Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines will sign the country’s first oil contract with China’s state-owned National Petroleum Corporation.

PRODUCTION has been temporarily suspended at Kenmare Resources’ Moma titanium mine in Mozambique after employees went on strike over wage demands.

Afghanistan's untapped mineral wealth is worth at least $3 trillion (€2.4 trillion) - triple a US estimate, according to the government's top mining official.

Zimbabwe promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported – a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.