The first South African group to see its old mining rights converted into new ones in South African, Lonmin is now expecting the World Bank to buy a stake in its business. Unlike its South African rivals Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) [.
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The Senegalese government has rejected a bid by the Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative (IFFCO) to buy out all of Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS) as well as the Matam phosphates deposit. At present IFFCO owns 19.
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The chairman of BHP Billiton South Africa, Vincent Maphal, has proposed setting up a forum to improve ties between the [...]
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A British geologist, Gordon Siddeley, has joined Canada’s Castillian Resources Corp as its vice president for exploration. Siddeley is a [...]
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A former mining analyst and manager of the "Select Gold Fund," a fund run by the Boston-based Fidelity Investments group, [...]
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Zambia’s new mines minister, Maxwell Mwale, who was named to the post in a government re-shuffle on Oct. 9, has [...]
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The Sierra Leone Diamond Co (SLDC) has poached an executive working for a direct competitor. Owned by Frank Timis, SLDC [...]
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An Antwerp diamond trader, Jacques Lewy, is to advise Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp on the valuation and marketing of diamonds. [...]
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A former Canadian legislator and Canada’s honorary consul in Namibia, Walter McLean is going to assist the Yale Resources mining [...]
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Banro Corporation has been approached by several mining firms interested [...]
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Gold Fields plans to float on the recently-established Dubai International [...]
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De Beers is expected to complete negotiations on renewing its [...]
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Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete has appointed Dalay Peter Kafumu as [...]
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Officials from Africa’s leading diamond producing countries met in Windhoek [...]
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Foreign mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo [...]
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SouthernEra Resources has just adopted a new strategy to quickly [...]
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Mwana Africa plans to buy back 26 million of its [...]
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Standard Bank has granted a 220 million rand ($29 million) [...]
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Golden Star (Bogoso/Prestea), the Ghanaian affiliate of the U.S. firm [...]
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Relations between Central African Republic and the World Bank are [...]
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The 4th annual congress of London's Mining Journal, the Mines [...]
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The city of Antsirabe in Madagascar will play host between [...]
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ESIPP, the investment promotion programme adopted by the Southern African [...]
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