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Guinea

Bjarne Moe

The firm African Petroleum founded by Australian businessman Frank Timis has recruited a former senior Norwegian civil servant to sit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Beicip-Franlab

The consulting concern Beicip-Franlab, affiliated with IFP Energies Nouvelles (Institut [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Parliament to approve bauxite deal for Emirati hub

Guinea's parliament is expected to shortly approve a clause in the basic contract between Guinea and Guinea Alumina Corp, a [...]

Subscribers only 20.06.2014

Spotlight
Who’ll take over BHP Billiton’s bauxite blocks?

A big question mark hangs over who will succeed BHP Billiton on the bauxite blocks the giant abandoned in 2012 (AMI 285). Africa Mining Intelligence has learned the identities of companies pre-qualified to bid for the properties. One gravitates in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Semafo: Standoff between Curtis & Yansane

Mines minister Kerfalla Yansane and the secretary-general at the mines ministry, Guillaume Curtis, nephew of president Alpha Conde are engaged [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Andrew Groves

The chief executive officer of Sable Mining Africa, Andrew Groves, is engaged in crucial talks with ArcelorMittal on the question [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

A new EITI rep?

If confirmed, the dismissal of Guillaume Curtis, nephew of president [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Bollore jumps into Simandou arena

According to our sources, a preliminary plan that RioTinto/Simfer has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Ouagadougou

Masami Iijima, boss of the Japanese industrial giant Mitsui, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.06.2014

Conde above the law

The law in Guinea bans cars with no licence plates [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.06.2014

Spotlight
OCP set for long rule over fertilizer market

Morocco’s powerful Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) is about to open an office in Abidjan and for a very good reason - the market for NPK fertilizer in the sub-region has gone through the roof.

Subscribers only Mining 03.06.2014

ALFREDO BARRIOS (Rio Tinto)

The day after the signature of a $20 billion framework [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.05.2014

Ray Leonard

The managing director of the U.S. oil firm Hyperdynamics, Ray Leonard, whose firm is active in Guinea's offshore, has every [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

Spotlight
The riddle of Simfer/Rio Tinto accord

A law firm advising Guinea, Orrick Rambaud Martel, has been working overtime in recent days. Its job is to see that Simfer/Rio Tinto which is poised to sign an investment accord on blocks 3 and 4 of the Simandou iron [.

Subscribers only Mining 20.05.2014

Settlement of Bel Air vs CPI dispute in sight

A property dispute stemming from the overlapping of bauxite exploration rights of Bel Air Mining (an affiliate of Alufer Mining) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.05.2014

Mamoudou Diallo

According to sources in Conakry, Mamadou Diallo, managing director of Semafo Guinee, is a central player in the sell-off of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.05.2014

Spotlight
How Rio Tinto tightens grip on Simandou

Rio Tinto’s legal action in New York on April 30 against Vale, BSGR (Beny Steinmetz Group Resources), former Guinea mines minister Mahmoud Thiam and the widow of late president Lansane Conte, Mamadie Toure, in the Simandou affair forms just part [.

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

SMFG/BHP Billiton told to pay up

With the Simandou iron ore project in the far east of the country stalled by legal issues (see P. 1), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Sahara to supply crude oil to Guinea

Nigeria’s Sahara Petroleum has won a six-month contract to supply [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Nava Toure (EDG)

A graduate of the University of Conakry’s Institut Polytechnique engineering [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.04.2014

Simandou: BSGR to call for arbitration

The group Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) has decided to carry through with its threat concerning the Simandou issue. According [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.2014

Hydraulic opportunities on offer

Guinea's president dislikes "minerals for infrastructure" deals so there's every reason for European firms to compete for contracts.

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

4T Commodities, a personally tailored fund

Two weeks following its launch, 4T Commodities & Emerging Markets, the new equity fund of France’s Jean Francois Fourt, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.04.2014

Conde calls for investment in infrastructure

Invited to a luncheon thrown by the Chambre Belgique-Luxembourg-ACP on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.04.2014

Cyril d’Silva

A Singapore national who runs the Australian firm Narhex Life Sciences, Cyril d’Silva, has succeeded in winning control of 75% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.03.2014

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