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The State Minister for Energy and Minerals Development, Sarah Achieng Opendi, has urged women to embrace mining and take strategic leadership roles in the sector. The minister’s powerful call is particularly an expression of solidarity with and morale booster to women miners who continue to bear the brunt of the …

Gold exports from Ethiopia increased four-fold year-on-year to 24,700 ounces during July and August, this is according to a Bloomberg report. This was after the central bank offered higher prices to mop up gold that may otherwise be smuggled. Ethiopia is the latest country in Africa to start buying up …

Built on innovation since its inception over three decades ago, global explosives leader BME – a member of the JSE-listed Omnia Group – paves the way for mines to leverage the latest technologies for ever-greater efficiencies and productivity. “Harnessing technology as quickly as it develops – and applying it to …

The Government of Tanzania has officially published regulations concerning graphite concentrate exports. The updated regulation continues the policy of maintaining a minimum graphite concentration of 65% total graphitic carbon and payment of royalties as conditions of export. The 2020 regulations revoke 2019 The Mining Guidelines of 2019. Black Rock has …

Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, recently relocated their head office and main laboratory from Pinetown to Westville, just outside Durban. The company’s Durban transformer laboratory also moved to the same premises. WearCheck’s new laboratory and offices are at No. 4 The Terrace, Westway Office Park, Westville. Managing director of WearCheck, Neil …

Lausanne, Switzerland, Pix4D, technology pioneer and market leader in industrial photogrammetry software solutions, announces that it is starting a joint innovation project with SAP® to open up the market for drone-based, digital 3D inspections for telecommunications companies. SAP, a global leader in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software, has included Pix4D …

The news about the fading of the hot spring has been circulating on social media with some people blaming cement producer -CIMERWA for triggering the degradation while using detonators to extract stones. Institutions in charge of Water Resources, Disaster Management, Environment Protection and Mining are probing the disappearance of hot …

Accidentally millionaire, Saniniu Laizer, has discovered yet another giant violet-blue stone weighing 6.3 kilograms (13.9 pounds). This is within two months of becoming a millionaire overnight in June after his mining company discovered two rough Tanzania gemstones worth $3.4 million and believed to be the largest in the world. Laizer, …

The Governor of the Central Bank of Congo (BCC), Deogratias Mutombo, believes that the current depreciation of the local currency is caused by the lack of repatriation of foreign earnings by mining companies into Congolese monetary circulation. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have indicated they will tighten controls …

Tanzania gold miner Shanta Gold has completed the US$14.5 million acquisition of West Kenya across the border in Kenya, from Barrick Gold (now a 6% Shanta shareholder), and plans to start infill and extension drilling soon to try to build out the current resource of 1.2Mt grading 12.6gpt (1.18Moz) and …