Dangote Group, Nigeria’s largest company, is struggling with a constricted supply of foreign-exchange in the West African country and is relying on its international cement operations and export-credit agencies to get around the shortage. “The forex situation is extremely tight in Nigeria,” group executive director Devakumar Edwin said on Wednesday. …

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo’s Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said he has dropped plans to change the mining code in Africa’s biggest copper producer after opposition from mining companies. “The mining code, which is currently in place, will stay in place,” Mr Kabwelulu said at a speech to investors in Cape …

ZCCM Investment Holdings PLC (ZCCM-IH) says it has embarked on an ambitious diversification programme which will see its interests extended to the manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and real estate sectors. ZCCM-IH Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Pius Kasolo told delegates to the 2016 Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town …

Plunging copper prices have pushed the copper industry into a quandary, with global demand deteriorating to an even worse extent than many people realise, Bernstein senior research analyst Paul Gait told delegates at the 2016 Investing in African Mining Indaba this week. Gait noted, however, that copper was fundamentally scarce …

Underground mining services company Murray & Roberts (M&R) Cementation, together with Enterprise Generale Malta Forrest SA (EGMF), will be setting up a joint company in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to serve the mining industry in Central Africa. Johannesburg-based M&R Cementation, with a range of capabilities covering the full …

Gold mining company Acacia Mining is looking to go beyond Tanzania into Kenya and West Africa. Acacia CEO Brad Gordon told the 2016 Investing in African Mining Indaba that the company’s growth had stemmed from a focus on business fundamentals, people and relationships. Gordon spends a lot of time on …

Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani expected 2016 to be the most challenging year for the mining industry, stressing in a copy of a speech delivered at the Investing in Africa Mining Indaba, in Cape Town, on Monday, that things could get worse before getting better. He noted that the depth …

A new, independent, mineral resource estimate for Ivanhoe Mines’ joint venture Kipushi mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has shown measured and indicated mineral resources in the big zinc zone of 10.2-million tonnes. “This has exceeded our expectations and we are convinced that significant additional mineral resources can …

South African mobile capital equipment distributor Eqstra has, through its Mozambican subsidiary, signed a memorandum of agreement with Minas de Benga Limitada to dispose of all plant and equipment assets used in the provision of mining services during a five-year contract at Minas’ Benga coal mine, in Tete. This was …

LUSAKA – Zambia has resumed the issuance of new mining licences, renewal and transfer of rights which it suspended in August last year, its mines minister said on Thursday. Mines minister Christopher Yaluma said the government had since the suspension established new licensing regulations to improve the administration of mining …