Mining

stone mining site

How the draft Mining and Minerals Bill (2018) handles Development Minerals

The Bill seeks to formalise and regulate the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining sector, including the commercial exploitation of building materials and construction materials, collectively referred to…

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Battery Minerals

Are battery minerals the new gold?

Africa is bleeding value and wasting away an opportunity to cash in on a ‘new’ class of minerals driving energy transition.Battery minerals are a group of minerals and metals from which key…

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Tanzanite

Tanzanite: Tanzanian miner becomes overnight millionaire

A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the…

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local gold mine

Shrunk markets, low prices push artisanal miners to seek alternative livelihoods

The national lockdown over the covid-19 pandemic has effectively sealed off airports, roads and border entry points, causing gold prices to fall by up to 40 percent. Uganda’s largest gold refinery…

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OJok

Companies should treat artisanal miners as partners, not competitors

At the time I picked interest in mining, the ASMs were being evicted from their operational areas by the LSMs. Ojok Geoffrey Odur is a Lawyer with Gem Advocates who has cut his teeth representing…

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ASM

Subsistence miners lose out as coronavirus crushes local gold prices

“We are praying to God to end this disease so that we can continue with our business,” said Tanzanian miner Selamani Juma Salum. Informal gold miners from South America to Africa are selling gold at…

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