While waiting for a post-conflict loan from the IMF and a CFA12 billion ($21.6 million) loan from the Banque des Etats d’Afrique Centrale, the Central African Republic’s government has been tapping mining companies for "financial contributions.
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Apart from a handful of Black Empowerment stars in the mining industry - Mvelaphanda Resources, ARM, Mmakau Mining, Khumo Bathong - the financial situation of black operators remains shaky. The unraveling of the JCI holding company of the late Brett [.
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A Russian oligarch who runs the Renova mining and energy holding company, Viktor Vekselberg, was appointed a member of the [...]
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Two South Africans have been named to the board of BHP Billiton. Mike Solomon, a former Billiton executive who was [...]
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The chief of Mitsubishi Corporation’s office in Dakar, Yosuke Kamada, led a delegation of executives from the Japanese firm who [...]
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A former project director for Namibian Minerals Corporation (Namco), Robert Daniel, has become boss of Canada’s Diamond Fields International (DFI) [...]
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Canada’s SearchGold Resources Inc. has a new CEO, Joel Scodnick, a geologist who founded Minorca Resources Ltd., Houston Lake Mining [...]
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An accountant with long experience of Africa, Andrew Herbert, was named financial director of the discreet British firm Avnel Gold [...]
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Eastern Platinum (Eastplats), a Canadian company listed on London's Alternative [...]
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Maurel & Prom, a French oil group headed by Jean-Francois [...]
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Outokumpu Oyj (Finland) is going to build two new production [...]
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The Western Saharans threatened to put pressure on Belgium’s Prayon [...]
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Allenby Finance, a company based in the British Virgin Islands [...]
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France’s Bureau de Recherche Geologique et Miniere (BRGM) has reached [...]
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RBC Capital Markets is going to make a private placement [...]
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Canada’s IamGold, which produces gold in Mali, has launched a [...]
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After thinking about it for months, Managem, the mining arm [...]
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Australia’s Gravity Diamonds Ltd. is to proceed with a non-guaranteed [...]
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Africa’s main mining operators will be in Cape Town between [...]
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