Exclusive interview with Aleksandra Cholewa, Director of Investment and Development at Luma Holdings LTD; LuNa Smelter, Rwanda. Ms. Cholewa is responsible for supervision and coordination of the international projects run within the group in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Slovakia as well as in Africa. She has a vast experience in the mining sector, especially in the mining machinery equipment as well as the use of modern industrial explosives for mining. Aleksandra is also an ambassador for East and Central Africa Mining Forum as well LuNa Smelter being a gold sponsor of the event.

Dr. Tony Harwood is the President and CEO of Montero Mining and is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in mining. Tony has a BSc (Hons) and PhD degree in Economic Geology from the University of Wales, UK. He has focused on exploration, mine development and mining principally in Africa, working for major and junior mining companies as a principle or consultant although he has worked all over the world. He has listed 3 public companies in the last 10 years on the TSX and ASX

Exclusive interview with Mr FRANCIS GATARE, CEO of the Rwanda Mining, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) talks to Mining Review Africa about the country’s focus on rapidly building its mining sector and what it hopes to achieve.