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Mauritania

Rex Diamonds Backs Away

Africa Mining Intelligence has learned that Rex Diamond Mining Corp put a halt to its exploration operations in Mauritania at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.08.2004

A New Purge

An abortive putsch that was revealed by Mauritanian defense minister Baba Ould Sidi on Aug. 10 triggered a week-long freeze [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.08.2004

New Delays for WAGP

The signing of a final investment decision on the West [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.08.2004

Drilling to Start in August

A consortium headed by Woodside will begin a 21-well exploration [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

OULD LEKWAR

Named chief of Mauritania's B2 military intelligence service following an [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.07.2004

Rio Narcea to Develop Tasiast

The Spanish mining firm Rio Narceo Gold Mines has taken over the Canadian company Defiance Mining Corp., which owns the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

World Bank to Promote Mines

The World Bank wants to increase its activity in Mauritania's [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

ELY OULD SNEIDA

Former right-hand man to colonel Khouna Ould Haidallah, the ex-president [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.07.2004

Edouard Rech

Despite a law banning gambling in Mauritania, Lebanese-born businessman Edouard [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.06.2004

First Quantum at Guelb Moghrein

Operating in Zambia for a number of years, First Quantum Minerals has taken an option on the Guelb Moghrein copper/gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

Wadi Al Rawda in Exploration Push

Based in the United Arab Emirates and active in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2004

No Stake for Government

In announcing last week that development of the Chinguetti field was about to start the operators indicated there was no place for the government in the venture.

Subscribers only Energy 08.06.2004

Walid Ibn Talal

As well as mobile telephones (the 3d licences will be [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2004

BACIM-BANK

BACIM-BANK, the Mauritanian bank set up a year ago by [...]

Subscribers only 03.06.2004

Kebir Ratnani

This civil engineer long active in the electrical sector joins Canadian mining company Semafo Inc as a director. Kebir Ratnani [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.06.2004

ELY OULD MOHAMED FALL

The country's police chief, col. Ely Ould Mohamed Fall, had [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.05.2004

U.S. Warning on Mauritania

In an urgent memo issued on May 3, the U.S. embassy in Nouakchott warned Americans living in the country about [...]

Free access 13.05.2004

Boaz Bismuth

The Israeli foreign ministry's appointments committee ratified the nomination of [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.04.2004

PetroChina Joins DiamondWorks

The last Chinese major to lack a holding in Africa, PetroChina has just joined forces with Canada's DiamondWorks.

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

CHEYAKH OULD ELY

Mauritanian president Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya has named Cheyakh [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.04.2004

Iamgold to merge with Wheaton River

The Canadian concern that discovered the Sadiola gold mine in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.04.2004

Raising Finance

Hardman and ROC Oil, partners of Woodside in areas A and B in Mauritania's offshore, have both raised finance to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.04.2004

Dana Finds Gas on Block 7

Britain's Dana Oil, which operates three blocks in Mauritania's offshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.04.2004

A First Gold Mine at Tasiast ?

A Canadian company that took over Geomaque Exploration Ltd., in June of last year, Defiance Mining Corporation, will shortly complete [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

Owing to the arrival of British Gas and the possibility of fresh financial backing, the Australian consortium that operates the Chinguetti field should be able to meet its target of starting production in 2005.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2004

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Rex Diamonds Backs Away

A New Purge

New Delays for WAGP

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OULD LEKWAR

Rio Narcea to Develop Tasiast

World Bank to Promote Mines

ELY OULD SNEIDA

Edouard Rech

First Quantum at Guelb Moghrein

Wadi Al Rawda in Exploration Push

No Stake for Government

Walid Ibn Talal

BACIM-BANK

Kebir Ratnani

ELY OULD MOHAMED FALL

U.S. Warning on Mauritania

Boaz Bismuth

PetroChina Joins DiamondWorks

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Raising Finance

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A First Gold Mine at Tasiast ?

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Mauritania

Rex Diamonds Backs Away

A New Purge

New Delays for WAGP

Drilling to Start in August

OULD LEKWAR

Rio Narcea to Develop Tasiast

World Bank to Promote Mines

ELY OULD SNEIDA

Edouard Rech

First Quantum at Guelb Moghrein

Wadi Al Rawda in Exploration Push

No Stake for Government

Walid Ibn Talal

BACIM-BANK

Kebir Ratnani

ELY OULD MOHAMED FALL

U.S. Warning on Mauritania

Boaz Bismuth

PetroChina Joins DiamondWorks

CHEYAKH OULD ELY

Iamgold to merge with Wheaton River

Raising Finance

Dana Finds Gas on Block 7

A First Gold Mine at Tasiast ?

BG Replace ENI on Chinguetti

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Burkina Faso, Mali
Gold traders cast in uncertainty as jihadist threat looms

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The secrets behind the FGIS, a sovereign wealth fund set adrift