Confirmed in late April, Anglo American's acquisition of Reunion Mining in the midst of the South African group's global rush towards base metals (AEM 250) triggered a new episode in Gabon, where the small British mining company was to have [.
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The state-owned Tunisian utility STEG managed to generate a maximum capacity of 1400 MW on its grid last year, some [...]
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When Magnesium Alloys Corporation (MAC) signed an agreement in early 1998 for its project to develop a magnesium mine from [...]
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Eskom recently signed an agreement with HTR, a joint venture [...]
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Despite efforts by Libya's oil minister, Abdullah Salem al Badri, to woo American companies (AEM 250) U.S. trade sanctions against [...]
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Among the cards placed on the table by Libya in negotiations with ENI on the Italian group's major trans-Mediterranean gas [...]
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A feasibility study on the West African Gas Pipeline project that the scheme's promoters handed to the German company Pipeline [...]
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Semi-official sources in Brazzaville believe that investment in Congo in general and in the oil industry in particularly won't be [...]
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Elf and its partners on block 17 were to have [...]
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AEM has learned from oil services circles that Elf is [...]
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An agreement between Sasol and Chevron on gas-to-liquids cooperation announced [...]
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The semi Omega is currently leaving Barbados en route probably [...]
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Arco is evaluating bids for provision of a land rig [...]
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Mobil has a requirement for a semi to drill up [...]
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Total will use the deepwater semi Sedco 709 as previously [...]
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Sedco Forex has now opted not to cold stack its [...]
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On May 18 president Charles Taylor signed a contract giving the U.S. company Freedom Gold a 900 sq.km. exploration concession [...]
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Namibian Minerals Corp., a Toronto listed offshore diamond miner, has managed to thwart the merger of two Cape Town-based rivals, [...]
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Expected for quite some time, BHP's withdrawal from the Hartley platinum and associated metals mine has been confirmed, largely dashing [...]
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With Gecamines' creditors impounding its shipments of cobalt, the Congo's mines ministry has moved in its turn to seize a [...]
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In a report submitted to the U.N. Security council on June 4, Robert Fowler, chairman of the U.N.'s Angola Committee [...]
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Australia's Athlone International has made its debut in South Africa's [...]
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The European Development Fund has declared that Zambia is eligible [...]
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Ashanti Goldfields Corp. has been given a gold exploration permit [...]
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Hargraves Resources, a small Australian mining company that was taken [...]
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With gold prices plunging below the average cost of production,. [...]
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The Industrial Development Corporation, which promotes investment in various parts [...]
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Anglo American Corp. of Zimbabwe has won control of the [...]
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