Keith Campbell

Australian miner reports huge Mozambique graphite resource

Australian miner Syrah Resources believes that the graphite deposit encompassed by its Balama project in Mozambique is bigger than the whole of the rest of the world’s reserves of the mineral. The Balama ore body is calculated at 1.15-billion...

Titanium pilot plant launched at CSIR

Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has hailed the opening of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR's) titanium pilot plant as "quite a great moment". He officially inaugurated the plant on Friday, at the CSIR...

Newly merged consulting engineering firm finding work across Africa and beyond

The South African-based division of Hatch, the global consulting engineers and project management and implementation group, Hatch Goba (previously Hatch Africa), is targetting opportunities in the mining sector in the rest of Africa and beyond....

Norilsk changes Africa, Australia CEOs, reports first quarter outputs

World number one nickel and palladium producer MMC Norilsk Nickel (Norilsk) has announced that the new CEO of Norilsk Nickel Africa is Michael Marriott, who was previously the Deputy Director of Norilsk’s Overseas Production Assets Department....

Mozambique unit of India's JSPL dispatches first coal shipment

The first shipment of coal mined by JSPL Mozambique Minerals at its Chirodze operation in the Tete province of the African country has been exported to India from the port of Beira. The shipment amounted to 36 600 t and was loaded on to the...

Natural resources continue to drive Mozambican economy and attract foreign interest

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mozambique hit a record level last year, with most of it directed at the natural resources sector, the Bank of Mozambique has revealed. The FDI figure for 2012 was $5.218-billion, more than double the amount of...

Vale seeks peace with potters, continues training Mozambicans

Brazilian mining group Vale has been negotiating with potters who blockaded its Moatize coal mine in the Tete province of Mozambique for about 24 hours in the middle of last month, the Mozambican newspaper O País reported recently. The potters...

Vale’s Moatize mine hit by compensation protest

Vale Mozambique, the African coal mining subsidiary of the major Brazilian mining group Vale, was again hit by protests at its Moatize coal mine in Mozambique’s Tete province last week. The protestors blocked all road and rail access to the mine...

Another mine on the way in Tete while coal boosts Sofala province

The Mozambican government has granted locally-domiciled company Minas do Revúboè a concession to mine coal at its project in Tete province. Revúboè is a joint venture between Australian junior Talbot Group Investments, which has a 58.9%...

Expansion of mining in Mozambique bringing benefits and concerns

Mineral production in Mozambique should generate revenues of nearly 20.8-billion meticais (some $680-million, or R6.24-billion) during this year, a technical team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast. Mozambique’s income from...