1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (437+ words) One of the main new provisions establishes that mining cooperatives formed by small-scale operators or artisanal miners will be given “priority in access to Land Use and Benefit Titles for Artisanal Mining”. In return, the regulations stipulate that the cooperative…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (506+ words) The information was provided to Lusa today (18 August) by the national director of Hydrocarbons and Fuels at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), Felisbela Cunhete, on the sidelines of the ministry’s 11th Coordinating Council, which ran from Saturday to…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (558+ words) The African critical minerals developer said acid leaching tests carried out by SGS Lakefield recovered 85% of the gallium into the leachate while showing good selectivity against silica. Separate ore-sorting work by Comex also identified a potential route to pre-concentrate gallium…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) Thousands of unregistered miners known as “zama zamas” operate in South Africa, scavenging abandoned mines for gold and other minerals in arduous and often perilous conditions. “Fourteen illegal miners, mostly Basothos, died during a rockfall,” police spokeswoman Colonel Adele Myburgh…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (246+ words) As a result of this situation, over 100,000 tonnes of heavy mineral sands remain stranded for nearly three months. Dingsheng minerals has a factory budgeted at 700 million US dollars, occupying an area of 3,000 hectares, consisting of two production lines with the…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (827+ words) Mining lithium for batteries is a growing part of South Africa’s plan to use the global shift towards green energy to revive its economy, but now it faces a challenge from thousands of angry farmers who fear losing productive land…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (176+ words) Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Estêvão Pale, on Thursday launched the Conference on Value Addition Based on Available Mineral and Energy Resources (CAVAME-d), which will take place from 19 to 24 October in Nacala, Nampula province. Estêvão Pale said that…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (165+ words) The situation had deteriorated so severely that, in late September last year, the Council of Ministers ordered the suspension of all mining activities in Manica province. A Domingo reporting team visited the Chicamba reservoir on Thursday afternoon (23 July) and found…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (348+ words) Australian mining firm South32 estimates extraordinary costs of 104 million euros ($117 million) stemming from the operational shutdown of Mozal—Mozambique’s largest industrial facility—where production fell by 30% and sales dropped 22% in fiscal year 2026, which ended on June 30. According to the group’s quarterly…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (263+ words) Mining operator Vulcan has invested approximately 140.6 million euros ($160 million) in the electrification of the Moatize mine in central Mozambique. The project will generate up to 300 megawatts of power, drastically cutting diesel consumption and reducing environmental impacts. “We are installing a…...