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AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°267 - 08/02/2012
TOGO
Dammipi Noupokou
The privatization of Togo’s phosphates sector has stirred concern. According to our sources in Lome, Togo mines minister Dammipi Noupokou discreetly retained the services of the London-based law firm Bird & Bird to advise the government on putting the carbonated phosphates sector on the auction block (AMI 264). (...)  [126 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°267 - 08/02/2012
GUINEA
Mamady Youlah
The Chambre des Mines de Guinee held its general assembly on Jan. 27. The chamber’s current president, Mamoudou Diallo (managing director of SEMAFO), announced he was standing down in favor of another “non-Peul” candidate. (...)  [89 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°267 - 08/02/2012
SENEGAL
Martin Horgan
Chief executive of Toro Gold, Martin Horgan is a UK trained mining engineer, and one of the key people behind Toro. (...)  [113 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°266 - 25/01/2012
ZAMBIA
Wilbur Simuusa
Zambia’s mines minister Wilbur Simuusa is expected to shortly award a mining license to the South African firm Alberg Mining & Minerals Exploration Ltd. (...)  [89 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°266 - 25/01/2012
SOUTH AFRICA
Jeff Ahbe
The former management team of Barplats Investments Ltd/ Eastern Platinum Ltd., with Jeff Ahbe in the forefront, has pulled off quite a coup. (...)  [218 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
GUINEA
Cece Noramou
Previously managing director of Guinea’s Bureau d’Etude et de Strategie at the mines and geology ministry, Cece Noramou was named coordinator for infrastructure and goods shipment from Simandou South by president Alpha Conde in late December. (...)  [76 words]   [FREE]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
MALI
Abdou Diarra
A former engineer at the defunct Societe Nationale Malienne de Recherche et d’Exploitation Miniere (Sonarem) and now retired, Abdou Diarra is promoting the Asongo project as boss of the Mali Manganese SA company in the north of the country. (...)  [121 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
GHANA
Irwin Olian
African Queen Mines has only gold on its mind these days. Its chief executive officer and president, Irwin Olian, took a fresh look at its portfolio of assets in Africa at the end of 2011 and decided to henceforth pay priority to its gold projects, and particularly in Ghana where sample drilling is to soon start on the Noyem-Nyanfoman prospect. (...)  [96 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°264 - 21/12/2011
IVORY COAST
Abdramane Diabate
An engineer by training and currently a mines inspector, Abdramane Diabate is back in business. After being sidelined by former ministers Emmanuel Monnet Leon (2000-2010) and Augustin Komoe (2010-2011), Diabate now counts the powerful figures around Adama Toungara, the mines, energy and oil minister Like others in the minister’s inner circle who are drafting reforms in the sectors. (...)  [78 words]   [FREE]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°264 - 21/12/2011
SOUTH AFRICA
Peter Leon
Speaking at the Mines and Money Conference last week in London, South African lawyer Peter Leon warned against “resource nationalism,” which he saw as the cardinal threat against mining operators at present. (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
 
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°267 - 08/02/2012
ANGOLA
Joao de Matos
The Angola Exploration Mining Resources joint venture has kicked off the first phase of work on the Kassala-Kitungo iron ore mine that straddles the provinces of Kwanza Norte and Malanje. (...)  [84 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°267 - 08/02/2012
CONGO-K
Francois Muhire
The latest United Nations report on armed groups in the eastern part of Congo-K, published in December, said that different movements are playing a key role in the fight to control the pyrochlore (niobium) mine at Lueshe that has pitted the Krall company against Somikivu in North Kivu (see page 2). (...)  [224 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°266 - 25/01/2012
GUINEA
George Soros
The key role that American billionaire George Soros is playing with regards Guinea’s leadership has been confirmed (AMI 242/ 245). (...)  [84 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°266 - 25/01/2012
ANGOLA
Osvaldo Van Dunem
Appointed at the end of last year, the new board of the national diamond company Endiama is mulling a plan to boost growth in order to become the third-ranking exporter of gems in the world. (...)  [215 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°266 - 25/01/2012
ZAMBIA
Jean-Marc Gagnon
Headed by Jean-Marc Gagnon, manager of Merrex Gold Mali, the Siribaya project will enter a new phase in 2012 when it kicks off a $11. (...)  [28 words]   [FREE]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
GUINEA
Mohamed Cherif Haidara
The firm African Iron Ore Group Ltd (AIOG), retained by the authorities in Conakry to study funding 51% of the Transguineeen railway, has appointed Mali national Mohamed Cherif Haidara to act as its managing director. (...)  [108 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
BURKINA FASO
Olusegun Lawson
The boss of the Canadian firm Thor Explorations, Olusegun Lawson, has decided to beef up his West African portfolio in addition to a current investment his firm has made at Douta in southern Senegal. (...)  [115 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°265 - 11/01/2012
IVORY COAST
David Harper
David Harper, managing director of the Ghana-based drilling and exploration firm Geodrill has discreetly founded a mining company named Gecko Gold Cote d’Ivoire in Ivory Coast. (...)  [71 words]   [FREE]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°264 - 21/12/2011
GUINEA
Gennadyi Vlasov
Guinea’s mines minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana had a falling out with Gennady Vlasov, managing director of Unie RusAl on Dec. (...)  [112 words]   [$7]
AFRICA MINING INTELLIGENCE n°264 - 21/12/2011
NAMIBIA
Utoni Nujoma
Namibia’s foreign minister, Utoni Nujoma, has put out feelers to Iran. Visiting Tehran last week, Nujoma, son of former president Sam Nujoma, urged Iranian investors to buy into Namibia’s economy, and particularly into energy (there’s question of an oil refinery project) and mines. (...)  [82 words]   [$7]

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