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Brazilian Mining Company, Vale Begins To Develop Coal Mine Project in Tete, Mozambique
Brazilian major diversified miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) has started development of its $1,3-billion Moatize coal project in Tete province, Mozambique. Production is scheduled to start in December 2010.
Guinea and Chinese Discuss Mining Exploration and Infrastructure Investment
Guinea and China are discussing a deal which could see billions of dollars of Chinese investment in return for mining rights in the West African country, which has a third of the world’s bauxite, a Guinean minister said.
A delegation including officials from the Chinese Development Bank recently spent a week in Guinea and is due [...]
Rio Tinto Make Plans To Develop Iron Mine in West African
For expand and develop mining project Rio Tinto, the biggest mining company, looking partner from Chinese. Rio is make plans looking partner mining company specialy mining company for steel and construction companies to help develop a $6bn (£3.08bn) West African iron ore mine.
Sam Walsh, head of Rio’s iron ore division, said in an interview with [...]
Pressure on oil companies grows to end gas flaring in Nigeria
For three minutes, on the day last May when Royal Dutch Shell released its first quarter earnings figures, a flame shot high into the air in front of the company’s head office in The Hague, scorching a human chain of about 40 protesters that circled it, a few meters away, to block police efforts to [...]
World’s mining firms dig in perilous terrain
The world’s biggest mining companies, hungry for metals increasingly tapped out in developed countries, are plunging into risky new terrain. Mining executives are setting up operations in some of the most violent, politically turbulent places, like the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine Phelps Dodge approved here in December.
Expatriate homes for the Tenke staff have [...]
Indonesia’s Riches Draw China, India
When it comes to energy and industrial commodities, China and India are Asia’s fiercest competitors. For the last couple of years, both Chinese and Indian companies have done deals across the globe — from Latin America to Africa — to win oil exploration rights or secure long-term raw material contracts.
Now they have set their sights [...]
Oil-addicted America finds a temporary fix in Africa
From last fall to early spring the crude oil flowing from offshore fields near the Akwa Ibom River tropical delta in Nigeria supplied the South Elgin, Ill., Marathon gas station 8,000 miles away with roughly one-quarter of its oil.
That was just part of the torrent of foreign-bought crude that prompted President Bush, one of the [...]
In Africa, China Trade Brings Growth, Unease
Every time newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube visits his native Zimbabwe, he said, there seem to be more Chinese. He sees them shopping at boutiques, driving fancy cars, picking up their children from elite private schools.
And as in much of Africa, Ncube said, China’s reach into Zimbabwe’s economy is equally pervasive: The roads are filled with [...]
