West Africa

Federal government has reached a memorandum of understanding with 3D Hitech System Ltd for construction of a gas power plant in Ajaokuta. It has also reached an MOU with T...

The deadly disease Ebola has caused a shuffle in the West African countries, and it is negative effects are now being felt across the mining industry. Embattled West African iron-ore...

African mines are beginning to focus increased attention on improving efficiencies of minerals processing plants in order to boost production outputs. Speaking after this year’s Electra Mining exhibition held in...

  Ghanaian government has decided to construct two new gold refineries in the country to aid in the value addition and processing of precious stones before exporting. This was confirmed...

Nigerians to pay hefty prices for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) following a rapid price increment of 48%. However, NALPGAM President, Mr. Basil Ogbuanu, supposed that ALGASCO, operator of the Apapa...

The government of Egypt has announced the signing of two major oil exploration agreements with US-based Apache Company, which will help it to address rising energy costs. The contract, worth...

Nampala mine in Southern Mali is set to produce the first bar of gold by the end of this year. Canada’s Robex Resources country manager, Abdel Kader Maïga, confirmed the...

Gryphon Minerals has confirmed through their COO Steve Zaninovich that they will have started start construction works at the US$ 96.8m Banfora gold project in Burkina Faso by first quarter...

Shell, one of the oil giant manufactures, is in a process to sell out four of its oil blocks in Nigeria due to oil theft, illegal bunkering and community unrest....

The Ebola virus has recently piled pressure on West Africa iron ore miners as it has forced them to battle tough mining conditions and a price slump. Some major companies...