The former Rio Tinto exec and current chairman of the Chamber of Mines, who is also the deputy managing director of the Chinese-Singaporean-Guinean consortium, has been leading the negotiations on the Simandou iron ore project. WCS and Rio Tinto have until 18 July to respond to Mamadi Doumbouya's ultimatum to create a joint venture to mine the huge iron deposit. [...]
Published on 13.07.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes
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