JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Gold miner La Mancha on Tuesday said fighting between Sudan, where its flagship Hassai mining complex is located, and South Sudan has had no effect on the company’s mining activities.
The Hassai gold operation had not lost a day of production in its 20-years-plus life owing to political disturbances and the recent troubles were no different, senior corporate development VP Martin Amyot told Mining Weekly Online from Paris.
“I do not believe the political unrest will affect our mining activities, as it is located very far north of the tension points on the border,” he said.
The latest clashes erupted after South Sudanese forces seized control of the disputed Heglig oil fields, located in lands claimed by both Sudan and newly independent South Sudan in the province of South Kordofan. Read more here...
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