Mali's industrial gold production is projected to stay under 60 metric tons annually until 2029, according to a mines ministry plan reviewed by Reuters.

Zimbabwe has frozen exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry said on Wednesday, tightening control over materials key to clean‑energy technologies and defence industries. The ban takes immediate effect, covers all raw minerals already in transit and will remain in place until further notice, the ministry said. “Government expects cooperation of the […] The post Zimbabwe bans exports of all raw minerals appeared first on Vanguard News.

Cuba has reconnected its electrical grid across much of the country, the Energy and Mines Ministry said early on Tuesday, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the communist-run ‌island, saying he could do anything he wanted with Cuba.

More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains ​at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic ‌of Congo, the country’s mines ministry said on Wednesday. A senior official from the AFC/M23 rebel group, which controls the mine, told Reuters ​earlier that only five or six died in the […]