Company Announcement: ERAMET and Mineral Deposits Limited announce the closing of their mineral sands joint‐venture

ERAMET and Mineral Deposits Limited announced today that they have closed their joint venture transaction to combine ERAMET Titanium & Iron, located in Norway, and MDL’s Grande Côte Mineral Sands project, located in Senegal.

MDL and Eramet form vertically integrated mineral sands venture

ASX- and TSX-listed developer Mineral Deposits Limited (MDL) and French mining company Eramet will form a joint venture (JV) covering a mine development in Senegal and mineral sands plant in Norway. The companies would put together MDL’s Grande...

Mining in Africa Projects 2010

A sample of mining projects taking place across the African continent.

NovaGold closes financing, Auramet loan converted to shares

Vancouver-based NovaGold has closed the final sales of its $75-million private placement, but will not use the proceeds to repay a bridge loan from Auramet Trading, which opted instead to convert the $7,3-million outstanding on the loan into...

New manganese mine planned for Namibia

JSE-listed shipping and logistics group Grindrod, which announced the acquisition of the remaining 50% in Oreport on Tuesday, said that the company had partnered with Eramet to develop a manganese mine, in Nambia. Grindrod said in a media...

Moatize: year of decision looming for CVRD

Brazilian mining and logistics major Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has revealed that it will make the final decision on whether or not to go ahead with the Moatize metallurgical and thermal coal project in Mozambique in the course of 2007,...

Nonferrous metals producer to up Africa output

French nonferrous metals producer Eramet is on track to increase production at plants in Africa and New Caledonia to meet China's rampant steel demand, a company spokesperson said yesterday.

French group won’t make-up lost ferro-manganese output

French non-ferrous metal producer Eramet said yesterday it had no plan to transfer the ferro-manganese output capacity of its soon-to-close Comilog plant in Boulogne sur Mer to other plants.

Eramet to close manganese unit by end-2003

French ferro-manganese producer Comilog, a subsidiary of Eramet, will close its Boulogne-based plant by the end of the year, the company said on at the weekend.