The Kenya Chamber of Mines (KCM) and the Association of Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya (AWEIK) jointly convened the Kenya Mining Week on 17th – 18th July 2023 at Radisson Blu, Upperhill, Nairobi. The objective was to address crucial aspects of Kenya’s...
5 of the Top 10 largest mining companies saw a positive percenatge growth from 2021 to 2022. Gold Fields and Barrick registered 9% growth each from a difference of 4.7 Moz and 7 Moz of Au Reserves respectively. Harmony was the greatest loser among...
Contract mining appears to be an emerging model in the industry. When companies need help with recruitment services, one of the first things the recruiting agencies ask is whether the position is a contract labor or direct placement opportunity. This is because a direct-hire...
Women are underrepresented at all levels within mining companies. Yet opportunities remain for the industry to boost female recruitment, retention, and advancement. A research findings by McKinsey show why women are leaving the mining industry and what mining companies can do about it. Women...
Perhaps, it is a strategy, but the Government of Ghana appears to be very desperate. She needs short to medium term solutions in bringing back the economy to life as promised the citizens during the covid-19 pandemic. The economy has been in distress for...
Where Does the Best Come From? The best comes from the west, they say. And this is a truism for most Ghanaians. Indeed, to the psychic of the ordinary Ghanaian, towards the far west in the International conceptual framework is the United States of...
Popular Chinese woman reported to be a kingpin in the galamsey business, Huang Ruixia alias Aisha Huang has been arrested again and arraigned for fresh charges. Aisha Huang, who was a household name in Ghana five years ago, was charged together with three others...
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s investment minister said more than 2,000 mining permits for various minerals have been revoked amid efforts to tighten the sector’s governance and plan for land redistribution. The ministry has revoked 2,065 permits covering more than 3.1-million hectares (7.6-million acres) of land...
Generation Z, also known as GenZ or Zoomers, are known to be technologically adept, diverse, trendy, pragmatic and financially minded. They have a wide variety of interests. Geoscience is definitely not one of them. That worries Claudia Mora, in part because she’s a former...
Two new modernised communities have been commissioned in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region as part of resettlement package to pave way for large scale gold mining activities. The two communities, Digaare (Accra Site) and Biung were on land that had been...
Severe drought and illegal mining in Ghana are expected to drastically reduce the country’s cocoa when harvesting begins in September. According to Bloomberg, Ghana’s cocoa regulator had originally forecast a crop of 950,000 tons for 2022. The harvest was however hit by long dry...
