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ArcelorMittal shuts down steel production in South Africa and lays off 3,500 workers

Ongoing rail logistics problems in South Africa and the worsening energy crisis have significantly increased costs for the business, ArcelorMittal...

Lift breaks at South Africa's deepest mine, killing 11 miners

Impala Platinum (IMPJ.J) said on Tuesday it had temporarily stopped work at its Rustenburg mining complex in South Africa after 11 workers died in an...

Egypt calls on Western countries to help developing economies decarbonize their steel industry

Steel exporters from developing countries face EU Carbon Border Mechanism (CBAM) tariffs that would have “serious consequences.”...

Guinea bans mining companies from exporting more than half of foreign exchange earnings

Under the new rules, starting this Friday, Guinean mining firms are required to remit at least half of their export earnings into the country. This...

Nigeria to pay half a billion dollars to the Mittal family in compensation for selected concessions

Nigeria Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, who led the talks, said the government had succeeded in reducing Global Steel...

Nigeria can turn Russian-Ukrainian conflict to its advantage - Lee Engineering Group

The hydrocarbon deficit in Europe gives Nigeria a very good opportunity to get huge investments in its gas distribution industry and build new plants...

Anglo American Unveils Largest Hydrogen-Powered Mining Truck

nuGen TM Zero Emission Haulage Solution is a premium hydrogen powered mining truck. This is an ambitious project, in which for the first time a truck...

Ethiopia begins to generate electricity at the Nile megadam

Egypt, which consumes 97% of its water for irrigation and drinking from the Nile, considers the dam a threat to the existence of its economy....

EU invests more than 150 billion euros in Africa

Investment in Africa's infrastructure is seen by the European Commission as a response to the People's Republic of China's "One Belt, One...

Elon Musk's Tesla makes a deal with Mozambique to reduce dependence on China

Tesla will buy the material from the Syrah refinery, which receives raw materials from its mine in Balama, Mozambique...

Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch three South African-made satellites

These are the first satellites entirely made on the continent where Elon Musk was born...

US company to build the country's first green hydrogen plant in Egypt

The new plant will be the largest green hydrogen plant in the world to produce green ammonia....

Egypt is interested in Ukrainian mining and metallurgical technologies

A representative delegation from Egypt visited the Novokramatorsk machine-building plant, which got acquainted with the modern equipment and...

New COVID Option Rocks Metals Markets

Copper is still very scarce due to low stocks on the London Metal Exchange...

China has invested over a billion dollars in agricultural development in Africa

The influx of Chinese money into Africa is growing rapidly, with a significant share of agriculture....

Elon Musk asked for a plan to help end world hunger

Director of the World Food Program shares a link to a plan to help 42 million people not die of hunger in 2022...

New gold rush begins in South Africa due to coronavirus pandemic

The mining of gold in illegal mines in South Africa, considered the deepest and most dangerous in the world, is accompanied by human losses....

South African metallurgists took to mass protests demanding higher wages

A protest member of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) lost consciousness and died at a demonstration in the city of...

South Africa plans to launch pilot carbon capture in 2023

South Africa intends to increase the processing of fossil fuels, having the largest deposits of coal on the continent, capturing emissions from its...

Chinese company gains unlimited access to minerals in Nigeria

One of the largest construction companies in China, as well as the largest infrastructure contractor China Railway Investment Group Limited, intends...

World's third largest platinum producer may be hit by unrest in South Africa

Civil unrest has hit mineral supply chains in South Africa....

South African gold mines record spike in fatalities

South African mining and trade unions are concerned about rising mining-related deaths....

Interpipe delivered locomotive wheels to Mauritania

The trains in Mauritania are among the longest and heaviest in the world, so two to four locomotives are usually used at the head of the train....

Ukrainian An-124 transported 216 tons of mining equipment to Africa on two flights

An-124-100 aircraft are equipped with a front cargo ramp, which is ideal for safe and easy transportation of heavy and oversized cargo....

Zimbabwe government seeks new investors in ZISCO steel plant

Officials expect the new investor to leave 35% of the design, procurement and construction operations to local companies....

South African authorities recognize mineral resource management as a constraint

The system has accumulated 5,326 applications for permits and rights for exploration and production of minerals, concessions and renewals, which...

Three employees of the ArcelorMittal plant in South Africa covered up with a collapsed 90-meter chimney

Part of a 90-meter chimney of one of the plant's coke oven batteries collapsed onto the control room of the coke oven battery, in which three...

Eurasian Resources Group Supports Fund to Prevent Child Labor Exploitation in Mining Communities

Сосредоточив свою деятельность на Медном поясе страны, Фонд по предотвращению эксплуатации детского труда в горнодобывающих общинах стремится...

First ship loaded with iron ore headed from Sierra Leone to China

The new mine will supply China's domestic market with approximately 35 million tonnes of iron ore per year....

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