A host of consultants joined the usual crowd of miners at talks on cobalt given at the OECD's 12th Forum on responsible mineral supply chains held in Paris this April. With cobalt reaching almost $89,000/tonne by early May, buyers, operators [.
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The indictment on March 29 of Areva's former head of mines, French businessman Sébastien de Montessus (see here), eclipsed the [...]
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The uncomfortably close perimeters of the bauxite permits operated by British firm Alufer Mining and Chinese public group China Power [...]
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After securing two gold permits in Burkina Faso via Aforo, Michael Higgins and Chris Rashleigh are now seeking an entry into Mali's gold sector with Panthera.
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Goma-based Metachem, which is already a sizeable player in the trading and processing of tin, tantalum and tungsten (the 3Ts) [...]
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The already tense relations between the Congolese government and Australian firm MMG, which quit the Congolese employer organisation Federation des [...]
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Ugandan uranium is in increasingly hot demand from foreign operators. While high inventory levels and subsequent low prices had seen [...]
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Many companies would like to gain control of Abidjan's seaport mineral terminal as they see potential in the Ivory Coast's mining sector, but Sea-Invest has managed to stay firmly in command.
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To have its status upgraded from meaningful progress to satisfactory [...]
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Strengthening the State's pre-emption right in the transfer of mining [...]
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The appointment of Idris Kikula at the head of the [...]
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In mid-March, Ivorian economist Brigitte Bocoum founded BB Resources & [...]
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Mining engineer and lecturer at Mozambique's Instituto Superior Politecnico de [...]
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Although Groupe Forrest International (GFI) and the Congolese state-owned company Gecamines officially put an end to their dispute over the [...]
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