Chinese gold miners in Ghana who hid in forests or locals’ homes from a government crackdown are retreating with the help of representatives sent by the Chinese government and embassy. Officials with the Chinese embassy and Shanglin county of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where most of the miners are from, are rescuing miners trapped at different mining sites. Li Jun, an official from the Shanglin government’s office in the [...]

China’s Foreign Ministry asks mine workers to adhere to local laws China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on all Chinese citizens in Ghana to abide by local laws, after 124 Chinese workers allegedly involved in illegal mining were detained this week in Accra, the West African country’s capital. Shanglin’s mining tradition Shanglin, a State-level impoverished county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, contributes around 90 percent of the Chinese miners in [...]

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) on Wednesday said 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners had been detained in Accra, the capital of the West African country. Francis Palmdeti, head of public affairs of the GIS, told Xinhua that the Chinese were involved in illegal gold mining in the central region of Ashanti, as well as in western and eastern regions. Representatives from the Chinese embassy in Ghana visited the detention house [...]

Geologists have discovered a large tungsten mine in east China’s Jiangxi Province, officials said Thursday. More than 1 million tonnes of tungsten and associated copper have been found at the mine in the Zhuxi mineral area of Fuliang County in the northeast part of the province, said Peng Zezhou, chief of the provincial geology and mineral resources exploration bureau. The Ministry of Land and Resources confirmed the discovery on Wednesday [...]

Geological workers have discovered a large gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officials said on Tuesday. With gold reserves of at least 53 tonnes, the mine in Xinyuan County in the Ili Valley is expected to have an economic value of 20 billion yuan (3.2 billion U.S. dollars), said Zeng Xiaogang, head of the region’s geology and mineral resources bureau. Covering a length of 3 km and [...]

China and ASEAN countries signed seven mining cooperation agreements valued at about 16.3 billion yuan ($2.59 billion) during the China-ASEAN Mining Cooperation Forum and Exhibition over the weekend. The event, co-hosted by Chinese resource and commerce authorities and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region government, was held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, from Friday to Sunday. The event, on the theme “technological cooperation and scientific development of the mining industry”, attracted [...]

CHINA will establish large rare earth companies quickly as the government continues to regulate the industry that had been plagued by smuggling and illegal exploration. This year, the government will accelerate the formation of such large groups and continue to crack down on unauthorized exploration and mining, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement yesterday as it cited Vice Minister Su Bo’s comments made at a [...]

China was the world’s most acquisitive nation in mining and metals in 2012 and is expected to continue to lead merger and acquisition (M&A) activities in the sector in 2013, underscoring its counter-cyclical investment strategy, a report by a leading global consulting firm showed Tuesday. China saw 147 mining and metals deals completed worldwide in 2012 with a total value of $21.7 billion, accounting for 21 percent of the total [...]

The government has reiterated its backing of Chinese companies investing in Africa, particularly in energy and mining industries where jobs can be created and local communities improved. Zhong Manying, director general of the Department of West Asian and African Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce, said on Wednesday that during the recent visit to the continent by President Xi Jinping, more than 20 economic and trade cooperation agreements were sealed [...]

Global producers said they will continue to invest in China because the country’s urbanization and industrialization will continue to support iron ore demand. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, Australia’s third-biggest iron ore producer, will invest $10 billion to expand its iron ore production capacity to meet the growing demand mainly from China, said the company’s CEO Neville Power on Sunday during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference held in South [...]