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Metallurgical ContentGold AlloysGold Melting PointsRetortingGold SmeltingGold Refinery SlagRefining GoldGold AssayFluxMelting GoldCupellationGold-Silver SeparationGold Refining Book Gold can be concentrated and recovered by applying different gold refining process methods and the final product has variable quality. In this way, it is necessary to have a better marketable product so that the Get price

Illegal gold mining mafia in Uganda behind death threats

2020/6/30In the week ending 21 June 2020, several media houses reported that Uganda's State Minister for Minerals, Hon. Sarah Opendi, told the Parliament of Uganda that she had received death threats from anonymous people whom she described as "mafias promoting illegal gold mining." Get price

Uganda launches gold refinery, amid fears of dirty

2017/2/21A gold refinery primarily owned by a Belgian investor has been launched in Uganda amid concerns about the source of its minerals. The African Gold Refinery, worth $15m and the first of its kind in East Africa, has drawn the attention of activists who are concerned that dirty minerals from conflict-prone countries in the region will be among its raw materials. Get price

Gold mining to start in Uganda

Gold – about to come to Uganda Kampala, Uganda — MININGREVIEW.COM — 21 April 2008 – History will be made in Uganda later this year when the first gold mining operation is launched in the Mubende district of the central part of the country. Reporting on this Get price

Museveni's gold dealer in trouble

Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | President Yoweri Museveni commissioned it on Feb.20 amidst pomp and celebration, but just nine months later African Gold Refinery (AGR) has run into big trouble. Its Belgian owner, Alain Goetz, has been uncovered as a dealer in so-called "conflict or blood gold" and is being sued by the government's top financial anti-corruption agency and one of the Get price

Uganda exported gold worth Shs 1.3 trillion in March

Uganda exported gold worth $363 million (about Shs 1.3 trillion) in March alone, according to Bank of Uganda. This is the first time the country has exported gold worth that much in a single month. This brings the total export for the three months to March 2019 or Get price

UGANDA : Alain and Sylvain Goetz in new gold refining

2016/9/27A Belgian firm specializing in refining gold, Tony Goetz Sons, has taken a position in refining in Uganda.A new firm, Africa Gold Refinery, which has the backing of the brothers Alain Goetz and Sylvain Goetz who run the Belgian refinery, plans to inaugurate a gold refinery in Entebbe following an investment of tens of millions of dollars. Get price

Ugandan firm to open gold refinery by end of 2016

KAMPALA, Capital Markets in Africa: A Ugandan company backed by a Belgian investor is due to open the East African country's first gold refinery by the end of this year to process raw gold produced mainly from the region, a senior company official told Reuters. Get price

UGANDA : Martello Risk, Goetz's way to counter The

2018/11/6Belgian tycoon Alain Goetz, who has been accused in a report by American NGO The Sentry (read here) of refining - 06/11/2018 Belgian tycoon Alain Goetz, who has been accused in a report by American NGO The Sentry (read here) of refining illegally-smuggled conflict gold from eastern Congo-K in his Uganda refinery, may have found a way to fight back. Get price

Gold Fields production down

[img:Kloof%20shafts.thumbnail.JPG|The main shaft complex at Kloof gold mine]Johannesburg, South Africa --- MININGREVIEW.COM --- 10 May 2010 - Gold Fields Limited €' Africa's second- largest producer of the metal €' has revealed that its fiscal third-quarter output fell 12% because of safety stoppages and maintenance. "Production fell to 793 000 ounces from 900 000 ounces the Get price

UGANDA : Africa Gold Refinery swears to help diggers

2017/1/10The Africa Gold Refinery (AGR) project that the Belgian firm Tony Goetz Sons is developing intends to adopt a program to help local small-scale miners.Indeed, the company plans to offer both funding and equipment in the Karamoja area in northern Uganda, and in the Mubende region in the eastern part of the country. Get price

Uganda Gets Gold Refinery; The First In Sub Sahara Africa

The first high-capacity gold refinery in Sub-Saharan Africa according to chairman African Gold Refinery, retired politician Richard Kaijuka, is expected to play a major role in Uganda's growing mining industry. Kaijuka said refining gold and other minerals in Get price

African Gold Refinery Accused Of Tax Evasion Worth Shs

Mwiru claimed at a press conference today that late last month a gold consignment weighing 7 tons and worth USD 309 million was smuggled into the country from Venezuela by African Gold Refinery – the pioneer gold refinery in the country, — something police Get price

Smugglers Take Sheen From Uganda's Bright Gold

2017/7/19Gold shipments by East Africa's third largest economy surged to $204 million in the 2015/16 financial year, from $230,000 a year earlier, according to the Bank of Uganda. "For the first time the country registered an increase in exports just on account of that one Get price

UGANDA : Museveni wants a gold refinery to serve

2016/6/14Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state - 14/06/2016 Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state for energy Simon D'Ujanga, to sound out his counterparts in Kenya and Tanzania about building a gold refinery in the region. Get price

Uganda to launch gold refinery

Uganda is set to launch a gold refinery as the country looks to add value to one of its most popular minerals. This high-capacity gold refinery – the first of its kind in the Great Lakes region – is being rated as one of the landmark enterprises established in the country over the last century as it will play a major role in Uganda's burgeoning mining industry, according to a press Get price

Uganda: How illicit trade is affecting the gold sector

One of the companies facing investigation is Africa Gold Refinery (AGR) owned by wealthy Belgian businessman Alain Goetz. Goetz is a director or owner of 15 different companies located in Uganda, Dubai, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and eight of these have the same address in Get price

UGANDA : Africa Gold Refinery believes in its official

The CEO of Africa Gold Refinery (AGR) in Uganda, Alain Goetz, contacted The Indian Ocean Newsletter to inform us that the official launch of the AGR refinery will go ahead in December, launched by President Yoweri Museveni.The legal case against AGR at the Uganda Commercial Court brought by the Ugandan businessman Barnabas Taremwa did not block the company's operations. Get price

Uganda launches gold refinery, amid fears of dirty

2017/2/21A gold refinery primarily owned by a Belgian investor has been launched in Uganda amid concerns about the source of its minerals. The African Gold Refinery, worth $15m and the first of its kind in East Africa, has drawn the attention of activists who are concerned that dirty minerals from conflict-prone countries in the region will be among its raw materials. Get price

UGANDA : Martello Risk, Goetz's way to counter The

2018/11/6Belgian tycoon Alain Goetz, who has been accused in a report by American NGO The Sentry (read here) of refining - 06/11/2018 Belgian tycoon Alain Goetz, who has been accused in a report by American NGO The Sentry (read here) of refining illegally-smuggled conflict gold from eastern Congo-K in his Uganda refinery, may have found a way to fight back. Get price

Uganda Gets Gold Refinery; The First In Sub Sahara Africa

The first high-capacity gold refinery in Sub-Saharan Africa according to chairman African Gold Refinery, retired politician Richard Kaijuka, is expected to play a major role in Uganda's growing mining industry. Kaijuka said refining gold and other minerals in Get price

Uganda gold exports hit three

Shipments of gold had been negligible for Uganda but they started to rise sharply after a major refiner, Africa Gold Refinery, set up shop in 2016 near Entebbe airport. Three more gold refineries have recently been built in Uganda, stimulating the country's processing capacity and allowing Uganda to slowly emerge as a regional gold trading hub. Get price

UGANDA : Museveni's gold refinery will soon be in full

President Yoweri Museveni looks upon Uganda's first gold refinery, Africa Gold Refinery (AGR), very much as a flagship project that - 07/02/2017 President Yoweri Museveni looks upon Uganda's first gold refinery, Africa Gold Refinery (AGR), very much as a flagship project that can boost Kampala's earnings by capturing a lucrative market monopolized up to now by Dubai. Get price

Uganda to launch gold refinery

Uganda is set to launch a gold refinery as the country looks to add value to one of its most popular minerals. This high-capacity gold refinery – the first of its kind in the Great Lakes region – is being rated as one of the landmark enterprises established in the country over the last century as it will play a major role in Uganda's burgeoning mining industry, according to a press Get price

Sudan opens first gold refinery

[img:Gold%20in1_0.jpg|Gold €' Sudan opens its first refinery]Khartoum, Sudan --- 20 September 2012 - The government of Sudan has opened its first gold refinery as it seeks to improve the quality of its rising gold exports, and to offset the economic damage inflicted by the loss of most of its oil revenues. The country is increasing its gold production after losing three quarters of its Get price

UGANDA : Museveni wants a gold refinery to serve

2016/6/14Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state - 14/06/2016 Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state for energy Simon D'Ujanga, to sound out his counterparts in Kenya and Tanzania about building a gold refinery in the region. Get price

UGANDA : Museveni wants a gold refinery to serve

2016/6/14Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state - 14/06/2016 Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has asked his minister of state for energy Simon D'Ujanga, to sound out his counterparts in Kenya and Tanzania about building a gold refinery in the region. Get price

Museveni launches gold refinery, to abolish royalty tax

President Yoweri Museveni on Monday commissioned Uganda's first gold refinery with a promise to abolish royalty taxes to boost the sector. The newly-built $20 million African Gold Refinery in Entebbe, is the first of its kind in the region and has the capacity of processing up to 300 kg of gold weekly. It has been in operation since 2014 Get price