SITE VISIT Swakopmund, Namibia — The high-pitched wail from the handheld spectrometer intensifies as the geologist creeps across the dry, rocky terrain of Extract Resources’ (EXT-T, EXT-A) Husab uranium project…
Vancouver — Canaf Group (CAF-V) is planning to gain a toehold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) diamond sector through a majority interest in a private Congolese mining company.
First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQM-L) is quietly buying up shares of fellow copper miner Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQXMF-O) for “investment purposes,” it says.
Capital costs for First Uranium’s (FIU-T) Buffelsfontein gold-uranium tailings recovery project in South Africa hav…
Vancouver – Step-out and deep in-fill drilling at the Sabodala project in Senegal continue to return strong gold gr…
Vancouver – There may be a new mine on the horizon for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as a feasibility…
Nevsun Resources’ (NSU-T, NSU-X) latest deal with Eritrean government has it firmly on the road towards building th…
SITE VISIT Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Flying over lush green folds of land in the eastern Congo, the village huts below, surrounded by groves of banana trees,…
Vancouver — Despite the recent bearish trend in mining indices, financings continue to abound with exploration companies still attracting plenty of capital.
London, U.K. — Africa is endowed with an abundance of natural resources, particularly minerals — hence the “Scramble for Africa” of the pre-colonization era in the 18th and early 19th centuries, whe…
Vancouver — Petra Diamonds (PDMDF-O, PDL-L) is leading a group planning to buy the Cullinan diamond mine in South Africa from De Beers for 1 billion rand (US$149 million).
Diamond Fields (DFI-T) and Australian-based Bonaparte Diamond Mines (BON-A) are finding more diamonds of the coast …
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