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N°274 - Paris, 23/05/2012

Gaelle Arenson

AFRICA

Editor in Chief

Glencore pursues strategy switch in mines

Once an ultra secret trader in raw materials - its discretion made the reputation of its founder Marc Rich -Glencore International Plc is transforming itself across the board. After beginning to invest upstream in the mining sector and floating on the stock exchange a year ago in order to inject a degree of transparency into its image, the Switzerland-based company is poised to negotiate infrastructure and commodity accords directly with governments, as Chinese groups began to do a few years back. (...) [289 words] [$11,2]

EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION


SENEGAL
Health Corp spies golden opportunity
In a complete turn-around for Health Corporation, which had operated up to now in the biotechnology field, the Australian company has struck an agreement to wholly buy out its countryman Erin Mineral Resources Plc. (...) [255 words] [$7]


SOUTH AFRICA
Coal: SNR upgrades tie with Trasteel
A year after signing an exclusive off take agreement with the Swiss trader Trasteel International (AMI 248), Strategic Natural Resources Plc (SNR) has shifted into higher gear. (...) [170 words] [$7]

STRATEGIES

LOME

Suspense over carbonated phosphates
[101 words] [$2,1]

CONAKRY

Guinea and RusAl at odds over production figures
[69 words] [$2,1]

CONAKRY

Guinea and RusAl move towards arbitration
[157 words] [$2,1]


IVORY COAST
Predictive Discovery targets Birimian
An Australian explorer listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and already active in prospecting for gold in Burkina Faso (on the Bonsiega and Bangaba prospects in the east), Predictive Discovery Ltd (PDL) intends to plant its flag in Ivory Coast. (...) [243 words] [$7]


IVORY COAST
Spatial Dimension updates land registry
An affiliate of South Africa’s MS Group. Spatial Dimension, was awarded a contract in early May to update Ivory Coast’s land registry under a program financed by the World Bank’s fund to bolster the capacity of mining institutions. (...) [168 words] [$7]


SOUTH AFRICA
Coal: Malelane pre-feasibility study by year’s end
Less than a year after floating on London’s AIM, Ferrex Plc has just wound up a scoping study on its blue ribbon Malelane iron ore project in South Africa. (...) [208 words]


CONGO-K
SNDL stakes its claim on Lupatapata diamonds
A new company named Societe Miniere de Diamant de Lupatapata (SMDL) recently began exploration work on a 50 sq.km. license that bears the same name in Eastern Kasai in Congo-K. (...) [211 words] [$7]


SOUTH AFRICA
Transnet biting off more than it can chew?
The extension of the local railway network in South Africa’s Limpopo region has long been awaited by mining operators as a way of boosting the development of the Waterberg coal fields. (...) [348 words] [$7]

FUNDING

CONGO-K
Mwana finds a partner
[121 words] [$2,1]

AFRICA
CNMC floats African assets on stock exchange
[120 words] [$2,1]

SOUTH AFRICA
Fangda lays out $3 million for iron project in South Africa
[102 words] [$2,1]

LOOKING AHEAD


	BURKINA FASO Goldrush seeks mining rights by 2015 [81 words] [$2,1]


	BURKINA FASO Avion Gold focuses on Hounde [77 words] [$2,1]


	SOUTH AFRICA ResGen must sign with Transnet [85 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	TOGO
	Paul Stockton
	An associate partner in the British law firm Moore Stephen LLP, Paul Stockton conducted an audit between Jan. 1 and March 1 this year on financial movements in Togo’s mining Industry in 2010. (...) [91 words] [$7]


	MADAGASCAR
	Caroline Seagle
	In a recent issue, Britain’s Journal of Peasant Studies, which specializes in rural development, the anthropologist Caroline Seagle from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, questioned the environmental credentials of Rio Tinto with regards its ilmenite mining project at Fort Dauphin (Rio Tinto/QMM operator) in Madagascar. (...) [313 words] [$7]


	NIGER
	Omar Hamidou Tchiana
	Appointed to his post last autumn, Niger’s minister of mines and industry, Omar Hamidou Tchiana, is counting on an influx of investors in gold projects to help reduce the country’s reliance on the uranium industry. (...) [275 words] [$7]

NOT TO BE MISSED


	Lusaka, 19-22/06 The second Zambian International Mining & Energy Conference & Exhibition (ZIMEC 2012) will be held in Lusaka between June19 and 22. (...)


	Nouakchott, 8-11/10 The second MAURITANIAN MINING & OIL AND GAS CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION (MAURITANIDES 2012) is being organized by AME Trade Ltd in Nouakchott on 8, 9, 10 and 11 April in conjunction with the ministry of oil, energy and mines. (...)


	Dakar, 6-8/11 SIM Senegal (2nd Senegalese Mining Conference & Exhibition) will take place from 6 – 8 November at the Hotel King Fahd Palace (formerly known as Le Meridien President), Dakar, Senegal. (...)