Sitting on a cash pile, Algeria’s national oil company, Sonatrach, is involving itself increasingly in the mining industry. The government wants to see the sector, which is largely undeveloped, benefit from the guarantee that Sonatrach can offer investors.
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The runaway rise in raw materials prices has prompted juniors to float on stock markets but also led equity funds to invest in them. Indeed, find the market less risky. One of the first to have launched a private equity [.
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De Beers boss Nicky Oppenheimer will chair the South African side of the Business Council of Russia and South Africa [...]
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The La Quinta Resources Corp. has named a new chief executive officer, Malcolm Swallow, a few weeks after acquiring a [...]
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The chair of Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Cosmas Niagwam, has been asked by mines minister Leslye Obiora [...]
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A Namibian national who holds a degree in mining engineering from the Camborne School of Mining in the United Kingdom, [...]
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The chairman of the Tanzania Chamber of Minerals and Energy, Ami Mpungwe, has found himself in the thick of action [...]
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Major changes were made at the top at Mittal Steel South Africa (Mittal Steel SA) last week following the resignation [...]
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Eland Platinum, which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, [...]
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Sinopec, the China National Petroleum Corp, has won a tender [...]
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Namdeb, the joint venture between De Beers and the Namibian [...]
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Barrick Gold has sold its 50% holding in the South [...]
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In anticipation of the release of the film "The Blood [...]
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India’s Tata group has reached a partnership accord with Zambia [...]
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Britain’s DFID isn’t alone in investing in the reconstruction of [...]
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The world’s leading iron producer, Brazil’s CVRD, took advantage of [...]
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The South African railway company Transnet plans to go along [...]
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The black empowerment firm Wesizwe has just raised 65 million [...]
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The sale of 20,000 shares in First Quantum Minerals. by [...]
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Uranium One Africa has been granted a 350 million rand [...]
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Global Alumina, a firm headed by Bruce Wrobel and Karim [...]
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Kinross Gold Corp no longer holds a stake in Katanga [...]
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The fourth annual congress staged by London’s Mining Journal, the [...]
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The Electra Mining Africa Fair will bringing mining and construction [...]
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UTC’s Centre de Transfer is organizing a forum on scientific [...]
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