Tag: Minerals
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s Mining Future: Why Climate Action and Economic Growth Must Move Together
South Africa’s mining industry is confronting a critical challenge: reducing emissions and strengthening climate resilience while attracting the investment needed to grow the sector, protect jobs and support economic development. At the Minerals Council South Africa’s inaugural Climate Change Day of Learning, industry leaders argued that climate ambition and economic growth must reinforce one another.
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🇬🇭 World Bank Targets Fivefold Increase in Critical Minerals Financing as Ghana Emerges in Global Supply-Chain Strategy
For Ghana, the opportunity is potentially significant—but the strategic objective should extend beyond digging minerals out of the ground. The central question for the next five years may be whether Africa can use the new wave of critical-minerals investment to build industries around its resources, rather than simply supplying the resources to industries elsewhere.
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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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🇬🇭🇨🇳 Ghana Seeks Deeper China Mining Partnerships Focused on Processing and Technology
Ghana is pressing Chinese mining investors to move beyond raw mineral extraction toward processing, technology transfer, skills development and local supply chains.
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🇲🇿 In Mozambique, a group of illegal miners killed two police officers guarding a ruby mine.
“A group of about 40 illegal miners came to the gates of the Montepuez Ruby Mining. They attacked Mozambican police officers at the gates and killed two,” said a statement from the British mining company Gemfields, which owns the site. The company reported that the attack is related to a clash between district immigration authorities…
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🇬🇭Asante plans to spend $6.4 million on gold exploration at Chirano and Bibiani mines in Ghana
Asante Gold is investing more than 9 million Canadian dollars in gold exploration at the Chirano and Bibiani mines in Ghana. CEO Dave Anthony noted that these funds will accelerate exploration work and support long-term planning. At Chirano, 15,000 meters of drilling are planned by the end of 2025 to assess resources and search for…
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🇧🇫 West African Resources agrees to increase Burkina Faso’s equity interest in projects to 15%
Australia-listed West African Resources, which owns and operates the Sanbrado, Kiaka and Toega projects in Burkina Faso, has agreed to increase the State’s free-carried equity interest in the projects to 15%, from the 10% previously held by the State. This change is in line with the new Burkina Faso Mining Code, which was adopted in…