The International Finance Corp (IFC), one of very few financial institutions to invest in the African mining sector without political [...]
Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines-Investment Holdings (ZCCM-IH), a long standing investor in copper in the counrty, is reactivating its policy of [...]
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Under the slogan "L’Europe mine l’Afrique" (Europe undermines Africa), a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including notably Greenpeace, Friends of [...]
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Just after the deal that China’s Minmetals forged to buy chrome exploration rights from the South African companies Mission Point [...]
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Although Sumitomo Corp of Japan has yet to finalise its purchase of a 20% stake in the Mmamabula coal energy [...]
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Arcelor Mittal, already active in iron ore in Liberia and Senegal, is believed to have submitted an offer of USD [...]
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Interest is growing in uranium in Mauritania, where the mining industry remains dominated by iron extraction (see above). Australian juniors [...]
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Mano River Resources, which has for a long time only carried out diamond and gold exploration in the river Mano [...]
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