Randgold Resources, which earlier this year assumed operational responsibility for the Morila joint venture, is committed to ensuring that the balance of the gold mine’s life is fully exploited for the benefit of all stakeholders, chief executive Mark Bristow told members of the media at a briefing in the Mali capital today. Contrary to what [...]

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There is a great deal of doom mongering and conspiracy theory editorial these days about the mining industry of the DRC and the renegotiation of contracts. What a lot of commentators are doing is to prejudge the outcome of the commission set up to review 60 mining agreements entered into by the para-statal companies of the [...]

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Banro has increased Measured & Indicated mineral resources by 23% at Twangiza to 3.9 Moz. This is one of four Banro projects on Twangiza-Namoya gold belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The belt is over 200 km long, running south from Twangiza, south of Bukavu on the southern tip of Lake Kivu. This great [...]

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Africa is attracting much more mining investment this century, and rightly so. Togo is one country we have not heard much about, but now Lithic has completed the acquisition of Regent Resources Capital Corp (RRCC) and its base metal and uranium assets in Togo, and plans to move them forward.

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 A new mining safety record has been set by De Beers Finsch diamond mine, a mine that is the feature of an Operations Focus article in the January 2008 issue of International Mining.

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