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West Africa

Mali
New Diamond Finds for Nevsun

Canada's Nevsun Resources has just published the first results of its diamond exploration work in Mali. The company acquired the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Sierra Leone
Diamond Unit to Start Working at Kono

A month after finalizing its takeover of Crown Diamonds, South Africa's Petra Diamond Ltd. has announced that production of primary [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Guinea
Conakry Asks AngloGold for $25 Million

A year after slapping a temporary embargo on the export of gold from the Siguiri mine operated by AngloGold Ashanti [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Ghana
Maureen Muggeridge

Australian geologist Maureen Muggeridge who worked in South Africa's diamond industry in the 1990s when she was employed by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Mauritania
Robin Longley

Sphere Investments has made a number of appointments linked to its Guelb el Aouj iron project in Mauritania. Robin Longley, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Guinea
Global Alumina

Global Alumina (US) saw its basic convention for the Sangaredi [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Guinea
Will DADCO Soon Join Alcoa/Alcan?

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that DADCO, an international group operating [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Ghana
Three Forests Open to Miners

The government has given a go-ahead to Ghana's Environmental Protection [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.07.2005

Mauritania
Chinese Funding

With the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) gaining an ever-stronger foothold in Mauritania's offshore, Beijing has added Nouackchott's name to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Togo
Seeking Successor to Hunt

The U.S. firm Hunt Oil pulled out of Togo's offshore last month and Lome is preparing to award the acreage to others.

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
Helping to Find Local Partner

Several former Shell executives have set up a new company to serve as marriage-makers between Western groups and local Nigerian firms.

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
Chinese Strategy

Beijing has just finalized a trading agreement with Nigeria but relations between the two remain chilly.

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
Private Plant for Mabon

The Nigerian oil services company Mabon has just penned a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) contract with the Nigerian government to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
Edmund Daukoru

Adviser to Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo for oil affairs since November, 2003, Edmund Daukoru could shortly join the government. He [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria | nnpc
Licensing Round to End

Kicked off in March, a licensing round organized by Nigeria's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Equatorial Guinea | Gepetrol
Correction

Equatorial Guinea's oil company GEPetrol has contacted Africa Energy Intelligence [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Mauritania
CNPC Fleshes Out Portfolio

The China National Petroleum Company has just acquired 65% of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
OML 113 Moves Closer to Development

The consortium that operates OML 113 is preparing to award [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Nigeria
Big Loan for Power Sector

On July 1 the World Bank's board approved a $172 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Ghana
$40 Million for Transmission

The World Bank has just approved a first loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Ghana
Sam Jonah

The president of AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., Sam Jonah, is devoting less time to firm and will become a non-executive director [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.07.2005

Ghana
Samuyel Bosomtwe

A former chief geologist at AngloGold Ashanti's Obuasi mine, Samel Bosomtwe has taken a job with African Gold Group (Ghana) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.07.2005

Guinea
Ahmed Tidiane Souare

Halco Mining Inc is cultivating its ties with Guinea mines minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare. The latter was named chairman of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.07.2005

Senegal
Mineral Deposits Seeks Loans

Australia's Mineral Deposits Ltd. has contracted RMB Resources Ltd. to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.07.2005

Ghana
Semafo Buys into Birim

Canada's Semafo has become the second leading shareholder in Birim [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.07.2005

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