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Spotlight NIGER Issue dated 24/09/2013

Cominak/Somair : tax headache for Areva

The end of this year will find Areva very much on edge. The mining agreements of its affiliates in Niger, Somair and Cominak, run out on December 31 and the French nuclear energy group must renew them by then. The [...] (303 words)

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