Zaire holds lot of minerals -- and also a lot of surprises. The latest comes from the Société Minière et Industrielle du Kivu (Sominki), a gold and cassiterite (tin ore) mining company that was previously 73% controlled by the Jeumont-Schneider [.
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With work on the first phase (50 MW) of the Sounda private hydroelectric project set to start in July, the [...]
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The government signed an agreement on Feb. 9 with American Barrick concerning permits belonging to the Office des Mines d'Or [...]
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The South African group Trans Hex has acquired a stake in diamond concessions owned by the Canadian firm United Reef [...]
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Zaire's ambassador to Belgium, Kimbulu Wa Moyanso, declared in an article in the Brussels daily La Libre Belgique that Gécamines [...]
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Marathon has been making informal inquiries for a jack-up to [...]
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Italy plans to finance restoration of several turbines on the [...]
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Zaire Gulf (Chevron) has extended its contract for the Noble [...]
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Eskom is preparing to sell three of the six coal-fuelled, 500 MW power stations it mothballed in the 1980s. It [...]
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Chevron has contracted Louisiana-based Global Industries to build a platform for the Kungulo field in A zone in the offshore [...]
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The framework agreement on cooperation signed last September between the [...]
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Scimitar, which holds a 50% interest alongside Zarara's 50% on [...]
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The Industrial Development Corp. is planning with Gencor and other [...]
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While the government has just issued an ultimatum to the three companies competing for the Sabodala gold mining property (AEM [...]
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The privatization of Benin's Société Nationale de Distribution des Produits Pétroliers (Sonacop) has been set into motion. Failing to win [...]
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Consolidated Oil is talking directly to a number of contractors [...]
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Conoco has issued a preliminary inquiry for a jack-up for [...]
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After cancelling an invitation to tender issued previously (AEM 167) [...]
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The government has informed Parliament it plans to sell off [...]
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In its latest quarterly accounts, Sonat has assigned an estimated [...]
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Peter Bijur, aged 53, who currently overseas Texaco's overseas divisions, [...]
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Some time back Algeria's Société Nationale de l'Electricité et du Gaz (Sonelgaz) estimated the country would need to lay out [...]
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Elf announced that it had put the ASPF3 additional platform into service on Ashtart in late January. The project was [...]
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The Amesmessak gold deposit in the Hoggar region, which Algeria [...]
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Giuseppe Carla from ENEL and Francis Girault, advisor to the [...]
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The government recently signed several contracts with consultancies as part of institutional reforms of Tanzania's mining industry. The reforms are [...]
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South Africa's JCI didn't enter the bidding when Ethiopia issued an invitation to tender last autumn for a series of [...]
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The South African steel producer Iscor announced in Johannesburg last week that it had signed an agreement with Pangea Goldfields [...]
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Following in Burundi's footsteps (AEM 173), Rwanda's government has begun a pre-qualification process to privatize Electrogaz's network on a farm-out [...]
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Claude Brice has succeeded Francois Castellani as director and chairman [...]
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This conference on Third Millenium Petroleum, held in London between [...]
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Africa represented 7% of Technip's consolidated revenue of Ffr9.2 billion [...]
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British Gas' international exploration and production activity is to be [...]
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Jacques Strack will take over from Jack Sizain on March [...]
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The third conference on Sub-Saharan oil and minerals will be [...]
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The Canadian mining company Golden Star Resources won a green [...]
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