The campaigns against "fatal transactions" in diamonds prompted the boss of Lazare Kaplan International (LKI) to send a confidential letter last month to the chairman of the U.N. sanctions committee on Sierra Leone, Fernando Enrique Petrella, Argentina's ambassador to the [.
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The U.S. Trade & Development Agency is putting up $165,000 of the $327,000 – or roughly 50% -- that a [...]
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SNEL in Democratic Republic of Congo is demanding payment for power from SNE in Brazzaville with new-found determination, using cuts [...]
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Energy du Mali plans to invest $35 million Euros this [...]
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Anglo American's takeover of the Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO), which ferro-chrome industry circles began to view as a [...]
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Barring an unforeseen counter-attack, Harmony Gold Mining Co. may have scuppered plans by South African gold magnate Brett Kebble and [...]
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The Union Miniere affiliate UM Engineering appears bent on acquiring a leading position in zinc refining technology. In addition to [...]
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A number of universities in the European Union are to lay on training programs and exchanges for students and mining [...]
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Controversy is raging over the auction of diamonds mined by the Miniere de Bakwanga, with particular question marks over the [...]
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The Canadian firm Tiomin Resources Inc has won a $US [...]
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The government wanted to promulgate new mining legislation by decree [...]
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Following a reserved rights issue agreed in advance, Australia's Lion [...]
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Mauritania and France signed an accord at the end of [...]
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The turn that negotiations on a future partnership accord between [...]
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The capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, will host the Africa [...]
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In the somewhat unlikely event the now-frozen privatization of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) could be pushed through by the [...]
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A year after its Agbami oil find pointed to very substantial reserves Texaco announced with considerable fanfare on Jan. 6 [...]
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Although it was four or five weeks behind time, the production start-up on Kuito by Chevron on Jan. 5 constituted [...]
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After a fairly long observation period during which it waited [...]
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Negotiations between the government and Texaco to bring it into [...]
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To persuade the French SNCF railway system to sign an [...]
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Sonangol and its small Namibian sister Namcor are planning a [...]
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The jack-up Noble Don Walker is understood to have been [...]
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Nigeria Liquefied National Gas Co. (NLNG) signed an agreement on [...]
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The Irish company Tuskar Resources put its Obe field into [...]
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The partners on blocks 2 to 6 in Mauritania's offshore [...]
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The drillship Peregrine III, currently idle in Cape Town, has [...]
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