Mozambique: Estevão Pale calls on mining companies to work with communities

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Mozambique: Estevão Pale calls on mining companies to work with communities

1:49 CAT | 03 Jun 2025

Photo: Ministério dos Recursos Minerais e Energia - Mireme

The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mozambique has encouraged legally constituted mining companies to work more closely with local communities near their areas of operation, thereby promoting inclusion, shared benefits and a sense of belonging, in order to transform mining into a true driver of territorial development.

Minister Estevão Pale made these statements in Maputo at the launch of the seventh edition of the Annual Gem Fair (FAGENA), which will take place from 23 to 25 October in the city of Nampula, under the motto “FAGENA, All for Sustainable Mining and the Promotion of Socio-Economic Development in Mozambique”.

FAGENA is organised and promoted by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mozambique (MIREME), and showcases mining extraction equipment and processing technologies.

The fair also constitutes a strategic platform for networking between investors, small-scale artisanal miners and licensed dealers in gold and gemstones.

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Speaking before members of the MIREME Advisory Board, its subordinate and supervised institutions and of representatives of mining companies, Minister Pale said that the fair was an example of the Mozambican government’s strategic vision for encouraging the formal production and marketing of minerals, gemstones and precious metals with a view to stopping smuggling and enabling the formalization of the value chain, ensuring fair taxation and promoting increased earnings for artisanal miners.

The Minister reiterated the need for the government to strengthen mining inspection and monitoring actions as a way of combating the illegal mining of precious and semi-precious stones.

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