According to people familiar with his thinking, Ivan Glasenberg may consider a long-speculated takeover of Anglo American after he takes over Xstrata. What will Ivan do next? That’s the question likely to percolate amid seaside cocktails in Cape Town this week as mining executives gather for a four-day industry confab of speeches and discreet meetings.
Matata et Yuma (Radiookapi.net Picture) Dans un communiqué rendu public, dimanche 23 décembre, le ministre délégué aux Finances, Patrice Kitebi, appelle les responsables de la Gécamines à améliorer la gouvernance dans cette entreprise publique transformée en société commerciale en 2011. Ce communiqué fait suite à la suspension des prêts accordés à la RDC par le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) décidée à la fin du mois de novembre à cause de la non publication de certains contrats miniers.
ENRC a racheté pour 550 millions de dollars les parts de l’homme d’affaires israélien Dan Gertler dans Camrose Resources. Le minier kazakh entend ainsi mettre fin à ses rapports avec l’homme d’affaires controversé.
ENRC was present at Grand Karavia’s Katanga IPAD 2012 (MNM Picture) Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) – Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. offered $550 million to buy out Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler from a company holding interests in copper and cobalt licenses in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The cash bid is for 49.5 percent of Camrose Resources Ltd., which is indirectly owned by a Gertler family trust, London-based ENRC said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. The offer, which also is for minority shareholdings in some Camrose units, is expected to close by…
Dec 3 (Reuters) – The IMF has halted $240 million in planned loans to Democratic Republic of Congo for failing to publish mining contracts as requested, the IMF’s representative in Congo said on Monday. President Joseph Kabila, grappling with a costly war in the eastern borderlands, had sought to woo investors with promises to tackle rampant corruption.
Marange – Zimbabwe rough diamonds Washington (SAPA) – A UN-mandated global watchdog on Friday agreed to end year-long monitoring controls on Zimbabwe’s diamond trade, after it found the government had allayed concerns over its Marange mines.
While some suggest First Quantum Minerals may not want to engage in a hostile takeover of Canadian copper miner Inmet, additional offers could be forthcoming from other companies. First Quantum Minerals confirmed Thursday that it had approached Inmet Mining on October 28th “on a friendly basis to discuss a possible combination of the two mining companies.
WASHINGTON, 1er décembre (Reuters) – Nancy Pelosi, chef de file de la minorité démocrate à la Chambre, a annoncé vendredi son intention de lancer une pétition pour réclamer un vote de la Chambre sur les impôts, que refuse la majorité républicaine.
johannesburg (Osisa.org) – The capture of Goma by M23 rebel forces is the latest demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its army (the FARDC). Whatever the political machinations behind the military’s most recent capitulation may be, the overarching themes are the longstanding institutional and governance weaknesses of Congo’s central authorities – weaknesses that the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) has highlighted multiple times in its reports and analyses.
PARIS (Reuters) – Le gouvernement français a annoncé vendredi soir un accord avec ArcelorMittal sur l’avenir de Florange, évitant ainsi d’avoir à exécuter sa menace de nationalisation du site sidérurgique mosellan. Le Premier ministre a annoncé que le géant de l’acier acceptait d’investir 180 millions d’euros sur cinq ans dans la partie transformation de l’acier de Florange, mais les hauts-fourneaux du site ne seront pas rallumés.
