On the night of Sunday to Monday, an explosion occurred at the main hydrocarbon depot in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. According to a provisional report published by the government on Tuesday 19 December 2023, the tragedy at the...

On Friday 15 December 2023, a workshop was held in Ouagadougou to adopt the preliminary draft of the revised decree on the list of goods and services supplied to mining companies. The workshop, which brought together members of the...

Gabon's Minister of Mines, Hervé Patrick Opiangah, received the Managing Director of mining company Havillah Consolidated Resources, Dr Gabriel Kamga, on Wednesday 13 December 2023. Dr Kamga came to assess the progress of prospecting at the Milingui site (located...

A working session took place on Thursday 14 December 2023 between Bouygues Group representative Olivier Bouygues and the Gabonese Minister of Mines, Hervé Patrick Opiangah. According to the information made public by the communication department of the Gabonese ministry...

Norwegian company Scatec plans to install 02 solar power plants in the northern part of Cameroon. The announcement was made on 13 December 2023 by Release, a subsidiary through which Scatec has obtained financing for the project. 2 solar power...

On 14 December 2023, the Technical Secretariat for Local Content and Investment Promotion (Secrétariat Technique du Contenu Local et de la Promotion d’Investissement - ST-CLPI) organised an information workshop on local content in the mining sector for journalists with...

Following the cabinet reshuffle on 17 December 2023, Yacouba Zabré Gouba was appointed Minister for Energy, Mines and Quarries.The limited information available to Minesactu.info indicates that he is no stranger to the mining sector.This Treasury Inspector worked in the...

Iamgold Essakane SA is holding the 12th edition of its Health, Safety and Environment Days (JSSE 2023) to celebrate and raise awareness among its workers of the standards and principles of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). At the opening...

4.292 tonnes produced in October 2023Down 14.6% compared with September 2023Following lower production at Houndé Gold SA (-44.7%), Bomboré (-34.9%) and SOMISA (-33.4%)46,239 tonnes produced between January and October 2023Down by 1.5% on the same period in 2022Between January...

Despite the bans in force, mercury remains essential to gold extraction, fostering a persistent black market. In a complex pattern, mercury is smuggled from Togo into the Sahel region and the gold mining areas of Burkina Faso, before being...