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Tanzania
Mining arbitration: litigation funds threaten Magufuli regime

After months of threatening to file arbitration against the Tanzanian state for cancelling their mining permits, three firms should now be able to take action thanks to litigation financial backers. [...]

Published on 25/08/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Africo Resources
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Indiana Resources
John
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Litigation Capital Management
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Montero Mining & Exploration
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
Sculptor Capital Management
Tony Harwood
Winshear Gold

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Tanzania hopes to join world's top nickel and cobalt producers

Anglo-Australian group BHP's investment in Kabanga, which is set to begin production by 2025, has fuelled hopes that Tanzania could soon become one of the leading nickel and cobalt producers.

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Tanzania
Third mining arbitration against the state set to start

The ICSID panel of judges that will rule on the dispute between the Canadian company Montero Mining & Exploration and Tanzania has finally been constituted. It will examine the government's withrawal of Montero's Wigu Hill permit.

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Tanzania
Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Canadian company Montero Mining & Exploration has brought in SRK Consulting's Neal Rigby to assist it in its arbitration case against the Tanzanian state before ICSID.

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Tanzania
Arbitrators lining up for Magufuli mining disputes at ICSID

Arbitrators are in the process of being appointed to handle actions filed at ICSID against Tanzania by Montero Mining, Indiana Resources, and Winshear Gold over the withdrawal of their mining permits in 2019.

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2021

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Lalive, the firm of choice in the fight against Magufuli's nationalist policies

Law firm Lalive will represent mining companies in several actions filed against the Tanzanian government in the last few weeks contesting the removal of permits.

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DRC
Former Africo shareholders hold firm on valuation of Kalukundi copper in Och-Ziff case

In a document filed with a court in New York, Africo's former shareholders argue that Och-Ziff's estimate of the amount it owes them following its takeover of the Kalukundi copper deposit is too low. They cast doubt, too, on the valuation of the site made by the American government, which is supposed to be their ally in the affair.

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DRC
Och-Ziff non-plussed with ex-Africo investors' compensation figure

On March 6, Cahill Gordon & Reindell partner Anirudh Bansal submitted his client, OZ Africa's response, before the court of [...]

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Tanzania
Lalive lawyers sharpen mining arbitration skills

It is the London team of Swiss-based law firm Lalive [...]

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Spotlight | Tanzania
Dar es-Salaam's compromised mining bid round

Key to the Tanzanian government's strategy to have mining companies return to the country alongside President John Magufuli's nationalist policy (AMI 432), the bidding round for ex-retention licences (RL) confiscated from giants the likes of Barrick Gold Corp and Glencore [.

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Tanzania Arbitrators lining up for Magufuli mining disputes at ICSID

Tanzania Lalive, the firm of choice in the fight against Magufuli's nationalist policies

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Tanzania
Mining arbitration: litigation funds threaten Magufuli regime

Tanzania
Tanzania hopes to join world's top nickel and cobalt producers

Tanzania
Third mining arbitration against the state set to start

Tanzania
Montero boss Tony Harwood brings back Och-Ziff case consultant for rare earths arbitration claim

Tanzania
Arbitrators lining up for Magufuli mining disputes at ICSID

Tanzania
Lalive, the firm of choice in the fight against Magufuli's nationalist policies

DRC
Former Africo shareholders hold firm on valuation of Kalukundi copper in Och-Ziff case

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Och-Ziff non-plussed with ex-Africo investors' compensation figure

Tanzania
Lalive lawyers sharpen mining arbitration skills

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Dar es-Salaam's compromised mining bid round