua Kirshner, Author provided

Mozambique's fossil fuel drive is entrenching poverty and conflict

Joshua Kirshner, Daniela Salite & Matthew Cotton 3 Aug 2021

Zimbabwe finance minister Mthuli Ncube arrives to present the 2020 National Budget at Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, 14 November, 2019. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Zimbabwe sells gold refinery stake for $49m

30 Jul 2021

A worker drives a vehicle at Zimplats' Ngwarati Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi, file. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Implats Zimbabwe unit plans 185MW solar power plants

27 Jul 2021

Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 June, 2016. Reuters/Kenny Katombe

Congo's cobalt monopoly to set price floor for artisanal miners

16 Jul 2021

A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria 18 September, 2020. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo

Factbox: Nigeria's oil overhaul faces last battles over fuel, northern drilling

15 Jul 2021

Source: ©Peter Titmuss

Botswana begins first iron ore mining project

14 Jul 2021

Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 November, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Congo likely to start artisanal cobalt buying

Pratima Desai & Helen Reid 13 Jul 2021

Sandfire's T3 Motheo Mine. Source: Sandfire

Australia's Sandfire gets go-ahead to build Botswana copper mine

8 Jul 2021

A Zimbabwean miner works underground at Metallon Gold mine in Shamva, about 80 km north of the capital Harare, June 14, 2011. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe to allow miners to export portion of their gold

29 Jun 2021

Source: Getty/Gallo

How mining survived the pandemic

Yaa Agyare-Dwomoh 23 Jun 2021

Glencore says to restart Congo's Mutanda mine towards end of 2021

Hereward Holland 22 Jun 2021

A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via Reuters.

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

Brian Benza 17 Jun 2021

Vale to pay $2.5bn to settle liabilities in Mozambique mine corridor

Marta Nogueira 9 Jun 2021

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