Zim mulling scheme to incentivise beneficiation

The Zimbabwe government plans to introduce incentive schemes to encourage investment in minerals beneficiation and has already called on major mining companies and financial institutions to partner indigenous investors to foster value-addition...

S Australia targets A$10bn in mining output

South Australia was well on its way to meeting its target of producing some A$10-billion worth of mineral products by 2020, the state’s Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Tom Koutsantonis, said on Monday. Speaking at the South Australian...

SA pushing for African beneficiation framework to tap commodity boom

South Africa plans to use its position as the current convener of the Council of African Ministers of Industry to develop a common continental framework for extracting greater value from the prevailing minerals boom, Trade and Industry Minister Dr...

Kimberley Metals to develop Sorby Hills with Chinese firm

ASX-listed Kimberley Metals would form a joint venture with China’s largest lead producer, Henan Yuguang, to develop the Sorby Hills lead/silver/zinc project, in Western Australia. The company said on Monday that Yuguang would buy a 15% stake...

Inmet gets PNG approval to swap mine stake for royalty

TSX-listed Inmet Mining has received approval from the National Executive Council of Papua New Guinea, for the company's plan to exchange its 18% holding in Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) for a 5% net smelter return on revenues from the Ok Tedi...

Inmet starts output at Las Cruces, may swap Ok Tedi stake for royalty

Canadian base-metals miner Inmet Mining has reached an understanding to exchange its 15% interest in Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML), which operates the Ok Tedi copper mine, in Papua New Guinea, in return for a 5% net smelter return royalty on...

Point of Correction

Editor –

In your cover story, “Highest Bidder Takes it”(Mining Weekly, March 6–12, 2009), your reporter seriously misrepresents what I said to him. I never said (and would never have said) that I believe that “the then Minerals and...

Auctioning mineral assets is way to go, says adviser to Liberia

Former Mintek CEO and one-time Department of Minerals and Energy official Dr Paul Jourdan played a role in making the South African government the custodian of mineral rights in South Africa. Until the new regime was enforced, mineral rights were...

Auctioning mineral assets is way to go, says South African who advises Liberia

Former Mintek CEO and one-time Department of Trade and Industry DDG Dr Paul Jourdan played a role in making the South African government the custodian of mineral rights in South Africa. Until the new regime was enforced, mineral-rights were the...

Private sector to be Zambia's main minerals exporter with introduction of new mining laws

The Zambian government reiterated its intention to revise mining regulations and taxes this year in order to further promote foreign investment in this sector.

Private sector to be Zambia’s main minerals exporter with introduction of new mining laws

The Zambian government reiterated its intention to revise mining regulations and taxes this year in order to further promote foreign investment in this sector.

Company Announcement: Stability Agreements for Monterrico�s Peruvian subsidiaries

Monterrico is pleased to announce that the Government of Peru has issued a Ministerial Resolution to approve two Stability Agreements which will be entered into with Monterrico's Peruvian subsidiaries: Rio Blanco Copper Limited and Minera...