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Guinea, United States
Simandou: Mysterious corruption charges

The Simandou mining project in Guinea has produced fallout in the United States. This weekend a 50-year-old French national, Frederic [...]

Published on 23.04.2013 at 22:02 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Saidou Diallo, the secretary-general of the economy and finances ministry, [...]

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Simandou’s infrastructure: Conakry pulls out

The fifth session of the working group on the Simandou iron ore project that was held in Paris on Sept. [...]

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Soros' footprint everywhere on Simandou project

With the third meeting of negotiators on the Simandou iron ore project looming large - it will be held between July 15-20 - Guinea is beefing up its team of advisers under the baton of George Soros.

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RusAl to sign $832 million check for Conakry

With Guinea about to modify its much-criticized mining code in coming weeks - and in a manner calculated to bring smiles to mining companies - president Alpha Conde has set a bout settling outstanding issues in order to improve the [.

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Simandou :Conakry thinking of breaking off accord

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Iron Ore : Vale International & BSGR counter attack

Vale International and Beny Steimentz Group Resources have changed tack with their VBG joint venture in Guinea. At the end [...]

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Simandou: The government keeps up the pressure

The authorities in Guinea are worried over what they see [...]

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Simandou iron ore: Conakry switches adviser

According to our sources in Conakry, Guinea’s government is on the point of choosing a new law firm, probably SNR [...]

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Simandou: Why the IFC frowns on AIOG

With funding for infrastructure to ship iron ore out from the Simandou South project operated by Simfer stirring more interest than ever (AMI 278), tension has arisen between the Simfer stakeholders (Rio Tinto, Chinalco, IFC) and the African Iron Ore [.

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Private investigators rumble in Guinea jungle

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Guinea, United States
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