Minister of Environ-ment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Halima Alao has said the Federal Government will soon reclaim the mining ponds in Plateau State.
Taking a wholistic risk assesment of the power probe being carried out by the House of Representatives, the governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday declared that members of the House Power and Steel Committee are on a suicide mission
Energovod Engineering Services Limited, one of the engineering companies involved in the NIPP saga, has reacted to the claims by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) that it collected mobilisation fees and varnished into thin air without any work
AFRICAN Global Capital, the natural resources fund set up by Mvelaphanda Holdings and two international investor groups in January, has made its first investment by taking 29,04% of Aflease Gold.
The water requirements of at least 12 new uranium mines by 2015 will come to about 53 million cubic metres, compared to a total water supply of 67 million cubic metres presently provided by NamWater to all its customers countrywide.
Rockson Engineering, a major contractor handling the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) for Omoku, Egbema and Alaoji plants in Bayelsa, Imo and Abia respectively, has blamed the Federal Government for the delay in the execution of some key power projects
LSE-listed Firestone Diamonds has published an update on the company's operations, with particular interest in the Tsabong Project in the southern part of Botswana, which they say is their most important project.
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti would produce 1,19-million ounces of gold in the first quarter of this year, 8% more than it expected, as Eskom had stabilised power supply to the mining industry, it said on Friday.
Estimates are putting Tanzania's gold potential at 1,000 million ounces which are open for exploration activities, the Tanzania Chamber of Minerals and Energy said last week.
About 70 small-scale miners at Mererani, in Manyara region Northern Tanzania are feared dead following a mining accident was caused by flooding of the mining pits after heavy rains in the area.
Emerging copper firm African Copper, which hopes to produce the first concentrate at its flagship mine in Botswana next month, will publish plans for underground mining at the operation in the coming weeks, CEO Joseph Hamilton said on Tuesday.
While last week's issue of Mererani quarries disaster is still fresh among residents, concern regarding 'ghost miners' working at the mining hills of Simanjiro has re-emerged.
