The top executive and two other employees of Australia's gold mining company Resolute Mining have been arrested and detained by Mali’s military juntahas arrested the top executive and two other employees of Australia’s gold mining company Resolute Mining while they were visiting the country for talks over an unspecified dispute, the company said Monday.
Andrew Wray, the company’s non-executive chairman, said in a statement published on Resolute Mining's website that the three officials were “unexpectedly detained” after a discussions about “claims made against" the company, without elaborating.The Australian company has been working for years at Mali’s Syama gold mine, a large-scale operation in the country’s southwest. It holds an 80% stake in mine while the Malian government holds the remaining 20%.