West Africa is emerging as the next significant iron-ore province after Australia’s rich Pilbara and is attracting the attention of global majors and the Chinese, says the London-Aim-listed West African Minerals. Major diversified miners …
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West Africa emerging as the new Pilbara
Fairtrade Foundation to certify African gold
The group will work with eight mining groups in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to address dangerous working practices and environmental damage in small-scale gold mining.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=146833&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
Wish you were mine
The true extent of Africa’s vast wealth of resources is hard to guess. Geologists have picked over most of the rest of the globe in search of minerals, yet huge swathes of Africa remain largely …
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Ghana sets up committee to review mining contracts
Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold mining state, has set up a committee to review stability investment agreements with mining houses. Mining companies that have had stability agreements in Ghana include London-listed AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third …
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Energy colonialism in the Congo
The Congo River embodies an immense amount of energy – enough to supply a significant portion of Africa’s electricity requirements. The river is being touted as a perpetual source of clean, green power that could …
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Facing up to challenges of Africa’s extractive sectors: clarion calls from Zimbabwe & Ethiopia
“The fundamental reality of Africa is that it is integrated into a global system of kleptocratic capitalism characterised by primitive accumulation or ‘rent seeking’ by the rich nations and within each nation by the rich …
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Mining to Undermine Access to Land in Africa
Abdulai Darimani urges a shift from aid-driven approaches to Africa’s economic development to a transformative agenda forged by concerted social action. Otherwise, he says, Africans will fail to escape from persistent exploitation.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10858…
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Britain backs ‘publish what you pay’ rule for oil and mining firms in Africa
Britain is throwing its weight behind European efforts to force oil and mining companies to publish details of every penny they pay to governments in poor countries where they operate.
George Osborne told his fellow …
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Statement from the AlterNATIVE Mining Indaba 2011
“We, members of Civil Society, having gathered at the alternative Mining Indaba, in Cape Town on 7th -9th February 2011, comprising faith based organisations, NGOs and community based organisations from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, …
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What happened at the 2011 World Social Forum?
You might not have noticed it, but between 60,000 and 100,000 delegates attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar, capital of Senegal, earlier this month. At the same time, of course, many thousands of …
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