Source link President Cyril Ramaphosa says Pretoria is “tired of criminals operating with impunity” and undermining the country’s economy South African security forces arrested dozens on Thursday in the latest crackdown on illegal mining. The joint military and police operation in the Soul City settlement near Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, also resulted in the seizure […]
Source link India is set to hold its first-ever auction of deposit blocks containing critical and strategic minerals for exploration purposes, local media reported on Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Mines, the first tranche of auctions will launch on Wednesday, when 20 ‘blocks’, or deposits with evidence of minerals such as lithium and graphite, […]
Source link A proposed tracing mechanism will hurt the continent’s producers, according to the multilateral body Kimberley Process The Group of Seven (G7) nations’ plan to track and trace Russian diamonds will bring “irreparable harm” to African producers, according to Ahmed bin Sulayem, who heads up the multilateral regulatory body Kimberley Process, the Financial Times […]