US targets China’s rare earths dominance with minerals-security finance network
The United States announced the establishment of a minerals-security finance network with its allies on Monday, the latest step in its bid to halt China’s global dominance of critical minerals. The network was the latest initiative out of the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), a framework the US set up with 13 countries and the European Commission in 2022. It aims to diversify the countries’...
Ecobank partners Women in Mining on Gold & Gemstone Conference and Exhibition
Ecobank Nigeria, a subsidiary of the Ecobank Group, the leading pan-African banking group, is partnering the Women in Mining In Nigeria (WIMIN) for its annual Gold and Gemstone Conference & Exhibition. The 3-day event, scheduled for Thursday, September 26th to Saturday, September 28th will be held at the Ecobank Pan African Centre (EPAC) on Victoria Island, Lagos. The Gold and...
Elektros begins Lithium Aggregate Shipments from Sierra Leone site
Elektros, a leading innovator in electric mobility, announced it has begun initial shipment of raw aggregate from its Sierra Leone Lithium mining site to the United States.Elektros has achieved a significant milestone in its operational progress, initiating the shipment of initial truckloads of unprocessed lithium aggregate from its Southern Sierra site to the city of Bo. This development marks...
Kwara Commissioner for Solid Minerals receives TheMiners team, reiterates state governor’s vow to develop minerals sector
The Kwara State government would stop at nothing in its determination to ensure that the natural resources of the state is harnessed and developed for the well being of citizens of the state.The Commissioner of Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, Kwara State, Dr. Afees Abolore, announced this when he led other management members of the ministry to receive the...
Hidden Gems: Women defying gender norms to venture into artisanal mining
After a two-hour drive from Kisumu, a city in the Western part of Kenya, a dusty road wounds at a quiet village deep within Siaya county. Homesteads seem concentrated in one place, and large swathes of bare land occasionally appear in areas where there is no human settlement. Mobile phone reception is shaky, but after manoeuvring, we find a slightly elevated...
In US, Gov Sule markets Nasarawa’s mineral wealth
*Photo: Governor Abdullahi A. Sule (right) at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC...on Tuesday* Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr. Abdullahi A. Sule took the center stage on Tuesday, September 17,2024, as a speaker at the Africa Critical Minerals Panel, held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, United States of America. During his presentation, Governor Sule shared Nasarawa State's...
Large deposits of minerals abound in Ogun, says Gov Abiodun …British Battery Recycling Company plans investment
*Photo L-R: First Secretary, Political, British High Commission in Nigeria, Katherine Fernades; Senior Political Adviser, Wale Adebajo; British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Richard Montgomery; Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun; his Deputy, Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele and Manufacturing Africa Adviser for Nigeria, Elizabeth Davies Kumadiro, during a courtesy call on Governor Abiodun at the Governor's Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, on Wednesday.* Governor...
Five foreign nationals arrested for illegal mining in Akwa Ibom
Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, have arrested five suspected illegal Chinese miners at Ndito-Eka-Iba village, in Ibieno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The five alleged illegal miners were arrested by the “Special Task Force on illegal Mining” following credible intelligence on the illegal activities of foreign mining companies...
FCT Minister visits largest quarry in West Africa
Photo:FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike (3rd left) with the Coordinator of Abuja Metroplotan Management Council, Hon Felix Obuah (2nd left) and other senior officials of the FCTA during the Minister's tour of Zeberced Quarry in Abuja on Saturday. Minister of the FCT, Barr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike on Saturday August 14, 2024 visited the Zeberced Limited Quarry, the biggest Quarry in...
Women in Mining’s Gold and Gemstones Exhibition excites jewelers, fashonistas, mining stakeholders
The third edition of the African Gemstones and Jewelry Exhibition and Conference (AGJEC) promises to foster business growth, enhance skills and create opportunities for local businesses to participate in the mining value chain to contribute to a more diversified economy, organisers of the event have said. The AGJEC, which holds in Lagos from the 26th to 28th of September, is...
