Category: Mining
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🇨🇩 DRC Seeks to Revive Oil Exploration at Lake Albert as Kinshasa Looks Toward Uganda and China
The Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking to revive oil exploration on its side of Lake Albert after roughly 15 years of stalled development. President Félix Tshisekedi’s government is looking toward closer cooperation with Uganda and China as Kinshasa attempts to unlock the region’s petroleum potential and connect eastern Congo to wider energy and infrastructure…
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🇿🇦 Stilfontein: The Miners Trapped Underground and the Rescue That Came Too Late
A deadly confrontation in Stilfontein exposed the human cost of South Africa’s illegal gold-mining economy, as hundreds of miners became trapped underground during a government crackdown. Survivors recount hunger, fear and a desperate struggle for rescue—raising difficult questions about mining, poverty, criminal networks and the future of Africa’s mineral wealth.
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🇬🇭 The Burial of Kojo: Gold, Betrayal and the Ghosts Beneath Ghana
Film: The Burial of KojoYear: 2018Country: GhanaDirector: Blitz BazawuleGenre: Drama / Magical RealismLanguage: English and AkanReview: Panafrican.email There are films that tell a story, and then there are films that create a world. The Burial of Kojo belongs to the second category. Blitz Bazawule’s 2018 Ghanaian film is an intimate story about family, betrayal, memory…
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🍁 Mountain Province Gives Up 49% Gahcho Kué Stake as Diamond-Market Pressure Deepens
Mountain Province Diamonds is transferring its 49% stake in Canada’s Gahcho Kué diamond mine to De Beers as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating mine-related liabilities, stabilizing its finances and securing new funding amid prolonged weakness in natural-diamond prices.
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🇩🇰 The Ambassador: A Controversial Journey Into Africa’s Diamond Trade
The Ambassador takes viewers into the Central African Republic’s diamond trade through Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger’s unconventional undercover investigation. Although the film is not set in the DRC, its questions about mineral access, foreign investment, diplomacy and African resource value chains remain relevant to today’s Congo mining debate.
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.
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🇨🇩 KoBold Metals uses AI to search for critical minerals in Congo
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in Africa, African Business, Bauxite, Geopolitics, Gold, Investment, Iron Ore, Lithium, Minerals, MiningKoBold Metals is using artificial intelligence, geological data, satellite imagery and thousands of soil samples to search for lithium and other critical minerals around Manono in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project highlights a new phase of African mineral exploration — where AI and geological intelligence are becoming as strategically important as the resources…
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🇬🇭 13 Suspected Illegal Miners Arrested in Osino as NAIMOS Intensifies Galamsey Crackdown
NAIMOS has arrested 13 suspected illegal miners at Osino in Ghana’s Eastern Region and destroyed mining equipment found at the site, in another operation targeting the persistent return of galamsey activities.
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🇳🇬 🇺🇸 US Mining Funds Turn Their Attention to Nigeria as Abuja and Washington Advance Critical Minerals Deal
Nigeria is attracting growing U.S. mining interest as Abuja and Washington advance a proposed critical-minerals cooperation agreement. The initiative could open new investment in lithium and other strategic minerals while raising questions about processing, local value addition and Nigeria’s role in global mineral supply chains.
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🇱🇷 Putu Iron Ore Project Moves Back Toward AMR as Severstal Reverses Position
Liberia’s Putu Iron Ore Project moves back toward AMR after Severstal says its binding offer is superior to Planet One’s proposal, reopening the path to development in Grand Gedeh.