While South Africa is still trundling along laboriously with a minerals cadastre system fraught with shortcomings, Mozambique has rocketed to the highest firmament of e-government licence processing, Mining Weekly can report. Mozambique first led the pack 17 years ago when, ironically, it latched on to South African-developed technology that South

The discovery of alluvial diamonds in the unique secondary deposits of the Middle Orange River downstream of Hopetown in South Africa in 1867 was the catalyst that initiated the development of the mining industry in Southern Africa. But compared with its heyday between the 1990s and early 2000s, today’s junior

Diamond miner Lucapa has raised A$5.25-million through its non-renounceable pro-rata rights issue to bankroll its search for the primary kimberlite source of the high value alluvial diamonds recovered at its Lulo project, in Angola. The company in April announced the rights issue under which eligible shareholders were able to subscribe

The tragic tailings dam breach in Brazil that killed more than 270 people has focused the world of mining on making tailings dams safe. Earlier this year, and environmental organisation Grid-Arendal launched the world’s first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage facilities with support from the United Nations

A natural diamond is made from carbon and is the hardest natural known substance on earth. Natural diamonds are created over a period of one to three billion years, many kilometres below the earth’s mantle under natural conditions of very high pressure and high temperature. But unlike champagne, the use

Driven by significantly reduced diamond prices, especially in its March tender, diamond miner Petra Diamonds reports a drop in revenue of 32% year-on-year to $91.3-million for the third quarter of the financial year ended March 31. Reflecting stable market conditions before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold internationally, the company notes