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Guinea

Negotiations on Simandou in Beijing

While Guinean president Alpha Conde was on a state visit [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

A letter from Mines and Geology ministry

Following publication of an article entitled "Mines ministry mulls update [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.01.2017

Nigeria's Pelfaco in drive on Guinea's oil market

In early December, the Nigerian explorer Pelfaco incorporated a subsidiary [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.2017

Spotlight
Investigation could cost Namory Conde his job as CBG boss

With Namory Conde’s mandate as chief of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), the leading ore producer in the country, about to end on Dec. 31 a report from the company’s audits committee has accused him of overstepping his powers [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Steinmetz turns the tables on Rio Tinto in bribery cases

Accused before several courts and arbitration panels of paying off associates of former Guinean president Lansana Conte to win blocks [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Pothier poised to develop Kindia and Dubreka bauxite

Overseeing the bauxite project of Forward Africa Resources (FAR) in the Kindia and Dubreka areas of Guinea, French national Michel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Serigne Drame’s push for wider worker rights

In Dakar in late November, the Senegalese magistrate Serigne Assane Drame spelled out his first recommendations aimed at establishing a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

Mines ministry mulls update of mining code

Guinea’s mines ministry under Abdoulaye Magassouba is seeking to retain [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.12.2016

France trains African troops

Following commando operations by French Special Forces in the Sahel-Saharan Strip and recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.12.2016

Major row between Jean-Louis Borloo and Alpha Conde

Disagreements with Guinean authorities have led the French former minister to want to move the headquarters of the Energies pour l’Afrique foundation from Conakry to Dakar.

Subscribers only Business 14.12.2016

SMB sets to work on relinquished AMR area

For some days now Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

SMB & Chinese undertake sweeping survey for new resources

In late November the Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

Former minister Soumah starts his own company

Mines and geology minister in Guinea between 2002-2005 under president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

India's Dynamic Mining asked to try again

In late November, Guinea’s mines and geology minister, Abdoulaye Magassouba, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2016

BCEAO puts pressure on international banks

The BCEAO has asked foreign banks operating within the West [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2016

Mines and Money 2016: secret negotiations on Simandou

Travelling to London to attend the Mines and Money conference being staged in the British capital between Nov. 28-Dec.1, a [...]

Subscribers only 29.11.2016

Blue Oil Energy, a discreet broker out to conquer the continent

A brand new oil brokerage company, Blue Oil Energy, which is based in London and on the highly posh Quai [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2016

Spotlight
Question mark on whether Chinalco can revive Simandou iron project

After fighting tooth and nail with Rio Tinto to force it to revive the Simandou iron ore project, Guinea’s government is preparing for a new tug-of-war with China’s state-owned Chinalco (China Aluminium Co) that picked up the major’s stake in [.

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2016

Societe Miniere de Boke almost okay with government

More than a year after awarding a mining license to SMB, the government finally received a stake in the bauxite project.

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2016

Francois Polge de Combret trips up Rio Tinto

Francois Polge de Combret, a consultant who picked up a $10.5 million fee in Guinea, has cost Alan Davies, chief [...]

Free access Mining 22.11.2016

Government preaches responsible mining development

While Rio Tinto is suspected of corruption involving the Simandou [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2016

Camara takes on additional bauxite project

With his company Camen Resources already hard at work on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2016

Hyperdynamics works to reassure Conakry

The boss of Texas-based Hyperdynamics, Ray Leonard, is keen on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Tullow cuts sharply into next year’s exploration budget for Africa

Even if Tullow Oil’s creditors have offered it a new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Retired general Camara adds a gold stripe to his uniform

In late October, retired general Farimba Camara founded a firm aiming to explore and produce minerals, Manden Mining. It wasn’t [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2016

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