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Shanta Gold, a gold producer based in East Africa, has reported its audited final results for the year ended 31 December 2020 for its East African properties. Its properties include the New Luika Gold Mine and the Singida Project in Tanzania, as well as the West Kenya Project in Kenya. …

Advanced field services, transformer chemistry testing, reliability solutions – these are some of the extra services offered by condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, in addition to traditional used oil analysis following recent expansion. The company’s advanced field services (AFS) division incorporates specialist monitoring techniques such as rope testing, technical compliance and …

The World Bank (WB) estimates, for instance, that production of minerals like graphite, lithium and cobalt could grow by 500 percent in the next three decades to meet demand for clean energy technologies. This comes on the backdrop that mining remains a vital part of a low-carbon future, a fact …

Condition monitoring technology is advancing so fast that ongoing training for staff working in the machinery maintenance arena is essential in order to stay abreast of current trends. So says WearCheck’s technical manager, Steven Lumley, who plays an instrumental role in developing the company’s training schedule as well as ensuring …

Construction at Adyabo joint venture gold project in Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region is expected to start early this year, this is according to East Africa Metals expects The development was scheduled for November when COVID-19 travel restrictions were supposed to be lifted, but the state of emergency caused by the …

This year, East Africa Metals (EAM) made good headway in developing its Adyabo gold property which includes the Mato Bula gold-copper project and Da Tambuk gold project. The company has revealed is not only focussed on developing its Ethiopian gold projects as fast as possible to take advantage of global …

Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, recently invested several million Rand in four brand new laboratory instruments for their flourishing transformer division laboratories in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. WearCheck managing director Neil Robinson says the company’s investment in the equipment has relieved some of the current sample volume pressure and reduced …

The Toronto-based mining company Barrick Gold, which operates three mines in the African country through Twiga Minerals, has announced that it will invest $8 million on exploration in Tanzania this year. The company also revealed that it has been granted 10 new exploration licenses in Tanzania, where it was until …

Gold has overtaken tourism as Tanzania’s biggest foreign-exchange earner, while Barrick’s joint venture with the Tanzanian government paid its first cash dividend of $250 million earlier this week. The East African nation’s gold-mining industry is showing signs of a renaissance following a crackdown on smuggling and the settlement of a …

The spotlight is set to be on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) at the Africa Mining Forum which is set to kick off from the 16-20 November 2020. A testament to this notion is the fact that the organisers of the event have also announced a unique digital ESG …