THE current fuel crisis in the country has not affected the mining sector, Chamber of Mines president Nathan Chishimba has said.

FIRST Quantum Minerals, owners of Kansanshi Mine and Bwana Mkubwa, have announced copper production of 93,500 tonnes for the third quarter and 275,300 for the first nine months of 2009.

The Wassa Association of Communities affected by Mining (WACAM) has commended the Brong Ahafo Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency Mr. Isaac Osei for his sense of professionalism and courage exhibited in the recent spillage of cyanide by Newmont.

POLICIES that give effect to the constitution could be threatened by a compensation claim brought against SA by foreign mining companies, say four nongovernmental organisations (NGOs).

THE benchmark industrial index added an inconsiderable 2,33 percent whilst the mining index lost 20,77 percent during the third quarter of the year, succumbing to restricting liquidity conditions.

GOVERNMENT has cancelled the Zimbabwe Power Company's mining concession in Hwange after the Zesa Holdings subsidiary started coal mining in partnership with another firm without complying with full regulatory requirements.

Beijing's Foreign Ministry officials are energetically distancing themselves from a US$7 billion minerals deal announced on 9 October by the increasingly isolated military regime in Guinea with the Hong-Kong based China International Fund. Without some fast diplomatic footwork, China could

Several inconvenient facts are undermining President Joseph Kabila's ambitious 'zero tolerance' anti-corruption campaign. Recent reports highlight the failure of efforts to reform Congo's state and the continuing pillage of its mining industry by local and foreign interests. On 26 September,

Publish What You Pay has congratulated all stakeholders in Liberia's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) following the country's designation by the EITI Board as EITI 'Compliant' on 14 October 2009.

THE MMD leadership on the Copperbelt has suspended Kafulafuta member of Parliament George Mpombo with immediate effect.

South Africa-based mineral explorer, Goldstone Resources, has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Ghanaian company, Cherry Hill Mining, to develop the Homase prospecting licence, in the Bekwai district of Ghana.

TanzaniteOne Mining Limited will fund development projects in Simanjiro district, Manyara region provided its officials are allowed to be part of the supervisory teams.

Demand for diamonds has started to stabilise as De Beers flagship mines in Botswana are now operating at 80 percent of capacity, De Beers Botswana CEO, Sheila Khama, has said.

MERAFE Resources said yesterday that ferrochrome output at its joint venture with global miner Xstrata fell 47% for the nine months to September compared with the same period last year, but the venture had now returned more furnaces to production

BSE-listed A-Cap Resources says the company will require a maximum of P1.6 billion to advance from exploration to mining at its Letlhakane and Serule uranium resources in the Central District.

BCL Mine and other development partners are mulling over the feasibility of establishing a P1.9 billion sulphuric acid plant, which experts say will not only solve the long-running concern of high sulphur emissions from the mine, but will also develop

The intervention of the European Union's (SYSMIN)facility System for Stabilising Export Earnings from Mineral Products has played a pivotal role in the continuation of the operations of BCL Mine during financially difficult periods in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The long-running debate around pollution in Selebi-Phikwe has again come to the fore due, in large part, to the preliminary results of studies into how emissions from BCL Mine are impacting the copper and nickel mining town.

The top brass of Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) has gathered here this week to come up with a five-year strategic plan to be adopted at the union's next council meeting.

Relative to the levels produced in the corresponding period of 2008, as the world economic crisis continues impacting on demand, lower diamond production is expected during the remaining quarters of 2009," the bank said.