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  • Eritrea beefs up mine security after gold miner executions 7 Nov 2009 10:17 GMT
    ... Eritrea beefs up mine security after gold miner executions Following the ambush and subsequent execution ... has substantially improved state-provided security for the mining sector. Author: Jeremy Clarke Posted: Saturday , ... nationals employed by Australian company Chalice Gold Mines Limited were ambushed and executed on a ...

  • Failure to Suspend Zimbabwe Allows for Sale of "Blood Diamonds" - HRW 7 Nov 2009 11:55 GMT
    ... Johannesburg — The credibility of the world's "blood ... of diamonds and rampant violence against local miners and residents by Zimbabwean police and army ... appointment of a human rights expert to examine further abuses in Marange. The mission also ...

  • Failure to Suspend Zimbabwe Allows for Sale of 'Blood Diamonds' - HRW [press release] 7 Nov 2009 16:54 GMT
    ... Johannesburg — The credibility of the world's "blood ... of diamonds and rampant violence against local miners and residents by Zimbabwean police and army ... appointment of a human rights expert to examine further abuses in Marange. The mission also ...

  • Smaller gold miners show their lustre 7 Nov 2009 00:56 GMT
    ... global market meltdown. This ETF holds larger miners, and is nearly 50-per-cent invested in three ... Barrick Gold Corp., Goldcorp Inc. and Newmont Mining Corp. Now, it is funds with smaller ... runs both Sentry Select funds. A senior miner needs a rising gold price to help ...

  • Best gold funds 7 Nov 2009 02:02 GMT
    ... global market meltdown. This ETF holds larger miners, and is nearly 50-per-cent invested in three ... Barrick Gold Corp., Goldcorp Inc. and Newmont Mining Corp. Now, it is funds with smaller ... runs both Sentry Select funds. A senior miner needs a rising gold price to help ...

  • Background Notes : Zambia (11/09) 7 Nov 2009 05:57 GMT
    ... under Kaunda's leadership from 1964 to 1991. Before 1972, Zambia had three significant political parties, ... the result of poor management of state-owned mines and lack of investment. With the privatization of ... late 2008 put significant pressure on the mining companies and government revenue. Zambia experienced positive ...

  • Zambia's largest cobalt producer resumes output 7 Nov 2009 16:19 GMT
    ... Lusaka - Zambia's largest cobalt producer, Chambishi Metals Plc has restarted production after suppliers in ... processing copper concentrates after China Nonferrous Metals Mining Corporation (CNMC) unit, Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM) restarted output. Chambishi had forecast B-grade ...

  • Great Western Minerals Group Closes Special Warrant Financing 7 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
    ... DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES) Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. ("GWMG" or the "Company") (TSX ... the value added capabilities at Less Common Metals and Great Western Technologies Inc., and working ... this release. INDUSTRY: Manufacturing and Production - Mining and Metals SUBJECT: FNC ...

  • Mine Galvanizes Civil Society 7 Nov 2009 14:52 GMT
    ... health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other ... to discuss issues concerning the Kayelekera Uranium Mine (KUM) which lies 52 km north east ... CFJ. "They are operating under the 1981 Mines and Minerals Act, which was passed during (President ...

  • Diamond watchdog gives Zim time to comply 7 Nov 2009 05:32 GMT
    ... proceeds from sales of Marange diamonds, Zimbabwean Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu told the meeting ... week's Namibia meetings. The investigators had interviewed miners who told of working for soldiers who ...

  • Diamond watchdog gives Zimbabwe time to comply 7 Nov 2009 15:18 GMT
    ... proceeds from sales of Marange diamonds, Zimbabwean Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu told the meeting ... week's Namibia meetings. The investigators had interviewed miners who told of working for soldiers who ...

  • Mazembe ´hide´ ahead of African final 7 Nov 2009 03:36 GMT
    ... T.P. Mazembe team pose before the first leg final match of the ... opponents Heartland either in the southern Congolese mining city ahead of the second leg that ... hoping for dry weather in the Congolese copper minning capital as he blames a wet, ...

  • Football: Mazembe 'hide' ahead of African final 7 Nov 2009 03:18 GMT
    ... Nigerian opponents Heartland either in the southern mining city ahead of the second leg that ... is hoping for dry weather in the copper minning capital as he blames a wet, ... have been in this situation (narrow lead) before and wriggled out. Yes, our backs are ...

  • China, Africa Trade Soars 7 Nov 2009 05:17 GMT
    ... companies scramble to secure much-needed energy and mineral resources, building roads and other infrastructure and ... China specialist at the Colorado School of Mines, said China is chiefly interested in two ... is interested in in Africa is her mining resources. So they have invested in a ...

  • Zimbabwe gets break on diamond field 7 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
    ... South Africa — Investigators for the world’s diamond control body say the gems were mined ... proceeds from sales of Marange diamonds, Zimbabwean Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu told the meeting ...

  • Big spender 7 Nov 2009 16:52 GMT
    ... The shopping list of the two lucky ticketholders of ... is unlikely. But worth a try. Diamond mines can be a savvy investment Diamonds are no ... Australia among other places. One South African mine was bought by Petra Diamonds for one ...

  • Kimberley Process: Zimbabwe Action Mars Credibility 7 Nov 2009 01:35 GMT
    ... (Johannesburg) - The credibility of the world's "blood ... of diamonds and rampant violence against local miners and residents by Zimbabwean police and army ... appointment of a human rights expert to examine further abuses in Marange. The mission also ...

  • Mazembe clinch Champs Lge title 7 Nov 2009 16:51 GMT
    ... week. But it was a close call before a sell-out 35,000 crowd with Mazembe collecting ... goal to bring the trophy back to copper-rich southern Congo. Mazembe won the fledgling African ... bring the cup back to the copper mining city. ThankGod Ike was a hero for ...

  • Blood on your handset? 7 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
    ... bloody conflict. Here, coltan supplied by illegal mining operations bankrolls the militias that commit grave ... he could marry his fiancée . A mine recruiter offered him a job that paid ... place for me to work, except the mines." But Prashil Sajnani knows of another existence ...

  • Kimberley Process ignores its own advice 7 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... by Kpandel Fiya, Liberia's deputy minister of mines, visited the Chiadzwa diamond area in Marange ... addressed to Obert Mpofu, Zimbabwe's minister of mining, Fiya said: "Sir, I was in Liberia ... security forces of killing more than 200 miners in 2008 - an allegation denied by ...

  • Minmetals ponders Marampa investment 7 Nov 2009 02:32 GMT
    ... Zhang Qi (China Daily) Updated: 2009-11-07 08:32 Metals trader China Minmetals said on Friday that ... it was conducting research on a London Mining iron ore project and has not signed any cooperation ...

  • Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government 7 Nov 2009 02:13 GMT
    ... Now Thaksin - who was ousted in a 2006 ... offensive. This is a calculated campaign to undermine this government and to change governments," said ... golfing in Brunei and Dubai, inspecting diamond mines in South Africa, sipping coffee in a private ...

  • Tsvangirai calls off MDC boycott of cabinet meetings 7 Nov 2009 01:14 GMT
    ... ZIMBABWE'S MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Morgan ... months to bring order to its Marange diamond fields by the Kimberley Process, a watchdog ... Rights Watch says more than 200 illegal miners have been killed by soldiers since then. ...

  • ANCYL, Nedbank reach 'common ground' 7 Nov 2009 01:10 GMT
    ... The ANC Youth League said Nedbank had committed itself ... It believes Nedbank withdrew its sponsorship to undermine the transformation of athletics in South Africa. ... to all out government intervention (nationalising the mines- need I say more). The political clout ...

  • New Crisis with Russia Averted as Ukraine Pays Natural Gas Dues 7 Nov 2009 00:17 GMT
    ... to the CIA: “ complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, ... industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling ... well-known fact that alcohol kills brain cells. Furthermore, Russians are drug addicts and infected with ...


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