Mali's mining sector may be entering a more promising phase, as evidenced by the partial reversal of permit suspensions in ...

By Portia Crowe and Divya Rajagopal DAKAR (Reuters) -At least four subcontractors employing several hundred people at Barrick ...

FEG’s other ‘high-value asset’ is in Trenggalek regency, East Java. The prospects in several promising locations within a ...

Currently, there is a high global demand for strategic minerals. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the market size doubled in recent years, ...

Although views to the contrary have occasionally been aired – sometimes underpinned by what seems to be solid empirical research hinting at African involvement in the drawing up of the continent’s ...

Wagner Group was little more than a rumour—a small, silent band of Russian mercenaries moving through the shadows of the ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa’s Sahel region – notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – have put pressure on ...

The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. GLOBAL MARKETS Asian stocks wavered on ...

Canada-headquartered Barrick Gold on Wednesday issued a sharp rebuke to the government of Mali as tensions over taxes ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Malian authorities have shut the Canadian miner Barrick Gold's office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of taxes, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, in the ...

A major gold discovery in central Vietnam has revealed 12 mines containing over 10 tons of gold and 16 tons of silver, according to the Mid-Central Geological Division. The discoveries were made ...

Prosecutors in Brazil’s Amapá state have warned of an illegal gold mine operating just 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from second-highest known tree in the Brazilian Amazon — an 85-meter (279-foot ...