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Bauxite

Boasting one of the world's largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminium, Guinea has become one of the leading global producers of the mineral. Its West African neighbours - Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Mali - as well as Cameroon, Tanzania and other countries across the continent have begun to move in to the bauxite market.

Guinea
GAC brings in leading French construction groups

Emirati group GAC is counting on Colas and its partners Leduc and NGE to advance construction of its bauxite mine in Boke.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 07.03.2017

Guinea
Billy Allaryn Keita helps CivTek to get a second bauxite permit

US company CivTek International was able to rely on its well-connected local director, Billy Allaryn Keita, to obtain two bauxite [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Guinea
GIZ to help Boke mining institute to go regional

German cooperation agency GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) plans to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Africa
Lauvergeon to lose seat on Rio’s board

In early May, Anne Lauvergeon will leave the board of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Guinea
Conakry pushes railways to top of agenda

With financial backing from the World Bank, Guinea’s mines ministry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Insiders | Mozambique
President Filipe Nyusi's northern allies on the look-out for good deals

Just as international companies are preparing to invest colossal sums of money in gas reserves in the province of Cabo [...]

Subscribers only 16.02.2017

Filipe Nyusi

Spotlight | Guinea
Chinalco could become owner of Beny Steinmetz’s former blocks on Simandou

While police investigators and courts in far-flung countries continue to examine how Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) headed by Franco-Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz ended up by owning blocks 1 and 2 of Simandou iron ore project in Guinea the situation [.

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Guinea
South African mining engineering giants set to compete for contracts

DRA Global and WBHO could profit from a rush in bauxite projects requiring infrastructure.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 07.02.2017

Guinea
Pouroulis joins exclusive band of bauxite tycoons

Guinea president Alpha Conde inaugurated construction of the Bel Air bauxite mine of Britain’s Alufer Mining in the Boffa region [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Guinea
Former Rio Tinto man Diakite seeks to forge Canada-Guinea link

Rio Tinto’s man in Guinea for nearly 10 years, Ismael Diakite has turned his hand to consulting in Montreal.

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Sierra Leone
Steel expert Ansu Katta turns hand to bauxite

Supervising exploration by Jindal Steel & Power in Sierra Leone where the Indian group plans to build a coal-fired power [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Burundi
Pouroulis’ rare earths firm gets off to blazing start in London IPO

The rare earths explorer Rainbow Rare Earths (RRE) and its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Spotlight | Cameroon
Biya's smoke-and-mirrors mining act

Confronted with the drop in the oil price, like all his counterparts in the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon's highly-secretive president, Paul Biya, is trying to both court mining operators on one hand and butter up international institutions that regulate the [.

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
Yemen's HSA Group threatens Conde with court action

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that if no out-of-court agreement is reached by Feb. 12, Atlantic Mining (AM), an affiliate of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
SMB boss heads Chambre des Mines

In mid-January, Frederic Bouzigues, general manager of Guinean bauxite producer [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
Ibrahima Sory Camara advises local miners

A former aide in Guinea’s mines ministry, mining engineer Ibrahima [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
Government rep in Boke does his best to soothe bauxite producers

Anxious to calm the fears of bauxite miners and worried about a surge in violence in his area, the government [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

Sudan
Tycoon Osama Daoud Abdellatif in rush for gold - and iron

Boss of the conglomerate Dal Group that already operates in the agribusiness, construction and real estate fields, the Sudanese magnate [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

Guinea
Souleymane Traore takes over as head of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee

As Africa Mining Intelligence anticipated would be the case (AMI 382), Souleymane Traore replaced Namory Conde as head of Compagnie [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

South Sudan
Coipa International snares its permit

While an offensive by South Sudanese militia is curbing operations [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

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