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  • DRC Crisis:Is Tanzania Next? 19 Nov 2008 07:26 GMT
    ... Charles Taylor (Liberia), Idi Amin (Uganda), Joseph Mobutu ... soldiers from MONUC were exchanging weapons with minerals! Sri Lankan units were water-tightly implicated. UN ... in stolen minerals such as coltan, cassiterite, tin, pyrochlore and niobium. Rwanda is said to be ...

  • Fighting In Congo Despite Promises 19 Nov 2008 05:30 GMT
    ... RWINDI, Congo Congos army clashed with rebels ... is more interested in power and Congos mineral wealth. Fighting among armed groups has gone ... Chinese companies to exploit Congos cobalt and copper. Congo has called on Angola for military ...

  • Copper's fall takes shine off Zambia's ambitions 18 Nov 2008 23:52 GMT
    ... Copper’s fall takes shine off Zambia’s ambitions Published: ... updated: November 18 2008 18:18 Africa’s biggest copper smelter, a space-age contraption towering over rickety dwellings ... is not doing well on the London Metal Exchange, we get very, very worried.” Kalombo ...

  • Crisis 'could mean bargains for China' 18 Nov 2008 23:20 GMT
    ... Chinese companies are shopping for companies in Europe ... invested heavily elsewhere in Africa and in Latin America, with Aluminum Corp of China investing ... than $US2 billion ($A3.07 billion) in a copper mountain in Peru, and others snapping up ...

  • Freeport-McMoRan cutting over 600 mine jobs in US 18 Nov 2008 21:49 GMT
    ... NEW YORK - Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc said on Tuesday it is cutting ... at a time when copper and other metal prices have plummeted. The cuts come a ...

  • UPDATE 1-Freeport-McMoRan cutting over 600 mine jobs in US 18 Nov 2008 18:27 GMT
    ... UPDATE 1-Freeport-McMoRan cutting over 600 mine jobs in ... NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc said on Tuesday it is ... at a time when copper and other metal prices have plummeted. The cuts come a ...

  • Teal Cutting Costs But Continuing Exploration 18 Nov 2008 18:24 GMT
    ... >> >> By Charlotte Mathews 18 Nov 2008 at 09:02 ... Rainbow Minerals, was continuing to explore for copper in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo ... this year to $3680/ton on the London Metal Exchange. Last week, First Quantum said it ...

  • Silence in London, loud in the Congo 18 Nov 2008 17:55 GMT
    ... Camec, the London-listed resources entity with disparate interests ... to comment on the halting of its copper-cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic of ... "Chinese cobalt plant" Zhejiang Galico Cobalt & Nickel Materials, for USD 18,7m, in Camec shares ...

  • Crisis could mean bargains for China 18 Nov 2008 17:55 GMT
    ... BARCELONA, Spain—Chinese companies are shopping for companies in ... invested heavily elsewhere in Africa and in Latin America, with Aluminum Corp. of China investing ... investing more than US$2 billion in a copper mountain in Peru, and others snapping up ...

  • Congo Fighting Revives Tainted Phone Fears 18 Nov 2008 17:54 GMT
    ... Small-scale miners search for cassiterite, better known as tin ore, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ... work in dangerous conditions to extract the metal. It sounded like a compelling story. During ...

  • Freeport-McMoRan cutting U.S. mine jobs 18 Nov 2008 17:32 GMT
    ... November 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM EST NEW YORK - Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. said Tuesday it is cutting more ... at a time when copper and other metal prices have plummeted. The cuts come a ...

  • Crisis could mean bargains for China 18 Nov 2008 17:16 GMT
    ... Chinese companies are shopping for companies in Europe ... invested heavily elsewhere in Africa and in Latin America, with Aluminum Corp. of China investing ... investing more than US$2 billion in a copper mountain in Peru, and others snapping up ...

  • UPDATE 1-Freeport-McMoRan cutting over 600 mine jobs in US 18 Nov 2008 17:15 GMT
    ... (Updates with company quotes, details, stock down) NEW ... NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc (FCX.N: ) said on Tuesday it ... at a time when copper and other metal prices have plummeted. The cuts come a ...

  • Congo Fighting Revives Tainted Phone Fears 18 Nov 2008 13:50 GMT
    ... Small-scale miners search for cassiterite, better known as tin ore, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ... work in dangerous conditions to extract the metal. It sounded like a compelling story. During ...

  • AFRICA/RWANDA - Exports record for Rwandan minerals, in spite of international financial crisis 18 Nov 2008 13:30 GMT
    ... AFRICA/RWANDA - Exports record for Rwandan minerals, in spite of international financial crisis Kigali ... in Kist, an establishment for transformation of tin in Karuruma, one of minerals in Shirongi, a ...


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