Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2016

Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa

Since the beginning of 2004, more than 380 people have died in mining accidents or in off-site skirmishes connected to Australian publicly-traded mining companies in 13 countries in Africa. Australian mining companies are more numerous than those from other mining giants such as Canada, the United Kingdom and China. At the end of 2014, more than 150 companies held about 1500 licenses and owned or managed dozens of mining operations across 33 countries in Africa... Read more...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

L'Afrique à la merci de l'ogre chinois - L'Express L'Expansion


L'horizon s'assombrit pour nombre de pays qui vivent à l'heure pékinoise. Ceux qui ont misé sur la diversification s'en sortent mieux. Le charbon du Mozambique, le cuivre de la Zambie (notre photo) ou le platine de l'Afrique du Sud prennent la direction de la Chine. Suite...

Friday, 1 January 2016

Africa: Mining sector; a bright future!

The African continent is richly endowed with mineral resources. The US Geological society ranks Africa as the largest or second-largest reserve of bauxite, cobalt, industrial diamonds, manganese, phosphate rock, platinum group metals and zirconium. The products produced from these minerals are found in everyday life. Africa has a history of acting as a feedstock for the world’s mineral hunger. British, Belgian and Portuguese colonies produced precious metals and gems since the early 1800s while the majority of private foreign capital invested on the continent between 1870 and the Second World War was channelled into mining. By the early 1990’s, however, the continent was still only receiving some 5% of global exploration and mining development expenditure. A study by the Word Bank on the shortcomings of African territories in the eyes of miners revealed a need for infrastructure, stable legal systems, a predictable fiscal regime, profit repatriation guarantees, and access to foreign exchange. The remarkable changes that took place in Africa from 2000 to 2011 resulted in the continent receiving 15% of global exploration expenditure and mining investment during 2012. The outlook for Africa’s mining sector remains bright. Huge tracts of Africa remain largely unprobed.... Read more...

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Matières premières minérales; qu'en est-il de leur épuisement?

On se pose souvent la question de l'épuisement des ressources naturelles, notamment les matières premières minières: fer, métaux non ferreux et énergétiques. C'est le propos tenu par les écologistes et les tenants du changement climatique en cette période de COP21 fin 2015. Les tenants de cette thèse ignorent le fonctionnement des industries minières dont la fonction économique et sociale est de mettre à la disposition de la société, les matières premières dont la transformation produira les biens matériels pour le bien-être de tous. Mais aussi les armes pour le mal être de certains [lien].​ Suite...





Tuesday, 1 September 2015

L’aide fatale, de Dambisa Moyo | Contrepoints

L’Afrique est-elle irrémédiablement condamnée à vivre à la traîne et à subir les pires fléaux de l’humanité ? Et l’aide de la part des pays riches constitue-t-elle la seule issue ? Voici un ouvrage exceptionnel, qui met à mal bien des idées reçues en la matière et montre toute la perversité de toute cette aide, dont les effets ne seraient que contre-productifs.


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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Example xls Uganda Sukulu phosphates

My site on  the Sukuluhills project in Uganda. 

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(economic calculations are in the line "the project")