Africa Top Stories

Interactive infographic: The global uranium cost spectrum

Cost is as important in the economics of mining uranium as it is with precious metals. But the cost of producing uranium […]

Blair McBride | May 1, 2026 | 4:27 pm

Infographic: Gold and silver producers vs reserves

The ranks of the world’s top precious metal producing countries…

Blair McBride | June 3, 2025 | 1:38 pm

Aris Mining’s Woodyer on his billion-dollar babies

The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli sat down with…

Adrian Pocobelli | March 2, 2025 | 2:47 pm

Cobalt price hits lowest since 2016 amid record production

China’s CMOC set a new production record last year and…

Staff Writer | January 27, 2025 | 1:05 am

B2Gold CEO Clive Johnson on Mali risk and a life in mining

Clive Johnson has built a reputation for making successful bets…

Alisha Hiyate | December 23, 2024 | 12:48 pm

Illegal mercury trade for gold mining uncovered

An international team of researchers has developed a new method for examining global mercury trade data inconsistencies based on estimating and comparing […]

Staff Writer | July 21, 2022 | 6:06 am

Metso Outotec to supply plant equipment to Kamoa Copper in DRC

Kamoa Copper has selected Metso Outotec to supply key concentrator plant equipment to the company’s copper mining complex expansion in the Democratic […]

Jackson Chen | July 18, 2022 | 11:50 am

Barrick sees 5.4% bump in quarterly gold output, copper up 18.8%

Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD; TSX: ABX) has reported its preliminary second quarter operating results, showing total gold production of 1.04 million oz. […]

Jackson Chen | July 14, 2022 | 10:48 am

Gold-uranium mine in South Africa sheds new light on life’s power generators below earth’s surface

An international team of researchers discovered that Harmony Gold Mining‘s gold and uranium Moab Khotsong mine in South Africa hosts 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater, […]

Staff Writer | July 10, 2022 | 7:45 am