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Mauritania
New Minerals port in 2012 at Nouadhibou

After years on the drawing board, a project for a new minerals port at Nouadhibou will see the light of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Mali
From Scrap Metals to Iron Ore

Active up to now in the scrap metals business in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal, Sandeep Garg & Co has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea
Pantchenko's New Banking Career

RusAl’s former representative in Guinea (2000-2007) and ex-boss of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea
Chinese Put Money on Bellzone

A strong leg-up for Bellzone Mining. After floating on AIM [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Burkina Faso
High River Gold Mines operates Bissa Zandkom

We mistakenly reported in our last issue (AMI 227) that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Burkina Faso
One-Stop Mining Agency Under Study

Burkina Faso is to set up a one-stop mining gency [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.05.2010

Guinea
Dore Carries Day over Thiam

A presidential decree has finally been issued in favor of the American group Hyperdynamics, confirming its rights in Guinea. According [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Niger
Still No Agadem Deal for CNPC

The Chinese company has failed as yet to win exclusive rights to work the Agadem field which is scheduled to start producing next year.

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
About-Face on Exports

Nigeria’s new oil chiefs are far more favorable than their predecessors towards projects to export liquefied natural gas.

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Mauritania
Abdel Aziz Sets A Tough Goal

Mauritania’s president has decided to provide electricity for all of the capital’s neighborhoods and three other provincial towns by the year’s end.

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Ivory Coast, Togo
Lome Comes to Abidjan’s Rescue

Togo is to sell 30 MW to Ivory Coast when a new power station operated by ContourGlobal shortly comes on line.

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Ghana
Kwame Ampofo

Ghana’s president, John Atta Mills, fired Kwame Ampofo, managing director of Tema Oil Refinery, in early May. A disagreement between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Guinea
Michael Palmer

After finally clearing all the hurdles in Guinea (see Page 3), the Texas-based firm Hyperdynamics hired Michael Palmer as its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
NNPC

A giant contract worth USD 23 billion has just been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Equatorial Guinea, Ghana
Malabo to Supply TOR

During a three-day state visit to Equatorial Guinea in early [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
Amnesty: a Fresh Start?

The Nigerian president’s adviser for the Delta region, Timi Alaibe, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Equatorial Guinea
Afex Wins PSA

After two full years of talks, the explorer Afex has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Ghana
Nigerian Gas Could Help Takoradi Triple Production

The state-owned Abu Dhabi group Taqa, the main shareholder of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
Panalpina Avoids Court Case

The Panalpina affair involving almost all oil services groups operating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
Herve Temime

Cited to appear before a commercial court in Paris by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Nigeria
Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, won strong backing from most [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.2010

Guinea
Therey Hopsow

The project manager for the Societe des Mines de Fer de Guinee (SMFG) that belongs to BHP Billiton, Therey Hopsow, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Ivory Coast
Michel Mian

Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, who announced he would sign myriad mining licenses in the country in 2010, is keeping [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

Nigeria
Abuja, 25-27/05

The International Mining Investm ent conference and Exhibition on Nigeria 2010 will be held in the Nigerian capital between May [...]

Free access Mining 11.05.2010

Ivory Coast
Lihir/Newcrest in the Ivory Coast

After initially rejecting the idea in April, Australia's Lihir Gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.05.2010

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