Tanzania has renewed Barrick’s special mining licences for the North Mara gold mine for a further 15 years, to 2041, under the Twiga Minerals model in which the government holds a 16 percent free carried interest and the partners share economic benefits equally. Barrick announced the renewal on October 5; it recirculated in African coverage on October 16 and is recorded here with its original date. Barrick says its Tanzanian operations contributed about 5.3 billion dollars to the economy between 2019 and 2025, including 1.2 billion dollars in 2025, and that North Mara produced 249,000 attributable ounces last year.
Egypt is seeking to build an African mining alliance centred on local processing, technology transfer and industrial investment, Industry Minister Khaled Hashem said on Saturday at the opening of African Mining Week 2026 in Cape Town. Egypt argued that the continent’s mining success should be measured by the industries and jobs its minerals create, not extraction volumes alone, the same value addition argument now running through mining policy from Liberia to Zambia.
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema will open the 2026 Mining Insaka, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Botswana sending presidential envoys, Lusaka Times reported on Sunday. The gathering is Zambia’s flagship mining policy forum, and the regional attendance underlines how copperbelt diplomacy now runs alongside the investment competition between Zambia and Congo.
Nigeria’s Mining Marshals have denied involvement in a September enforcement operation in Niger State that was linked to miners’ deaths, Vanguard and Daily Trust reported on Sunday. The denial leaves the circumstances of the operation contested; the marshals are the federal government’s dedicated enforcement corps against illegal mining, and the case is a watch point for how Abuja balances its formalisation drive against enforcement on the ground.
Chile’s Codelco and Finland’s Normet have partnered to accelerate autonomous underground mining technologies, E&MJ reported. The pairing of the world’s largest copper producer with a specialist underground equipment maker is another step in the industry’s shift of underground work from operators at the face to remote and autonomous systems.
Ghana’s Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists and the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources have partnered to improve natural resource reporting, allAfrica reported. It is a small item with a real subject: the quality of public information about mining revenues in a country where gold is the top export and artisanal mining politics are rarely out of the news.