Foreign interests which lend money against future production have been quietly tightening their grip on Zaire's mining industry in recent times (AEM 144). But the trend has now gathered major momentum with an agreement that will enable Anglo American Corporation [.
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The independent Australian firm Moonstone Diamond Corporation has widened its foothold in South Africa's diamond industry with an agreement that [...]
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An American mine engineering consultancy, Casmyn Corporation, has picked Zimbabwe for its debut on the production side. The Nevada-based firm [...]
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Zaire's arrears on its ADB debt amount to $400M along with some $11M owed to the African Development Fund, according [...]
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A porphyry copper deposit at Haib in southern Namibia near the South African border could be put into production towards [...]
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After gaining a foothold in Africa with a somewhat successful diamond exploration project in Zimbabwe, the Canadian company Reunion Mining [...]
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Pierre Goossens, managing director of Bugeco, has written to AEM [...]
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Statistics for the European Union as a whole published by [...]
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After long and arduous bargaining, Rössing Uranium and the Mineworkers [...]
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Wood Mackenzie believes the next peak in Angola's production will occur in 1998 and reach 780,000 bpd. In a new [...]
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Zaire's oil production is edging upwards and should pass the 30,000 bpd mark this year after reaching an average of [...]
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Operator British Gas Tunisia has put the Miskar offshore gas field into production. Along with a rise in deliveries of [...]
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A project backed by the IDA (World Bank) to develop Mozambique's Pande gas field has got underway. But despite a [...]
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Nomeco, formerly Walter International, which operates on the Alba field, [...]
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State-controlled TPDC says that negotiations are at an advanced stage [...]
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Cabinda Gulf (Chevron) has released the jack-up Petrobras XI rather [...]
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Global Marine Integrated Services has won a turnkey contract that [...]
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Nomeco, formerly Walter International, which teamed up with Nuevo Corporation [...]
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A decision on whether Gabon will withdraw from OPEC (AEM [...]
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Rising demand in the West African offshore has persuaded Global [...]
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Work on restoring the nominal, 17,000 bpd capacity of the [...]
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Yngvar Heide, a Norwegian national who was general manager of [...]
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European imports of African crude in 1994 rose by 4.5% [...]
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Exports by French electricity equipment manufacturers rose by 13.3% last year to reach Ffr13.3 billion ($2.6 billion). The biggest advance [...]
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NORAD and BITS, the Norwegian and Swedish development agencies, have just agreed to bankroll a feasibility study on the controversial [...]
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Endesa will team up with Electricite de France and the [...]
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A consortium made up of the South African company Rotex [...]
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The Tunisian government which is known to be keen on [...]
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