Loss of skilled personnel is affecting operations in the mining sector, an official said yesterday.

The full exploitation of the country's mineral resources and the drop in prices of building materials of mineral origin will characterise, as from 2008, the actions of Geology and Mining Ministry, said Thursday in Luanda, the new minister, Mankenda Ambroise.

Group Managing Director/CEO of BGL Plc, Mr. Albert Okumagba has said that a well articulated Development Action Plan (DAP) is imperative for economic transformation of Northern Nigeria to free the region from the firm grip of poverty.

GOVERNMENT intends to exploit the vast mineral deposits in Luapula and turn the province into another mining giant.

THE review of the Mining Charter next year will have to consider that "the majority was getting the minority", minerals and energy deputy director-general Jacinto Rocha said this week.

THE government will revive a state-owned company dormant since 1944 to invest in strategic minerals, such as coal, uranium and vanadium, minerals and energy department deputy director-general Jacinto Rocha said this week.

Sustaining South Africa's Wild Coast (SWC) campaign, a loose coalition of organisations continue to lobby the government to overturn the decision to permit open cast dune mining in the Pondoland Wild Coast region. The SWC argue that not only was