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Spotlight | Guinea
Glencore torpedos majors at Simandou

Africa Mining Intelligence understands from its sources in Conakry that Glencore, the only major that hasn’t yet planted its flag in Guinea, is trying to gain a piece of the iron ore bonanza in the West African country, possibly to [...]

Published on 15/07/2014 at 23:02 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Spotlight | Guinea
Glencore torpedos majors at Simandou

Guinea
Vale fed up with BSGR legal wrangle

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Francois Polge de Combret trips up Rio Tinto

Guinea
A hitch in the showdown between BSGR and Vale

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Kevin Fox describes state of play with Simandou’s financial feasibility study

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Conakry uses China & Glencore to turn up heat on Rio Tinto

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