Jul 09, 2020
According to business website Statista.com, Africa produced about 700,000 Kgs of gold in 2019. Interestingly, the continent has the capacity to refine more than twice that entire production.…
Jul 06, 2020
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…
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…
Jun 25, 2020
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…
Apr 13, 2020
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…
Apr 01, 2020
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…
