Solicitor General okays termination of Kilembe Mines
Oct 24, 2017Tibet Hima Mining Company was supposed to process five million tonnes of copper ore per year but later requested to export bulk copper concentrates. In a meeting between Edwards Katto, the head of department of Geological Surveys and Mines, and the chair of the concessionaire, Li Wei Guo, the government gave seven conditions before any
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Smelting key to Uganda's copper industry
Feb 24, 2017SML No. 2151 is held by THMCOL under a Concession Agreement (C.A) between Governmentof Uganda, Kilembe Mines Limited and THMCOL to revamp copper mining at Kilembe and use best efforts to establish
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Chinese firm loses battle for Kilembe mines
Apr 21, 2018Tibet Hima loses a battle to keep its 25-year mining lease for copper and cobalt deposits in Kilembe mines in Kasese. This is the second Chinese company to lose lucrative deals in Uganda's oil, gas and mineral sector, after Guangzhou DongSong Energy Group Co Ltd lost the oil refinery bid due to failure to meet bidding requirements.
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copper mines in uganda
A profile of Copper Mining in Uganda with directories of companies, people, industry sectors, projects, facilities, news and events . Inquire Now; KASESE DISTRICT | Republic Of Uganda kasese go ug. Kasese district was formed in 1974 under the Provincial Kilembe Copper Mines well wishers and citizens of Uganda, I welcome you to Kasese District .
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Uganda Gov't takes back Kilembe Mines, approves new
Apr 03, 2019Uganda's Cabinet has approved plans for the redevelopment of Kilembe Mines in Kasese District, which they repossessed 2-years ago after the cancellation a 25-years concession it had granted to Chinese Firm Tibet Hima Mining Company. According to the Executive Director of the Uganda Media Centre, Ofwono Opondo, the move is aimed at
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Minerals in Uganda
Uganda is endowed with over 50 different types of minerals and it ranks among the countries in Africa with the biggest number of minerals although the potential for viable exploitation has not yet been established for most of the minerals. The country's list of minerals resources include; Copper, Cobalt, Tin, Phosphates, Vermiculite, Diamond
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Uganda: Mining, Minerals and Fuel Resources
Sep 24, 2012Hima Cement Ltd. completed its expansion project with the capacity increasing from 350,000 t/yr to 850,000 t/yr. Vermiculite production was restarted in May 2010 by Gulf Industrials Ltd. of Australia at its Namekara Mine with plans to increase capacity
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Kilembe mines rehabilitation starts
Jun 07, 2014Kilembe mines rehabilitation starts. 07/06/2014 TourismUganda 1 Comment. President Museveni tours Kilembe after the floods. After eight months of waiting Tibet Hima Company, the mining company that signed a concession with the Government, took over Kilembe Copper Mines from Kilembe Mines Ltd, which has been managing the mines since 1975.
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MINING IN AFRICA
Copper: Before the civil war, copper mining was a significant contributor to the Angolan economy and opportunities remain in this field for investors. Copper mining has occurred largely in the Mavoio region. MINING LAwS In Angola, the state owns minerals, as provided for in the country's Constitution.
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28 Nov 2013
Nov 28, 2013A Chinese firm, operating as Tibet-Hima Mining Company owned by Shanghai Baosteel Group and Chinalco Luoyang Copper, have reportedly bought stakes in Kilembe Copper Mines. According to an official at the Ministry of Finance Uganda, The Chinese firm is pledged to inject US $176m to resurrect Kilembe Mines and also to upgrade of Mobuku Power
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Kilembe Copper Mines sale back on
Feb 02, 2013Kilembe Copper Mines has among its assets a smelter, a five megawatt-hydro power plant and a lime factory. The company ceased mining and processing copper about two decades ago. At the mining company's inception in 1956, it confirmed about four million tonnes of ore with 1.98 tonnes of them being pure copper and 0.17 tonnes of cobalt.
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President Museveni Cancels Shs600 Billion Mining Project
Jun 27, 2017Tibet Hima Mining Co. Ltd (THMCOL), a Uganda registered company and a subsidiary of Tibet Automobile of China, won the 25-year mining contract and was supposed to extract at least 5,000,000 tonnes of copper in Kilembe, Kasese District.
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THE HISTORY OF MINING IN UGANDA
Artisanal mining in Uganda started with the discovery and establishment of a number of colonial gold and tin mines across South Western Uganda between the 1920s and 1950s when small‐scale mining was introduced to the indigenous Banyankole, Batoro, Bakiga, and other Bantu‐speaking tribes of
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Mining – Deep Earth International
Aug 25, 2017In December, 2015 alone, the Tibet-Hima consortium, that is running the Kilembe copper mines, has By Deep Earth. October 21, 2016. Mining Uganda, RT Global Resources agree on refinery details. Sipa Seeks Investors for Its Uganda Mining Project.
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UGANDA : Copper cobalt: major industrial hub on the
Jul 07, 2015A plan by the Chinese consortium Tibet Hima Mining Co to revive copper mining in Kilembe in October after a hiatus lasting over 30 years is going to turn the Kasese region in western Uganda into a - 07/07/2015
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Uganda: We Can't Mine Copper Anymore, So What's Wrong With
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Tibet Hima Mining Company Suspends
Mar 05, 2016Alex Kwatampora, the project manager, Tibet Hima Mining Company has confirmed the suspension of their operations. //Cue in: The Mill€. He says the NEMA report only affects the mill and the concentrator, where copper is processed. Kwatampora explains that the pipes from the disposal units were damaged leading to the leakage of copper
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Uganda seeks again to redevelop defunct
Apr 02, 2019The Uganda government is making another attempt to reopen a defunct copper mine estimated to contain 4 million tonnes of ore, it said on Tuesday, and several international firms have expressed interest in the project. Once a major producer of copper and cobalt, Kilembe was abandoned by Canadian firm Falconbridge in the 1970s when Uganda's
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Court verdict casts shadow over Kilembe Mines deal
Mar 31, 2021Government is yet to against the order for cancellation of the concession agreement for Kilembe Mines between the government of Uganda and Chinese firm, Tibet Hima Mining
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Luishire Minerals
Luishire Mining is a leading supplier and exporter of precious stones and minerals from Africa. In Partnership with small scale miners in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC). We work to create value for small scale miners by providing an avenue for marketing precious stones and metals to the Global Export Market.
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Nov 26, 2017Tibet-Hima workers in a workshop at Kilembe copper mines, Kasese, western Uganda. The mining industry is in desperate need of investment. Independent/Ronald Musoke FILE PHOTO. THIS WEEK: Government courts Indian investor for Kilembe mines
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Exploration Geologist with 9 years experience in the mining metals industry in Western and Eastern Africa. Consulted for Lafarge Holcim Uganda (Hima Cement Ltd). Supervised Diamond Drilling, Logging and Sampling of Limestone and Pozzolana (Cement materials) in Eastern and Western Uganda. Copper Gold Porphyry -Mining: Exploration
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Ugandan committee approves five bids for Kilembe Mines
Mar 21, 2013At least five international companies bidding for Kilembe Copper Mines in western Uganda have been approved by the cabinet subcommittee on privatisation, the Divestiture Reform and Implementation Committee, who has recommended each applicant to proceed to the final stage of the divestiture process
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Kilembe Mines Limited (KML) is a company Incorporated under the Company Act of Uganda and its shares are 99.06% owned by the Government of Uganda (GOU). KML operated a copper mine in Kasese (Western Uganda) and a copper smelting plant in Jinja (Eastern Uganda) from 1956 to 1982 when mining activities ceased.
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Samta Mines
It operates in Uganda and Congo through its two subsidiaries viz Samta Mines Minerals Uganda Ltd and Samta Natural Resources Congo SAS. Currently, Our Group possesses approximately 362 sq.km area in Democratic Republic of Congo and 3122 sq.km area of mining concessions in Uganda. In Congo, the concessions are in one of the most mineral rich
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Oct 10, 2021DRA Global Partners with Kamoa Copper SA on Elite Project. February 20, 2019. Projects. DRA Secures Front End Engineering Design for Yangibana Rare Earths Project. October 10, 2018. Sewage treatment plant at 's Shondoni Mine in South Africa now operational. August 1, 2017. Projects. Brics investors eye first joint mining project
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Impact of tailings from the Kilembe copper
The abandoned Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda is a source of contaminants, mobilised from mine tailings into R. Rukoki flowing through a belt of wetlands into Lake George.
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Chinese consortium to revive Uganda's copper mines
Jan 31, 2015Tibet Hima Industry Company Limited, a consortium of Chinese companies, is reviving copper mining in Kilembe after signing a concession agreement with the government of Uganda in 2013. The firm is to invest US$175 million in the mines in the first three years, which will go to resuscitating smelting, refining and product factory development.
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Uganda calls for bids in effort to re
Sep 19, 2019The search for a new investor follows the collapse of an agreement with a group led by China's Tibet Hima Mining. It had pledged to invest $175m after winning the concession in 2013, the newswire said. The search for fresh sources of copper has led to new investment in sub-Sahara's Botswana in the last two to three years.
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Sep 09, 2014Uganda: Copper stockpiles left after mine closure compromising access to water; includes company comments Tibet Hima Company, a consortium of Chinese companies took over management and operation of the Kilembe mines in a multi-million dollar deal but it appears cleaning up the waste was not part of the agreement
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The haunting legacy of Kilembe mines
May 30, 2018Uganda's mining story dates back to pre-colonial times, but gained momentum during the British colonial administration between 1902 and 1939. Konkola Copper Mines (Zambia), Tibet-Hima
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Kilembe mines closed over environmental non
Jan 09, 2017Copper mining at Kilembe mines in Kasese district has been put to a halt for close to a year now since the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) found out that there was non-compliance to environmental standards. NEMA wrote to the management of Tibet Hima, a mining company that took over Kilembe mines limited in June 2013 warning
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