Rodgers Muema Nzioka v. Tiomin Kenya Ltd

Sep 21, 2001· The plaintiffs in this case sought an injunction to restrain a mining company from carrying out acts of titanium mining in Kwale District. They acted on behalf of other plaintiffs who were mere ordinary rural farming inhabitants of the area of Kwale now designated for mining. They stated that when titanium was discovered there the mining company promised a reasonable compensation to land

Titanium Mining in the Kwale District, Kenya

Tiomin Resources Inc., the Canadian firm that owns Tiomin Kenya Limited, offered compensation of US$120 and US$30 per hectare transferred and rented, respectively. Since 2009, Tiomin Kenya Limited was owned up to 70% by the Chinese mining conglomerate Jinchuan. It is finally Base Resources Limited (Australia) which in 2013 kicked off the project.

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Case on mining Rogers Muema Nzioka & 2 others v Tiomin Kenya Ltd Civil Case No. 97 of 2001, Kenya, Hayanga J Tiomin Kenya Ltd, the Defendant was a local company and a fully owned subsidiary of the Canadian Company Tiomin Resources Incorporated. The company had obtained licenses to prospect for minerals.

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TIOMIN Resources Inc., of Canada, through its wholly owned Kenyan subsidiary, Kenya Titanium Minerals Ltd., is proposing to develop a titanium sands mine and mineral processing plants which will

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Abuya, W.O., 2016. Mining conflicts and corporate social responsibility: titanium mining in Kwale, Kenya. The Extractive Industries and Society, 3(2), pp.485-493.

Base Titanium in a standoff with Kwale residents

Nov 25, 2019· Base Titanium, an Australian Company with both prospecting and mining license in Kenya since July 2010 and expiring in 2025 took over from Canadian based Company Tiomin Limited Company that had

Tiomin now abandons Kwale titanium project

Dec 29, 2009· Tiomin Resources has moved to cut losses after suffering setbacks in starting mining operations at the coastal town of Kwale. The company has .

Kenya: mine all mine.

Nov 01, 2000· Unfortunately for Mutula, his farm borders the site of a proposed titanium mining project, to be carried out by the Toronto-based Tiomin Resources Inc. Since 1997, the Canadian company has conducted exploration activities on 56 square kilometres in the area.

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Jul 29, 2019· Base Resources took over mining rights from Tiomin Kenya Limited, a subsidiary of Tiomin Resources Incorporated in Canada, in July 2010 before injecting about Ksh16 billion to revive the mineral mining business. ALSO READ: Goldplat Plc considers selling Migori mine

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This article contributes to this debate by examining the place of CSR in Kenya's nascent titanium mining industry. Through an ethno-ecological lens, it examines the extent to which CSR has managed to assuage the disaffection of the local community with the mining operations of the company Tiomin (K).

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Tiomin Kenya Limited the Defendant Company is agent of Tiomin Resources Inc. of Canada and so licences Numbers B/7295/9025 are being assigned to Tiomin Kenya Limited and in any case Mining Act Cap 306 allows prospector to act through an agent. The Defendant says that the

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Tiomin, for instance, has also faced opposition and criticism from a coalition of local communities and organizations called the Coast Mining Rights Forum (CMRF) in response to a proposed titanium mine in Kenya. Tiomin claims to have distributed over 100 copies of their environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for local community review.

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In Kenya, Davies and Osano (2005) identified artisanal mining as an unregulated activity comprising the mining of construction materials, among other products. Artisanal dimension stone is one

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The esteemed position of the media as the watchdog in public affairs and the moral conscience of the nation truly came out during the campaign against titanium mining in Kenya. It was the media who first highlighted the presence of titanium deposits in Kwale in 1996 and thereby introduced Tiomin to Kenya.

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Kenya has no guidelines, regulations, or protections governing mining and, with international investment flagging, its government has welcomed Tiomin's extensive mining project despite the threat it poses to the environment and indigenous people.

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Tiomin Resources: a controversial mining in Kenya (06/01

May 27, 2005· Tiomin Resources: a controversial mining in Kenya (06/01) At least a quarter of the half million people who live in Kenya's Kwale district, near the Indian Ocean coast, eventually may be evicted to make way for a controversial mining project by the Canadian firm Tiomin Resources Inc. The rest, and others living along the coast, could face

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Titanium Mining in the Kwale District, Kenya

Tiomin Resources Inc., the Canadian firm that owns Tiomin Kenya Limited, offered compensation of US$120 and US$30 per hectare transferred and rented, respectively. Since 2009, Tiomin Kenya Limited was owned up to 70% by the Chinese mining conglomerate Jinchuan. It is finally Base Resources Limited (Australia) which in 2013 kicked off the project.

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The Government has granted Tiomin Kenya rights to mine titanium at Kwale on Kenya's southern coast. There have been numerous calls for liberalisation of mining. In Kenya, limestone is the principle material quarried, alongside sandstone, soapstone, granite, marble and gypsum.

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Jan 01, 2009· China is set to invest heavily in a flagship project. Chinese mining firm Jinchuan has acquired a 70% stake in Tiomin Kenya Limited (TKL) in a bid to revive a project located in Kenya's coastal region. A statement from the Canadian ‐based mining firm, Tiomin on September 4th said Jinchuan had acquired the controlling equity interest in Tiomin Kenya, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tiomin .

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Mar 27, 2018· Kenya's 2016 mining act outlaws the use of mercury. But there are no easily available alternatives and many of its 250,000 small-scale gold miners - mostly in western Kenya .

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Tiomin Mining Company has already entered into agreement with the Kenyan Government to undertake mining at Kwale near Diani beach, which started in early 2006 and is estimated to continue for 11 years. Kenya's coast supports tourism, a crucial industry that earns the country 15% of its foreign exchange earnings and an astonishing 24% of

Civil Case 97 of 2001

That Tiomin Kenya Limited the defendant company is agent of Tiomin Resources Inc. of Canada and so licences Numbers B/7295/9025 are being assigned to Tiomin Kenya Limited and in any case Mining Act Cap 306 allows prospector to act through an agent.

Jinchuan acquires majority interest in Tiomin Kenya

Sep 28, 2009· Tiomin Resources has signed an investment agreement with one of China's largest companies, the Jinchuan group, with the latter gaining control of the Kwale mineral sands project in Kenya. This agreement will see Jinchuan acquire a controlling equity interest in Tiomin Kenya Limited (TKL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tiomin that owns 100% of the Kwale mineral sands project. .

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Tiomin Mining Company has already entered into agreement with the Kenyan Government to undertake mining at Kwale near Diani beach, which started in early 2006 and is estimated to continue for 11 years.

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Titanium Mining in the Kwale District, Kenya EJAtlas. 30/12/2015 A coalition formed of local communities and human rights organizations called Coast Mining Rights Forum opposed the megaproject, as it called for the displacement of 5,000 indigenous Digo and Kamba people and would contaminate local soil and aquifers with heavy metals In 200809, the Tiomin company tried to sell the .

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The paper is based on a case study from the Titanium Mining Campaign in Kwale, Kenya. Some of the key lessons learnt from this paper include: ways in which the campaign brought together diverse players working against major obstacles in a bid to counter Tiomin and its allies

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totally depleted by mining and currently the repository for tailings from the South Dune) and the North Dune (currently the subject of preliminary feasibility study) deposits (Figure 8). The project was initially owned by Tiomin Resources Inc. (Tiomin) which conducted drilling in .

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Don't Let Titanium Become The Curse Of Kwale

Don't Let Titanium Become The Curse Of Kwale Opinion by Sam Wainaina, The East African (Nairobi), 18 January 2001 Nairobi - The government is in dire need of foreign funds and the titanium mining venture by Tiomin Kenya Ltd, a subsidiary of Tiomin Resources Inc of Canada, will get government clearance to go on with the project whether environmentalists in Kenya or local people in Kwale

MERGER: Tiomin to acquire Vaaldiam

Jan 24, 2010· Tiomin says diamond mining will resume with targets of 20,000 ct in 2010 and 40,000 ct in 2011. The move to diamonds is a significant departure for Tiomin, a company that previous pinned its hopes on the Kwale titanium project in Kenya and its half-interest in the Pukaqaqa copper-gold deposit in .

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The mining industry needs skilled workers in information technology, accounting, and any number of other occupations. Timmins city councillor Steve Black brought greetings on behalf of the City and Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren, who was out-of-town. In a written statement, Laughren congratulated the WIM for their efforts in coming to Timmins.

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