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Spotlight | Guinea
Robert Friedland wants to power up Mount Nimba iron ore

The Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland. © Fred MARVAUX/REA

The difficult negotiations between Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland's High Power Exploration (HPX) and the Guinean state for control of the Nimba iron ore project is only a small part of its US parent company I-Pulse's African strategy.An impossible deal? [...]

Published on 23/10/2018 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Areva
BHP Billiton
Carlyle
Gilles Avrillaud
Guy de Selliers de Moranville
High Power Exploration
I-Cube Research
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International Technologies for High Pulsed Power
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Laurent Frescaline
Laurent Goguelin
Lehman Brothers
Michael Delchambre
Mifergui-Nimba
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Nicolas de la Vallee Poussin
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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?

Spotlight | Guinea
Robert Friedland wants to power up Mount Nimba iron ore

Spotlight | Angola, DRC
Trafigura and Mota-Engil all set to upgrade Lobito Corridor

DRC
Taiwan tries to force the DRC to repay a 30-year-old debt

West Africa
Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Guinea
World Bank takes interest in Robert Friedland's Nimba iron ore project

Guinea
SMFG boss Mamady Youla pessimistic about Nimba iron ore project

Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks up the pace on copper and nickel exploration

Spotlight | Document | Guinea
Miners ramp up push to export production via Liberia

DRC
OreWin confirms Kipushi's zinc potential

Gabon
Ali Bongo advisor Mathurin Ango quarries for funds for his mines

Niger
Minister Hassane Baraze Moussa brings in new experts

Sudan
Ian Davies behind the reins of Qatari copper project

Guinea
Full-steam on Boffa bauxite, Chalco turns back on Simandou iron ore

Guinea
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Guinea
Conakry wants to reboot Nimba iron ore

Spotlight | Guinea
Bauxite shunts iron ore off top post

Guinea
Mount Nimba’s ore to be shipped out via Liberia?