Not wanting to have infrastructure costs cut into the profitability of their Guinean iron ore deposit Simandou, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and China's Chinalco are in talks to sell the site's first output to steel giant ArcelorMittal.
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To smooth over operational troubles at its port, which are holding back its bauxite project, Mori Diane has sought the services of UAE construction firm Ghantoot.
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Presented as crucial to Sodemi's very survival when launched two years ago ( AMI 389), the reform to the company [...]
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Alan Davies, the former director of energy and mines at Rio Tinto who was sacked over his role in the [...]
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Tensions have far from eased over the bauxite evacuation route that is Guinea's Pongo River. While China's Aluminium Corp of [...]
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Driven by a team of West African gold experts, Chesser Resources has embarked on a new drilling programme in Senegal.
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President Alpha Conde buddy and powerful businessman Kabinet Sylla has submitted a request for a bauxite research permit in Guinea's [...]
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The South African entrepreneur Ernest Blom who heads the eponymous Johannesburg-based diamond processing and trading firm Ernest Blom Diamonds (EBD), [...]
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Until now mainly active in Namibia, geologist Gilbert Jemwa has created a mining exploration firm in Angola, Kebanga Mining Corp. [...]
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In early July, Guinea's Societe miniere de Boke (SMB) temporarily [...]
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The platform being developed to help small and medium enterprises [...]
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Uganda is often accused of harbouring illegal exporters of tantalum, [...]
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Zambia's state-owned ZCCM-Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH), which is busy rolling out [...]
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Chapu Isseu Mucambe Guambe and Sizakele Ndlovu Catherina Chumane Guambe [...]
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Although Alphamin Resources's chairman Charles Needham, CEO Boris Kamstra and [...]
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Despite being directly handled by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute's office, the agreement for the south-east Cameroonian Mbalam iron ore [...]
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Appointed the new director general of tax for Burkina Faso on June 6, Moumouni Lougue struck straight into making measures [...]
With World Bank funding, Kitwe's Copperbelt University is preparing the [...]
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While Nigeria's mining registry office is once again open to [...]
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The ripple-on effect in Burkina Faso's mining sector from the [...]
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