The Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe - An Overview
The struggle for power in Zimbabwe is inextricably linked to the discovery of "the richest diamond field ever seen by several orders of magnitude"...
Nationalisation of Assets Versus Socialisation of Wealth - By Saliem Fakir
A while back, Deputy Minister of Transport, Jeremy Cronin penned a column in Umsenbenzi, the online publication of the South African Communist Party, where he wrote...
Stop Abusing Mining Community Rights - By Clement Kaku Asiedu Menlah
Recently there were news reports of a standoff between the Yayaso community and personnel of the Ghana Police Service. The incident was triggered by the refusal of the community to move out of...
Mozambique's Coal Mining Sector: Building for Boom By - Christy Tawii
Mozambique has gone through turbulent political cycles, after experiencing two decades of a civil war,to become one of the fastest growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. This has been...
Region Must Act to End Great Lakes Mineral Smuggling - By Nyambura Githaiga
Mineral smuggling in the Great Lakes region is a threat to the security and economies of states in this part of Africa. While not a new phenomenon, its continuation will deny the region of potential economic growth
Mining profits soar, but Africans are still poor - By Yao Graham
In 2009, African heads of state adopted the African Mining Vision. Its key objective is the transformation of Africa’s mining sector into a catalyst of broad-based growth...
South Africa’s Coal Demand and Supply Trends - By Wonder Nyanjowa
South Africa’s energy intensive economy is overwhelmingly dependent on coal. This fossil fuel provides about 80% of the country’s primary energy needs
Commitment to delivering value-added projects - Compiled by Moses Chege Kasaija
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, operates two mining projects in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana, approximately 290 km northwest...
Land Nationalisation - By Stephen Greenberg
ANCYL President Julius Malema’s recent comments on land nationalisation have caused quite a stir. The owners of wealth thought this topic had been put to rest with the passing of...
Indigenisation Without Discouraging Foreign Investors - By Charles Shonayi
Foreign owned firms operating in Zimbabwe with a net asset value of US$1 were given a deadline of up to the 25th of September 2011 to submit compliance plans to the gazetted Indigenisation...
A Resource Blessing Never A Curse - By Noel T Ngangira
A belief that I find to be fundamentally flawed is the so-called “resource curse of Africa”. That belief is based on an equally flawed notion that because of the abundance of mineral wealth in Africa...
Lessons on Transparency in the Extractive Industry Sector - By Uche Igwe
I recently had the rare privilege of listening to and speaking with Senator Benjamin L. Cardin of the Unites States Senate. He was a guest lecturer at an investment conference organised...
Threat To Mineral Wealth & Human Health Addressable - Compiled by Chege Moses Kasaija
As the science of Acid mine drainage prediction, prevention and management continues to evolve and develop, mining companies, scientists, advocates, governments, environmental...
AMD needs to be uppermost on every miners agenda - By Andrea Zeelie
Companies involved in the extractive industries have long been accustomed to factoring environmental impacts and risks into their operational and business plans. For the past decade and...
Clarify and implement existing mining laws, not nationalisation - by Peter Leon
The recent debate around mine nationalisation began in June 2009 when the President of the African National Congress Youth League,Julius Malema, called for...
Nationalisation of mines is synonymous with a developmental state - by Magdalene Moonsamy
The debate on the nationalisation of mines has gained intense attention from all quarters to the extent that such a severe attempt to undermine and deactivate the integrity...
Beak advangeo®, New Technology for spatial data analysis
Changes and advancements in spatial data analysis technology prompted Beak Consultants, a Germany based Geological Consultancy and Software Development Company to develop advangeo...