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Iron

There are very few known pockets of iron ore mining on the African continent yet given its many industrial properties it has become a high-stakes resource with political and financial ramifications. The are several iron ore research projects on the go, including Guinea's gigantic Simandou, Nimba and Zogota deposits.

Angola
Luanda takes its place on the Copperbelt

Determined to profit from the recent hike in the price of copper, Angola’s government has now stepped forward as the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Africa
Lauvergeon to lose seat on Rio’s board

In early May, Anne Lauvergeon will leave the board of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Guinea
Chinalco wants even more iron

According to our sources, China’s state-owned Chinalco group is interested [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

Cameroon
Ivo Desancio Yenwo, Biya’s real PR man

The ceremony organized on Feb. 8 at the presidential palace in honour of the national football team, the "Indomitable Lions", [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2017

Angola
Indaba 2017: Francisco Queiroz pulls out all the stops to court miners

As Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos is intent on compensating for a drop in oil revenue with fresh mining [...]

Subscribers only 07.02.2017

Spotlight | Guinea
Chinalco could become owner of Beny Steinmetz’s former blocks on Simandou

While police investigators and courts in far-flung countries continue to examine how Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) headed by Franco-Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz ended up by owning blocks 1 and 2 of Simandou iron ore project in Guinea the situation [.

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Guinea
Former Rio Tinto man Diakite seeks to forge Canada-Guinea link

Rio Tinto’s man in Guinea for nearly 10 years, Ismael Diakite has turned his hand to consulting in Montreal.

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Sierra Leone
Steel expert Ansu Katta turns hand to bauxite

Supervising exploration by Jindal Steel & Power in Sierra Leone where the Indian group plans to build a coal-fired power [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2017

Spotlight | Cameroon
Biya's smoke-and-mirrors mining act

Confronted with the drop in the oil price, like all his counterparts in the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon's highly-secretive president, Paul Biya, is trying to both court mining operators on one hand and butter up international institutions that regulate the [.

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
Yemen's HSA Group threatens Conde with court action

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that if no out-of-court agreement is reached by Feb. 12, Atlantic Mining (AM), an affiliate of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Guinea
SMB boss heads Chambre des Mines

In mid-January, Frederic Bouzigues, general manager of Guinean bauxite producer [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2017

Spotlight | Angola
Dos Santos clan fine-tunes strategy to revive mining sector

To compensate for the drop in oil revenue, Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has asked his mines minister, Francisco Queiroz, who has worked with him for three decades, to oversee an ambitious plan to breathe new life into Angola's [.