Politics
Comprehensive and up-to-date news on politics in relation to mining. The latest gold, copper and metal prices, mining stock, and market data.
- Mar- 2020 -3 Mar
Germany moves into hydrogen with lessons from OPEC and Russia
Germany is taking its first steps to build an economy based on hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, seeking to deliver…
Read More » - Jan- 2020 -31 Jan
Congo moves to monopolize about 25% of all Cobalt exports
The Democratic Republic of Congo created a state monopoly for hand-mined cobalt as the government tries to exert more market…
Read More » - Dec- 2019 -3 Dec
EPOs pushing small scale miners from mining business – Zimbabwe MPs
Parliament’s Mines committee members say the introduction of Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) has resulted in high leakages of the gold…
Read More » - Oct- 2019 -31 Oct
South African Union to hold protest march to Glencore offices
South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers is to embark on a march to Glencore Plc’s offices in Witbank in Mpumalanga…
Read More » - 4 Oct
Zimbabwe accuses U.S. of lying about diamond-mining forced labor
Zimbabwe angrily denounced a U.S. government decision to curb imports of diamonds from its Marange field, branding the claim the…
Read More » - 2 Oct
United States of America issue ban on Zimbabwe diamonds
United States of America Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a ban on the sale of Zimbabwe’s rough diamonds…
Read More » - Aug- 2019 -20 Aug
South Africa to take ‘affordable’ approach to nuclear
South Africa will not adopt a “big bang” approach to building new nuclear power capacity but instead add capacity in…
Read More » - 20 Aug
Vedanta and Zambian President Lungu to discuss KCM in India
Vedanta Resources will meet Zambian President Edgar Lungu and his team on their visit to India this week for further…
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