Among the projects featured in this issue are two in West Africa. One is the Yaouré gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, which will be the third mine of Perseus Mining, and the other is the Tongo diamond project of Newfield Resources in Sierra Leone. Both are now into the construction phase. We also have coverage of the recent Africa Mining Summit in Gaborone, as well as an in-depth article on a rockfall protection solution at Foskor’s open-pit mine in Phalaborwa.

This month’s issue has a wide spread of content, with articles featuring copper (the new Kakula mine in the DRC), coal (the design and construction of new hardstand stockpile areas at Grootegeluk), manganese (the K Hill project in Botswana) and gold (the Bomboré project in Burkina Faso).

In our comprehensive news section we look at the latest results and news from companies such as Lucara, which operates diamond mines in Angola and Lesotho; Minergy, Botswana’s new coal producer; HPX, which has acquired the Nimba iron ore project in Guinea; and Botswana Diamonds, which has used new technology to detect buried kimberlites at its Thorny River project in South Africa.

With the digitalisation of mining operations being the subject of intense discussion in the mining industry at the moment, we take a look in this issue at the Exxaro’s digital journey and also on the progress being made by Resolute on its highly advanced Syama Underground Mine in Mali.

Also covered in this issue are the Nokeng Fluorspar Mine of SepFluor and the Tiris uranium project in Mauritania. Nokeng, officially opened earlier this month (August), is South Africa’s newest mine, while Tiris is regarded by its developer, Aura Energy, as one the most attractive uranium projects in the world at the current time due to its low capex and operating costs.

In this month’s issue we have a country focus on Botswana. Taking pride of place is a report on Cupric Canyon’s US$397 million Zone 5 copper/silver underground mine, forming part of the overall Khoemacau project, but also covered are a flake graphite discovery south of Francistown by Tonota Resources and plans for a new bulk sampling programme by Tsodilo Resources at its BK16 property in the Orapa Kimberlite Field.

In this month’s issue we have a regional focus on West Africa, in which we cover the Wahgnion and Sanbrado gold projects, both currently under construction in Burkina Faso, the planned Namdini gold mine in Ghana and the Mako gold mine in Senegal, now in its second year of operation and consistently beating its budgets.