Mining

April 1, 2025

Banaga-Baingi Appointed Uganda National Mining Company CEO

After serving in acting capacity for several months, Dr. Gerald Banaga-Baingi has now been officially appointed the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the newly formed Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC), after beating a number of applicants to the key position. His tenure will take effect fro…

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March 28, 2025

Australia’s eMetals Targets Busia Gold Project

Australia’s eMetals Limited has kicked off its exploration campaign at a potential gold deposit area in Busia district, which is close to Uganda’s eastern border with Kenya, the company announced today. The company says it recently collected soil samples from the area and sent them to a laboratory i…

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March 23, 2025

EU, Germany Offer €6m To Support Uganda’s Mining As Critical Minerals’ Demand Increases

The European Union Delegation to Uganda (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), have put up €6.25 million to support Uganda’s mining industry, under a project called Sustainable Development of the Mining Sector in Uganda (SDMU). The 33 months project that…

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January 14, 2025

Banaga-Baingi Is National Mining Company CEO

Dr Gerald Banaga-Baingi, the Assistant Commissioner, Technical Planning at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, will serve as acting chief executive officer (CEO) at the newly formed Uganda National Mining Company (UNMC) until a substantive CEO is appointed. Ruth Nankabirwa, the Energy Mi…

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January 10, 2025

Blencowe Kicks Off Final Drilling At Orom-Cross

Blencowe Resources Plc has kicked off the final round of drilling at its Orom-Cross graphite project in northern Uganda as the company moves closer to completing its Definitive Feasibility Study. The UK company, in an announcement made yesterday January 9, says the 6,750-metre drilling programme is …

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December 23, 2024

Uganda Targets Gold Refiners In New Licensing Rules

Companies dealing in the refining or smelting of minerals in Uganda have up to 60 days to acquire licenses from the ministry of Energy and Mineral Development or face the prospect of doing time in prison, according to a public statement issued today. The new rules come just over 10 years after Ugand…

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December 21, 2024

Blaze To Start Drilling Ntungamo Project In January 2025

Blaze Minerals Limited, a junior mining firm in Australia, says it will start drilling the Ntungamo mining project on January 25, 2025, the first time that such an activity will take place at that particular site. Blaze says it has identified several drilling targets over the 60 square kilometer-ten…

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October 3, 2024

Sipa Winding Up Uganda Operations

Sipa Resources Limited, the Australian company that once raised the hopes of Uganda’s extractives industry when it attracted global mining giant, Rio Tinto, as its partner in the country a few years ago, has announced that it is winding up its activities in Uganda. The company’s announcement brings …

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September 20, 2024

EMetals Values Mubende Gold Project at $3.4 Million

Nearly two months after it agreed to acquire a gold project in Mubende district, Australian junior mining firm EMetals Limited has today released its first financial assessment of its new potential asset, revealing that there is probably more gold in the area than it had earlier anticipated. EMetals…

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September 7, 2024

Blencowe Signs MOU For New Graphite Refining Company

A new private company will be incorporated in Uganda to refine graphite for use in electric batteries, Blencowe Resources, the operator of the Orom Cross graphite project in the northern Uganda district of Kitgum, has announced. The announcement came after Blencowe signed a Memorandum of Understandi…

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September 3, 2024

Potential Clients From Japan, South Korea Assess Uganda’s Orom Graphite

Blencowe Resources Plc, the operators of the Orom-Cross project in the northern Uganda district of Kitgum, has shipped its first consignment of processed graphite flake to potential customers in Japan and South Korea, the company announced yesterday. This was after the last internal tests on the gra…

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August 11, 2024

Ashaba Succeeds Mweheire As UCMP Chairperson

Aggrey Ashaba is the new chairperson of the governing council at the Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP), succeeding Patrick Mweheire. Ashaba, the CEO at Alliad (formerly GCC Services), has been serving as the Chamber’s general secretary since June 2021. He will be deputized by Pamela Natam…

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