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 During the first Mining Forum ever held in Kenya, Mining Cabinet Secretary Dan Kazungu said his country will strive to have more organized mining sector.   Among the first steps the government will implement to work towards that goal is conducting a year-long airborne survey to map mine . . .

 Kenya will appoint a company by December to conduct a year-long airborne survey to map its mineral deposits to attract mining explorers to the nascent sector, Mining Cabinet Secretary Dan Kazungu said on Wednesday.   Kazungu said the ministry has initial funding of Sh3 billion from the . . .

 The government says it will spend Sh3 billion to map out mineral sites with the aim of identifying all minerals as part of the country's industrialization strategy.   "The process will begin immediately because the cash was factored in the current financial year," said Mining Cabinet Se . . .

 Base Resources Ltd of Australia expects prices of titanium oxide mined in Kwale county on Kenya’s Coast to improve in the months leading to 2017.   The firm, which started production at the Kwale mineral sands project late 2013 has in the past one year been affected by depressed t . . .

 Kenya has drafted 14 mining regulations to strengthen the government's capacity to manage exploration and extraction of minerals.   The proposed Minerals and Mining Policy recently approved by the Cabinet, is anchored in the Mining Act, 2016, which came into effect on May 27.   " . . .