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Africa
Macquarie Bank's High-Risk Investments

Macquarie Bank's acquisition of a 10% stake in the Adamus Resources company last month confirms the high-risk strategy adopted by the Australian bank [...]

Published on 11/12/2002 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Mining

Ghana
Red Back Woos Ashanti

Australia’s Red Back Mining has broken off negotiations with Ashanti [...]

Subscribers only 09.07.2001

Tanzania
Resolute’s goldmine in Tanzania opened up

The go-ahead that was given at the end of 2000 by the committee of the European Development Fund for a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.01.2001

Ghana
FRESH TAKEOVER BID FOR GGM

A second potential predator has emerged in the fight to control Ghana Gold Mines (GGM), an Australian company that controls [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.1998

Mauritania
GGR CHANGES TACK

Mauritania's Guelb Moghrein copper and gold project appears certain to be delayed unless an agreement bringing a major group into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.11.1997

Ghana
PMMC EXPERIMENT

To improve its recovery rate of small-scale gold production, Ghana's Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation is experimenting with an incentive system [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Mauritania
GGR SEEKS NEW PARTNERS

A project agreed in March that involved Australia's General Gold [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank which is deeply involved with the country's mining houses and in South African investments in mining and other sectors in black Africa has just created a made-to-measure affiliate to encourage emerging projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

Ghana
MORE AUSTRALIANS JOIN RUSH

Two new Australian companies, Trans Global Resources NL and Western Minerals NL, have joined the hunt for gold in Ghana [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.04.1996

Ghana
FUNDS RAISED FOR GOLD PROJECT

The Montreal-based firm Vauquelin Mines Ltd. announced in late March [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.04.1996

Ghana
OBOTAN TARGETS 80,000 OZ.

Associated Gold Fields (AGF) hopes to be able to put its Obotan gold mine near the town of Ebiram west [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Niger
AGC AND ETRUSCAN ON THE MOVE

Ashanti Goldfield's arrival in Niger was confirmed in late August when the Ghanaian firm, which is currently expanding internationally. was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
FOXTROT FUNDING SET

An agreement providing for the Caisse Francaise de Developpement to help finance the Foxtrot gas and electricity project is expected to be signed in coming days, AEM has learned. As a result, invitations to tender will be issued quickly to [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

Ghana
BIDDING OPEN FOR AGC

The first invitation to tender concerning the privatization of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation and covering 20% of its capital will be [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

Spotlight | Africa, Europe
EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

By staging its annual conference with the heads of African power companies on April 28-29 in Brussels after alternating 14 previous gatherings between France and Africa, and in co-sponsoring the meeting with Tracebel, Electricité de France clearly underlined its "European [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1993

Ghana
NEW GLENCAR GOLD PROJECT

The Irish company Glencar Explorations has announced "highly encouraging" results from an exploration campaign on gold sites in western Ghana. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.1992

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Ghana
Red Back Woos Ashanti

Tanzania
Resolute’s goldmine in Tanzania opened up

Ghana
FRESH TAKEOVER BID FOR GGM

Mauritania
GGR CHANGES TACK

Ghana
PMMC EXPERIMENT

Mauritania
GGR SEEKS NEW PARTNERS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Ghana
MORE AUSTRALIANS JOIN RUSH

Ghana
FUNDS RAISED FOR GOLD PROJECT

Ghana
OBOTAN TARGETS 80,000 OZ.

Niger
AGC AND ETRUSCAN ON THE MOVE

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
FOXTROT FUNDING SET

Ghana
BIDDING OPEN FOR AGC

Spotlight | Africa, Europe
EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

Ghana
NEW GLENCAR GOLD PROJECT

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Ghana Red Back Woos Ashanti

Tanzania Resolute’s goldmine in Tanzania opened up

Ghana FRESH TAKEOVER BID FOR GGM

Mauritania GGR CHANGES TACK

Ghana PMMC EXPERIMENT

Mauritania GGR SEEKS NEW PARTNERS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Ghana MORE AUSTRALIANS JOIN RUSH

Ghana FUNDS RAISED FOR GOLD PROJECT

Ghana OBOTAN TARGETS 80,000 OZ.

Niger AGC AND ETRUSCAN ON THE MOVE

Spotlight | Ivory Coast FOXTROT FUNDING SET

Ghana BIDDING OPEN FOR AGC

Spotlight | Africa, Europe EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

Ghana NEW GLENCAR GOLD PROJECT

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Africa
Macquarie Bank's High-Risk Investments

Ghana
Red Back Woos Ashanti

Tanzania
Resolute’s goldmine in Tanzania opened up

Ghana
FRESH TAKEOVER BID FOR GGM

Mauritania
GGR CHANGES TACK

Ghana
PMMC EXPERIMENT

Mauritania
GGR SEEKS NEW PARTNERS

Spotlight | Australia, South Africa
RAND BANK WOOS AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS

Ghana
MORE AUSTRALIANS JOIN RUSH

Ghana
FUNDS RAISED FOR GOLD PROJECT

Ghana
OBOTAN TARGETS 80,000 OZ.

Niger
AGC AND ETRUSCAN ON THE MOVE

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
FOXTROT FUNDING SET

Ghana
BIDDING OPEN FOR AGC

Spotlight | Africa, Europe
EDF: EURO-AFRICAN COOPERATION

Ghana
NEW GLENCAR GOLD PROJECT