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Archives for March 2017
Eritrea: All go for ‘global game changer’
Staff reporter | 19 Feb 2017 | Mining Journal Now Danakali (AU:DNK) has the green light to develop its positively unique potash project with a 200-year minelife in Eritrea, it is aiming straight for the top. “This project is going to be a game changer for the global potash industry,” managing director and CEO Paul Donaldson says. The factors that give him such … [Read more...] about Eritrea: All go for ‘global game changer’
An innovative cure for broken water pumps in Africa
Feb 28th 2017 | The Economist New technology uses big data to keep the taps flowing IN THE mid-2000s Playpumps International, a charity, hit on a photogenic way of providing clean water to rural African villages: a pump powered by children playing on a merry-go-round. International donors and celebrities pledged more than $16m. But the system was more expensive than … [Read more...] about An innovative cure for broken water pumps in Africa
He who controls the sand: the mining ‘mafias’ killing each other to build cities
Vince Beiser | Tuesday 28 February 2017 | The Guardian Rapid urbanisation has made an ordinary commodity suddenly precious: sand. As cities continue to voraciously need concrete, glass and asphalt, illegal sand mining has sparked a global wave of gang violence In the dark of the night of 20 December, two Kenyan truck drivers met a blazing death. The men … [Read more...] about He who controls the sand: the mining ‘mafias’ killing each other to build cities
How miners, fishers are taking life out of Lake Victoria
JAMES RANDERSON | Wednesday March 1 2017 | Daily Nation Twenty meters under the ground, lit only by the torches strapped to their heads, a group of eight men are seeking their fortune. The cramped tunnels have been hewn out of the bare rock using hammers, chisels, bare hands and many days of their own toil. The goal: to strike it lucky by finding a rich seam of … [Read more...] about How miners, fishers are taking life out of Lake Victoria