{"id":5205,"date":"2014-07-31T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:58:58","slug":"5205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=5205","title":{"rendered":"Mali cancels 130 mining permits after sector audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5206\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mali.jpg\" alt=\"mali\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" data-id=\"5206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mali.jpg 400w, https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mali-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong>By Bate Felix<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Business Day (South Africa)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Mali has cancelled 130 mining permits, about 30% of existing permits in the gold-producing West African nation, in a drive to clean up the sector, a mines ministry official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The new government said in September that it would carry out a complete inventory of existing mining contracts, titles and licences and was ready to renegotiate permits that were not in the country\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The cancelled licences include a range of permits covering a surface area of about 13,000 square kilometres, but do not involve mines already in production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/africa\/africanbusiness\/2014\/07\/31\/mali-cancels-130-mining-permits-after-sector-audit\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali has cancelled 130 mining permits, about 30% of existing 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