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Mining magnate Benoît La Salle targets big Moroccan copper find

The Canadian head of Aya Gold & Silver believes he can find a major copper deposit in Morocco by investing in exploration. He has been discussing his plans with other mining sector figures like Robert Friedland and Mark Bristow. [...]

Published on 09/04/2024 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Amina Benkhadra
Aya Gold & Silver
Barrick Gold
Benoit La Salle
Canadian Council on Africa
David Lalonde
Ivanhoe Mines
Leila Benali
Mark Bristow
Moustapha Elouafi
Office national des hydrocarbures et des mines
Robert Friedland
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Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

The businessman will gradually take over Aya Gold & Silver's gold projects in Morocco and Mauritania as Benoît La Salle shifts his focus to the kingdom's silver reserves.

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Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

The head of Morocco's national oil company ONHYM, Amina Benkhadra, wants to encourage joint ventures with mining juniors in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Several Canadian groups have shown an interest.

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Amina Benkhadra, head of Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines, in Rabat, Morocco, on 15 September 2022.

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Bombardier eyes fully home-made Moroccan aircraft

The Canadian planemaker recently met with Morocco's industry minister Ryad Mezzour to discuss several major projects it hopes to launch in the kingdom.

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Moroccan industry minister Ryad Mezzour on 21 February 2022 in Rabat.

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Australian mining giant Fortescue CEO heads to Rabat

Billionaire Andrew Forrest has a trip to Morocco booked this week to get the ball rolling on his group Fortescue's joint venture green energy project with OCP.

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Angola
Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

The British government hopes that other companies will follow in the footsteps of the Pensana mining group, which is building Angola's first rare earth mine through one of its subsidiaries.

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Morocco
British emissary Emmerson presses accelerator on Khemisset potash project

The representative of Emmerson's main shareholders has paid a visit to Morocco to lay out what the company, backed by major international mining firms, hopes to gain from the site east of Rabat.

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Morocco
Benoit La Salle hammers out Tangiers graphite plant details with Rabat

The Quebec mining entrepreneur has teamed up with China's C-One to build an anode plant in Tangiers that will eventually supply EV battery manufacturers with synthetic graphite. The level of subsidies has yet to be agreed.

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In Focus | Morocco
Rabat's secret plan to supply Morocco's future gigafactories with strategic minerals

Battery industry giants, including South Korea's LG and China's Gotion, have announced three major electric vehicle battery plants in Morocco in recent months. But the sourcing of their critical metals remains a major unknown factor.

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Investment Minister Mohcine Jazouli and Hassan Ouriaghli, head of Al Mada.

Morocco
Canadian Benoît La Salle plans to shake up Morocco mining sector

The Aya Gold & Silver boss plans to invest $140m to quintuple production at his Zgounder silver mine by 2024. He is continuing his exploration campaigns, hoping to make discoveries that will attract other Canadian juniors to Morocco, as he did in Burkina Faso.

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Ivory Coast
Canada's Sama Resources surfs nickel wave with Ivory Coast digs

Cashing in on a nickel craze driven by demand for electric vehicle batteries, Canadian mining firm Sama Resources is expanding its explorations in Ivory Coast, backed by the tycoons Robert and Govind Friedland.

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In Focus | West Africa
Where next for mining's wild child, Robert Friedland?

From Singapore to Monrovia, via New York and Conakry, the American-Canadian tycoon Robert Friedland is one of the global mining sector's most flamboyant figures. Well established in the DR Congo, he is working behind the scenes in Conakry and Monrovia to expand his empire in West Africa.

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Ivanhoe Mines founder Robert Friedland at a conference in Cape Town in 2022.

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Ivanhoe Mines
Leila Benali
Mark Bristow
Moustapha Elouafi
Office national des hydrocarbures et des mines
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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?

Morocco
Mining magnate Benoît La Salle targets big Moroccan copper find

Morocco
Investors continue to circle round Jbiel mine

Mauritania, Morocco
Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

Morocco
Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

Spotlight | Morocco
Bombardier eyes fully home-made Moroccan aircraft

Morocco
Australian mining giant Fortescue CEO heads to Rabat

Angola
Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

Morocco
British emissary Emmerson presses accelerator on Khemisset potash project

Morocco
Benoit La Salle hammers out Tangiers graphite plant details with Rabat

In Focus | Morocco
Rabat's secret plan to supply Morocco's future gigafactories with strategic minerals

Morocco
Canadian Benoît La Salle plans to shake up Morocco mining sector

Ivory Coast
Canada's Sama Resources surfs nickel wave with Ivory Coast digs

In Focus | West Africa
Where next for mining's wild child, Robert Friedland?