South Africa’s mining sector is now one of the world’s more lucrative honey pots for lawyers, given twisted and inane actions increasingly taken by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR). |
court-appointed liquidator said on Friday it has taken over the running of Toronto-listed First Quantum Minerals’ (FM.TO) Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings (KMT) copper and cobalt project at Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.On Wednesday, the firm said a Congolese court had initiated proceedings to liquidate the $750 million project, the latest step in a row between the company and the government. |
A court-appointed liquidator said on Friday it has taken over the running of Toronto-listed First Quantum Minerals’ (FM.TO) Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings (KMT) copper and cobalt project at Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided more evidence of the extraordinary power and reach of global change, particularly the slowdown of a North Atlantic Ocean current system that could happen again and continues to be a concern to climate scientists. |
South Africa’s department of trade and industry (DTI) has issued a touchy-feely reaction to the conclusion of international arbitration proceedings brought against South Africa in 2006, challenging the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act No. 28 of 2002 (MPRDA), and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Mining Charter. |