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Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Pouroulis family's platinum record in Harare

Phoevos Pouroulis (left) and Loucas Pouroulis. © Reuters

Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has struggled to find investors to spearhead the country's recovery since stepping into power after Robert Mugabe's fall, is happy to see the Cypriot family Pouroulis making progress in the country. For its part, this entrepreneurial clan [...]

Published on 25/02/2020 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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A cooling tower at Hwange Power station's Phase 8, currently under construction in Hwange, Zimbabwe, October 19, 2021.

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Mnangagwa grants Ming Chang tax exemption despite troubled record

Amid rising tensions over Chinese mining practices in Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted the large Chinese gold import-export company Ming Chang a long tax exemption.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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To placate Mnangagwa, miners make a show of joining Victoria Falls bourse

After months of pressure, some mining firms in Zimbabwe are slowly accepting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's initiative and entering the nascent stock exchange. It's a calculation that is as much political as financial.

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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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As big players move in, govt shores up a mining code written for shovels and picks

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Juniors see European Raw Materials Alliance as gateway to growth

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Petra Diamonds in talks with Luanda over new projects

South Africa's Petra Diamonds, which has been absent from Angola's diamond sector since 2009, is in talks with the government to develop new projects in the country. The firm is one of a growing number of foreign investors being courted by President Lourenço's administration.

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Houphouet-Boigny's jeweller to relaunch diamonds by year-end

After a hiatus of more than 45 years, semi-industrial diamond production in Ivory Coast is due to resume at the end of the year with Transactysglasol, a company founded by Christian Abadie, jeweller to the country's first president and now headed by Nicolas de Lesguern, operator of gold mines in Burkina Faso.

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Burkina Faso
Golden Rim steps up a gear on Kouri gold with mining tycoon Adonis Pouroulis

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Zimbabwe
Covid-19 hampers the Pouroulis family's search for chrome buyers

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Africa
Mining and oil magnate Adonis Pouroulis orchestrates his African ventures from Guernsey

A prolific figure in the extractive industry throughout Africa, the Pouroulis family heir oversees most of his investments via the Guernsey trust company Artemis Trustees founded by his business partner Robert Sinclair.

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Mining and energy tycoon Adonis Pouroulis. Many of his Guernsey-registered firms are managed by fiduciary services provider Artemis Trustees.

Zimbabwe
The spanner in ZimCoke's plans to buy Zisco's coke ovens

Having board members close to Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner circles has not been enough to help ZimCoke finalise its deal over the acquisition of Zisco's core assets. The timeline for getting coke production up and running again by December 2021 is now in jeopardy.

Subscribers only Mining 28.04.2020

Spotlight | Africa, DRC, Guinea
Alliance of mining expert and lobbyists creates stronghold on continent

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

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Spotlight | Zimbabwe
Pouroulis family's platinum record in Harare

Zimbabwe
ChinaZim again ordered to compensate Zimasco for ferrochrome theft

Zimbabwe
Discontent against electricity grid operator ZESA mounts among miners

Zimbabwe
Magnate Billy Rautenbach consolidates his control of Matabeleland North coal

Tanzania
Local billionaire Rostam Aziz's firm is new majority stakeholder in Tancoal

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa grants Ming Chang tax exemption despite troubled record

Zimbabwe
To placate Mnangagwa, miners make a show of joining Victoria Falls bourse

Burundi
As big players move in, govt shores up a mining code written for shovels and picks

Africa, European Union
Juniors see European Raw Materials Alliance as gateway to growth

Angola
Petra Diamonds in talks with Luanda over new projects

Ivory Coast
Houphouet-Boigny's jeweller to relaunch diamonds by year-end

Burkina Faso
Golden Rim steps up a gear on Kouri gold with mining tycoon Adonis Pouroulis

Zimbabwe
Covid-19 hampers the Pouroulis family's search for chrome buyers

Africa
Mining and oil magnate Adonis Pouroulis orchestrates his African ventures from Guernsey

Zimbabwe
The spanner in ZimCoke's plans to buy Zisco's coke ovens

Spotlight | Africa, DRC, Guinea
Alliance of mining expert and lobbyists creates stronghold on continent

Zimbabwe
Long-standing mines ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa out of action?

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa and Pouroulis (Karo) solar powered partnership

Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa busy helping foreign miners

South Africa, Zimbabwe
Stephen Gorven