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Vale Mining Limited, Brazil’s diversified multinational miner’s total nickel output stood at 61,700 tons in the June quarter this year, compared to 65,200 tons a year earlier, the company has said. In a statement, the company states that from January to June 2014, the miner produced a total of 129,200 tons …

Copper output from Zambia, Africa’s main copper producer increased over 100,000 tones in the first quarter this year compared to a year earlier, the Bank of Zambia says. According to the Lusaka-Based Bank of Zambia, copper production rose to over 400,000 metric tons in the first quarter of 2014 from …

First Quantum Minerals Limited forecasts to produce 300,000 tons of copper by the end of this year at its ‘Greenfield’ Sentinel Kalumbila mine by the end of this year, a mine official says. The Sentinel mine, part of the US$2 billion Trident project located west of Solwezi in North-Western Province, …

Reminiscent of South Africa’s raging labour unrest, Swaziland is experiencing a mining sector worker crisis, relative to the small country’s equally small mining industry, a report says. The traditional country’s mining problems have a unique African flavour. Chiefs and their councils have been implicated in allegations of bribery by would-be …

Paragon Diamonds seeks to conditionally increase its interest in the Lemphane Kimberlite project in Lesotho, owned by Meso Diamonds, to 100 percent from 85 percent. The company, which already has projects in Lesotho, Botswana and Zambia, said it is moving toward the stage one mining development phase at the Lemphane …