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Tanzania, renowned for gold production seeks to diversify from the mining industry’s over-dependence of gold business into other minerals in the market such as coal, nickel and uranium to maximize on its direct foreign investment in the Eastern African State, a report said. The British market intelligence firm, Business Monitor …

Bimha mine, Zimbabwe’s leading platinum producers dropped production of the metal by 50 percent recently after a major collapse occurred underground in Zimplats, Ambriefonline reported. The collapse art one of the operations underground cist the company 50 percent of the total metal production. The report did not elaborate when the …

Strike afflicted and Anglo American owned Platinum miner, (Amplats) was capitalising its mechanised mines and might spend up to R100-billion (about K50 billion) on them plus Amandelbult in the next ten years, its chief executive officer, Chris Griffith told Mining weekly, Monday. At the company’s announcement of highly acceptable financial results …

Global advanced training simulator provider ThoroughTec Simulation will be demonstrating their new CYBERMINE continuous miner and dragline simulators at Electra Mining Africa 2014 between 15-19 September. Both of these simulators were designed and built at ThoroughTec’s state-of-the-art facility in Umhlanga Ridge, Durban. The CYBERMINE continuous miner, based on a Joy …

Ahmed Kalej Nkand, the chief executive officer for Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-run largest copper producer, Gecamines has been fired for alleged ‘gross negligence’ according to a Presidential decree issued by the Presidency, Reuter’s reports. Although Government officials have not divulged details and reasons for the dismissal of Nkand, it …