East African Mining News Unearthing Mining Opportunities in East Africa

The return of licenses to 241 companies and semi-industrial diamond mining cooperatives in seven provinces of Angola will allow the creation of at least 20,000 jobs, the national director of Mineral Resources said on Friday in Dundo. André Buta, who spoke at the end of the delivery of 31 of …

The UK Takeover Panel has approved a further extension to the deadline for Barrick to make a firm offer for Acacia – first extended to 9 July 2019 and now to 19 July 2019. On the back of this announcement, Barrick notes that it is also reviewing a report by …

As mining companies increasingly look to new technologies to improve their productivity, they are starting to think differently about how they approach digitisation and automation. The prolonged slump in commodity prices – along with no significant increase in productivity gains – has meant that mines have re-calibrated their cost structures, …