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10/03/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222

WHO'S WHO

Alain Georges Nébié

Sanu Ressources Burkina, a subsidiary of the Vancouver-based Canadian company Sanu Resources, has appointed Alain Georges Nébié as its new managing director. (...) [96 words] [4€]

10/03/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°222

EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION

Semafo Revises Resources Up By 55%

Benoît La Salle, the chairman of Semafo (SMF), was smiling broadly during the Mining Indaba, in Cape Town in early February. (...) [246 words] [4€]

24/02/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221

WHO'S WHO

Adama Barry

Managing director of Nantou Mining SA which holds the permit to mine zinc at Perkoa, Adama Barry is a key figure in the Burkina mining sector because of his wealth of experience and network of contacts. (...) [132 words] [4€]

24/02/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°221

STRATEGIES

Nantou Reactivates Perkoa

Adama Barry, director of Nantou Mining, a 90% subsidiary of Australia’s AIM Ressources which owns permits to mine zinc on the Perkoa deposit 140 km from Ouagadougou, in Sanguié province, is optimistic that work at the mine will begin and be completed by the end of 2010. (...) [139 words] [1.3€]

10/02/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220

WHO'S WHO

Mahamadi Savadogo

Mahamadi Savadogo, 46, nicknamed “Gaddafi” because of the long time he spent in Libya when he was a student, has not given up the idea of going back into mining. (...) [237 words] [4€]

10/02/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220

EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION

Kiere Manganese to be Mined This Year

Among mines that are due to start production this year is the manganese deposit at Kiere situated 25 km north of Houndé in Tuy province in the west of the country. (...) [194 words] [4€]

10/02/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°220

STRATEGIES

Mining Tax Code To Be Redrafted in 2010

The government of Burkina Faso is planning to revise the country’s entire mining tax regime in 2010 so as to attract more investors into the country. (...) [90 words] [1.3€]

27/01/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219

WHO'S WHO

Adama Kindo

The founder of Société Minière Kindo Adama (Somika), Adama Kindo, who comes from the north of the country, is one of few businessmen in the country able to stave off competition from the majors in Burkina’s gold sector. (...) [133 words] [4€]

27/01/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219

EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION

Volta Resources to Mine Copper from 2013

Encouraged by the strength of copper prices, trading at over USD 7,000 a tonne at end-December, mining companies are no longer holding back in copper and are venturing into territory they have kept under wraps until now. (...) [198 words] [4€]

27/01/2010

AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°219

STRATEGIES

Towards Industrial Limestone Quarrying

Faced with difficulties in obtaining cement supplies, the government of Burkina Faso is seeking to encourage industrial quarrying at the limestone mines of Tin Hrassan, Tin Akoff et Tin Dioulaff in the north of the country. (...) [82 words] [1.3€]

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