UC RUSAL the world’s largest aluminium producer, announced the signing of the Annex to the Agreement with the Republic of Guinea specifying details of the development of Dian-Dian, the world’s largest bauxite deposit, with the ...
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London-listed Bellzone Mining has announced that it made the first iron ore shipment from the Forecariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa on December 26, 2012. The 63,000 mt iron ore shipment from the port of Konta was ...
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West Australian quoted Sundance Resources has underscored the long term value of its West African iron ore project,saying that a reserve upgrade on the Congo side of the Mbalam-Nabeba venture has the potential to push the first stage mine ...
Bellzone Mining announced that the first shipment of iron ore was dispatched from its Forecariah joint venture with China International Fund in the Republic of Guinea,West Africa. The company in a statement said that the shipment was made ...
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Exploration company Sable Mining Africa announced that positive initial results from metallurgical test work at its Nimba iron ore project in south east Guinea. The firm said that the results revealed the potential for Nimba to host ...
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A methanol plant with annual production capacity of 850,000 tons will be set up by the Gulf of Guinea Oil Exploration Limited (GGOEX) in Delta state of Nigeria. The proposed plant, when it becomes operational in 2015, would be the ...
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Reuters reported that government of Guinea on Friday cleared a project by state owned China Power Investment Corp to invest nearly$6 billion in an alumina refinery in Boffa,some 120 km(75 miles)west of the capital. The project for the ...
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India is already building a rare-earth mineral processing plant in the east coast state of Orissa and will invest $135 million in a new exploration ship and the refurbishing of another vessel to mine minerals under its oceans. Only last ...
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China has officially rejected a request by the US, Europe and Japan to have a special panel of the World Trade Organization arbitrate a dispute over the country's controversial policy of restricting exports of rare earths. China mines ...
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Eight African countries have begun setting up Internet exchange points as part of an ambitious project by the Internet Society and the African Union Commission, aimed at improving interconnectivity between countries and reducing ...
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Reuters cited a source familiar with the situation as saying that BHP Billiton has selected mining venture B&A Mineração as the preferred bidder for its stake in Mount Nimba, one of the largest iron ore deposits in Guinea. ...
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Resource nationalism is assuming more subtle forms as governments resort to measures outside of blatant asset expropriations to retain the benefits proffered by their geological bounties. In an interview with the Financial Times (paywall) ...
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Reuters reported that a dispute between Papua New Guinea and Canada's Nautilus Minerals threatens to sink plans to mine gold and other metals for the first time from the ocean floor. It could also work against efforts by the South Pacific ...
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Guines mines minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana said that more than 75%of mining permits granted by Guinea before 2011 are currently inactive and should be cancelled. The mineral rich,but impoverished West African nation launched an audit of ...
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Mining companies and investors including some heavyweight industrial combines in China are pouring into the region in a quest for iron ore, driving a railway building and mining boom whose worth JPMorgan Chase & Co recently estimated at USD ...
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