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Ghana’s gold loses its lustre for Chinese miners

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Admin

Miners from China face corruption, legal obstacles and even physical danger as they work the African country’s soil for the precious metal by Amy Nip reporting from Kumasi and Obuasi in Ghana. This story was originally published in South China… Continue Reading →

Featured Amy Nip, galamsey, Ghana, gold, Kumasi, mining, SCMP
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Chinese consortium to revive Uganda’s once-vital copper mines

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Admin

A Chinese consortium recently won a concession to revive production at the Kilembe Mines in southwestern Uganda. The mines, which contain substantial deposits of copper and cobalt, stopped operating in 1982. With funding from the Wits China-Africa Reporting Project, Fredrick… Continue Reading →

Featured copper, Fredrick Mugira, Kilembe, mining, Tibet Hima, Uganda
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Chinese to breathe new life into Klerksdorp

Posted on Jan 24, 2014 by Admin

Sunday Times Business writer Loni Prinsloo describes the frenzy of construction and lofty expectations thanks to substantial Chinese investment of a forgotten Highveld mining town. It is where Desmond Tutu was born and where one of the oldest stock exchanges… Continue Reading →

Newsfeed China African Precious Metals, gold, Klerksdorp, Loni Prinsloo, mining, Sunday Times, Zhaoyuan
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Chinese Joburg: The Professional Expat

Posted on Dec 2, 2013 by Admin

A new type of Chinese immigrant is moving to South Africa – the skilled, educated professionals who are unafraid of exploring new territory. Nomads with iPads, they make new lives for themselves wherever they are. Who are they and why… Continue Reading →

Featured, Media huaqiao, immigration, journalism, mining, professional, South Africa
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Chinese Copper mining in Zambia: HRW makes a bad case worse

Posted on Mar 13, 2013 by Admin

Read Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong’s response on Pambazuka News to Human Rights Watch’s update on Chinese copper mining in Zambia which they describe as “shoddy social science and part of the one-sided China-in-Africa discourse that is promoted by the… Continue Reading →

Newsfeed CNMC, copper, Human Rights Watch, mining, Pambazuka News, Zambia






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