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Over the past few years, with commodity prices spiralling ever higher and minerals like gold reaching record levels, many host governments have felt that they were missing out on potential windfalls from their extractive industries – much needed in an era of global belt-tightening. Amongst conditions of economic uncertainty, the mining sector – on...

How competitive is Ghana for mining investment?

Chapter | Mining from The Report: Ghana 2013

Vast mineral resources have served as a primary driver of Ghanaian economic growth in recent decades, and 2012 was another banner year for the mining industry. Ghana was the world’s eighth-largest producer of gold in 2012. At the same time, production of bauxite, a key aluminium property, increased, while deposits of diamonds and manganese continued to attract international investment. Overall,...
Les projets de modernisation du secteur minier ivoirien et de hausse de la contribution de ce dernier à la croissance économique du pays ont franchi une étape capitale début décembre avec l’annonce de la réforme de la législation qui régissait le secteur.
With electricity demand still straining supply, South Africa’s state-owned utility, Eskom, is looking to invest in new generation facilities, rationalise consumption and diversify its energy mix.

With electricity consumption rising inexorably, power production almost entirely gas-based and Algeria’s leadership increasingly conscious of the need to husband exportable gas resources, the country is placing ever-greater hopes on renewable sources of energy. This is particularly the case as a means of feeding domestic demand for electricity, but...

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