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West Africa

Burkina Faso
Manganese Bankable at last?

Manganese mining at Tambaois once again on the agenda. The grading of this deposit in Burkina Faso is high at [...]

Free access Mining 03.03.2009

Guinea
Changing Faces at Alcoa and Rio Tinto Alcan

As the financial crisis bites the major mining groups are reshuffling their management teams in Guinea. According to our information, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Burkina Faso
Sharp Rise in Gold Production in 2009

Burkina Faso’s gold production is expected to triple or even quadruple over the next two years. In 2008 exports reached [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Ghana
Newmont Throws in Towel at Akyem

Slated to restart last year, Newmont Mining Corp’s Akyem gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Guinea
Step towards Resolving RusAl Tax Dispute

The representative of RusAl in Guinea, Alexandre Dedkowsky, was auditioned [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Ivory Coast
Etruscan Financed by Russian Businessman

Etruscan Resources has just closed the first tranche of its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.03.2009

Ghana
Conflict of Interest on Jubilee?

With production on the Jubilee field set to begin in 2010, a report by Oxfam has voiced some misgivings over Ghana’s preparation for an oil bonanza.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

West Africa
Atip’s Play in Two Guineas

ATI Petroleum is attempting to acquire licenses in Conakry. It is already in talks with neighboring Guinea Bissau as well.

Free access Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
New Turns in ONGC Saga

India’s state-owned ONGC company is working against as tight deadline in an attempt to recover its rights on two blocks.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
Gasol Invests in Floating LNG Unit

In the wake of Norway’s Flex LNG, the British concern Gasoil is putting its money on mounting small liquefaction plants on barges to extract gas from small Nigerian fields.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Burkina Faso
Soon a Power Line to Abidjan

Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, will be able to start importing electricity generated in Ivory Coast later this year.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
NNPC Has Power Plants in Mind

Nigeria’s national oil company wants to generate electricity from gas fields that are too small to produce sufficient quantities for export markets.

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Equatorial Guinea
A Mysterious Assault

The Equatorial Guinea government declared that the Movement for the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Algeria, Nigeria
Algerians Keep Pressing for Trans-Sahara Pipeline

Accompanied by a raft of advisers, Sonatrach's chief executive, Mohammed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Burkina Faso
No New Dams on Drawing Board

The Societe National Electricite du Burkina (Sonabel) is counting on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Ghana
Kosmos Also Seeks Funding

Only a few weeks after Tullow Oil (AEI 597), the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
KBR Affair Lingers On

KBR’s admission of guilt on Feb. 11 that it had [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
Shell Keen to Lend USD3 Bn

As Dubai World endeavors to put together a loan for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Ghana
Erik Solheim

Erik Solheim, Norway's overseas development minister Eric Solheim met in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Nigeria
Gary Jenneman

Gary Jenneman, a scientist at ConocoPhilips who is in charge [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.02.2009

Liberia
BHP to Sign Agreement in Iron Ore

Iron resources in Liberia are attracting strong interest from major mining groups. ArcelorMittal, then known as Mittal Steel, kicked off [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Mali
CAMEC Switches Focus to Mali

Strongly shaken by the drop in the price of cobalt in recent months, CAMEC is gearing up its other projects, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Senegal
Areva Resumes Work at Saraya

The French nuclear energy giant has revived exploration programmes in the past few years to meet growing demand for yellow [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Niger
Niamey, 24-26/02

The Niger Chamber of Commerce for agriculture and industry and ITE Group are organising the second "Mining, Petroleum & Telecommunications [...]

Free access Mining 17.02.2009

Mali
Bamako, 03-06/11

A 13th conference and exhibition on trading and finance in oil, mines and gas in Africa will be staged in [...]

Free access Mining 17.02.2009

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