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Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is an Anglo-Australian mining company and one of the world leaders in the production of aluminium, iron ore, copper and uranium.

Guinea
Ashapura pays court to the government to secure Boffa bauxite

Indian group Ashapura Minechem is vying for a bauxite block in Boffa previously explored by BHP Billiton and is bending [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.06.2017

Guinea
Woula pushes forward on Batafong bauxite plateau

Guinean firm Woula Mining, which obtained a bauxite research permit [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.06.2017

Madagascar
Ambatovy mine’s owner breaks with Chamber of Mines

Louis Roland-Gosselin, vice president of Sherritt International that operates the [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.06.2017

Guinea
Last ditch efforts in Beijing to save Simandou

In late May, Guinean mines minister, Abdoulaye Magassouba and Ahmed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

Guinea
Compagnie des bauxites de Guinee sets sail for north

Compagnie des bauxites de Guinee (CBG), which set a target [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.06.2017

Mozambique
Dutch firm Heerema follows in Technip’s tracks

Dutch oil services company Heerema Marine Contractors, has made its interest in Mozambique very clear after registering a subsidiary, Heerema [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Spotlight | Africa
Julien Balkany adds carats to his crude

Active in the African oil sector, French businessman Julien Balkany is in the process of setting up a diamond mining company and preparing to acquire mining titles in Guinea or Lesotho. He has called on big guns in the finance [.

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa
Alan Davies moving on after Rio Tinto

The target of an international financial investigation into the conditions in which the Simandou iron blocks were awarded in Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Guinea, United States
Rio Tinto’s shareholders give giant brief respite

Rio Tinto’s shareholders, who launched a class action in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Guinea
Rio Tinto appoints new legal team after Simandou scandal

Mining giant Rio Tinto recently recruited Philip Richards as its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Spotlight | Madagascar
Minister Zafilahy determined to showcase his country’s potential

Ordered late last year by Madagascar’s mines and oil minister Ying Vah Zafilahy to revive a plan to change mining legislation, the director-general for mines at the ministry, Pamphile Rakotoarimanana has a real challenge on his hands: namely to increase [.