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By Glenn-Nora Tjipura The Canadian company Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) on the 27th July announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of fellow Canadian explorer Renaissance Oil Corp. Renaissance is the onshore operator in Mexico with 100% working interest. Their shares are expected to be delisted from the TSX …

Oniipa constituency councillor Vilho Nuunyango has confirmed that sand mining at the Ondando village has been temporarily suspended. This has been done pending a directive from environmental commissioner Timotheus Mufeti. Nuunyango said that he and police officers from Onayena visited the pit where the businessmen extracted sand after he was …

Tom Alweendo, the Minister of Mines and Energy, says his ministry is only requesting a N$212,4 million budget allocation from Treasury for the current financial year. He stated this during the National Assembly’s motivation for the 2021/22 budget. The budget request, according to the minister, is for six programs: promotion …

While Namibia lacks a regulatory structure to direct the sector, temporary electricity storage will improve Namibia’s intermittent renewable power-generation capability. Increased power-generation capacity in Namibia could reduce the country’s total monthly electricity imports. Due to seasonal demand, the country has imported more than 200 000 MWh since June of last …

Since 2011, Namibians have been debating whether or not to mine for marine phosphate. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism has declared itself neutral on the topic after ten years of the country’s most contentious debate. Despite this, government leaders, billionaire capitalists, and activists have been treading a fine …

Marenica’s uranium exploration efforts in Namibia are still paying off, with the company discovering a massive palaeochannel system that stretches for at least 19 kilometres. The Namib IV system is located northeast and southwest of the Hirabeb and Koppies systems, but it is separate from them. Marenica Energy’s (ASX: MEY) …

According to the Bank of Namibia (BoN), diamond output was down 14,7 per cent in real terms in 2020, and growth is projected at 2,8 per cent in 2021 and 16,9 per cent next year. Namibia expects robust growth in diamond and uranium mining this year after the two sub-sectors …

Omnia Group company BME says South Africa needs to do more to benefit from the looming demand peak in ‘green minerals. Ralf Hennecke, General Manager, Technology and Marketing at Omnia Group company BME said mines have been very successful in containing COVID-19 infections, allowing most operations to return to almost …

The De Beers Company is on its way towards becoming a carbon-neutral diamond miner and marketer. By 2030, carbon neutrality at its mines in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa, as well as in its other activities around the diamond pipeline around the world, is expected to be reached by …

The World Bank (WB) estimates, for instance, that production of minerals like graphite, lithium and cobalt could grow by 500 percent in the next three decades to meet demand for clean energy technologies. This comes on the backdrop that mining remains a vital part of a low-carbon future, a fact …