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Guinean Government Seeks Bauxite Miners’ Plans For Domestic Alumina Refineries

Guinean Government Seeks Bauxite Miners’ Plans For Domestic Alumina Refineries

The Guinean government last week asked companies operating bauxite mining operations to present plans for refining alumina within its borders by May of this year. The interim government that took power via coup in September has opted to take a harder line...

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French Firm Inks Mining Deal with French-Asian Consortium for Guinean Bauxite

Deadly protests earlier this spring in Boké did not slow down a recently-executed deal between the Guinean government and a Franco-Asian firm seeking to harvest bauxite ore in the area. Joint French-Chinese-Singaporean venture Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and France’s Alliance Miniere Responsable (AMR) sealed a deal earlier this week allowing the latter to mine […]