Via Metal Bulletin:
The government of Afghanistan has picked a consortium comprising Sterling Mining and Belhasa International Co. LLC as the preferred bidder for its Zarkashan copper-gold project, completing the series of mineral tenders it issued a year ago.
The parties will now finalise a mining agreement, Wahidullah Shahrani, the country’s minister of mines said in a statement. “They will then deliver their work programme at Zarkashan and use the experience they have gained in other regions to make meaningful contributions” to local development.