Nimba Guinea Iron Ore

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Simandou, Nimba and Zogota: the long and difficult road to the start of iron ore production Guinea, which has some of the biggest unexploited iron ore deposits in the world in its south eastern corner, is also one of the countries in which they are the most difficult to bring into production, principally because of the absence of ...

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High Power Exploration Inc. (HPX) is a privately-held company focused on the development of the ultra-high-grade Nimba iron ore project in Guinea. For more information about the Nimba project, please visit the project page on the website of HPX's indirectly-owned subsidiary, Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG), as well as the website ...

The iron ore deposits at Nimba represent a large, high-grade resource and one of the last few known high-quality, undeveloped iron ore deposits in the world that has natural sinter feed fines, able to produce a premium direct-shipping ore (DSO) product with an average iron (Fe) grade of 65%. The Nimba Mining Concession comprises an area of 625 ...

The proposed Nimba Iron Ore Mine is located in the Nimba Mountains of southeastern Guinea. The Nimba range extends along the borders of Liberia, Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire and is part of the Guinean montane forest ecoregion, with lowland evergreen and deciduous forest types as well as gallery forests.

The deal did not eliminate the possibility that some of the iron ore produced at Nimba, in southeast Guinea, could be taken to port through Liberia - a much shorter route than the government's ...

Guinea and Liberia signed a deal on Friday to allow several mines in Guinea, including the giant Nimba iron ore project, to export through Liberia, officials from the two West African countries said.

In December, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced that it was set to spend $6.2 billion on mining the rich, high-grade iron ore deposits of eastern Guinea's Simandou Mountains, with ...

• The Project has a large landholding in Guinea's prolific Nimba Iron Ore Corridor and comprises majority ownership of two permits: o of the Nimba West permit covering ~198km2; and o 56% of the Nimba North permit covering ~107km2.

Spotlight | Guinea Robert Friedland's Nimba iron ore dilemma. The US-Canadian financier bought the vast iron project four years ago, but Guinea's ruling junta is showing little interest in developing it, and UN …

A major iron mining project in eastern Guinea may be at risk as its owner, the U.S. firm HPX, is reportedly running into trouble with its plans to ship ore through neighboring Liberia.

Located in the south-east of Guinea, Nimba is estimated to hold about 1bn tonnes of iron ore, although HPX is only planning to mine about 500m tonnes, which it plans to export through neighbouring ...

Nimba iron ore project is a high-grade, direct shipping ore (DSO) deposit in south-east Guinea, Africa. It is one of the biggest undeveloped on or near-rail DSO projects in West Africa. The project is being developed by West …

China Baowu Iron & Steel and Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS), the holder of blocks 1 and 2 of the immense iron ore deposit in southeastern Guinea, have finally reached an agreement. More than eight months after Conakry approved the Chinese steel giant's stake in the Simandou project in December, Shi Bing, its chairman, and Lv Xiaohui, the CEO of the …

Nimba iron ore project poised to expand Guinea's exports Mining stated that Ivanhoe Atlantic intends to transport Nimba's high-grade ore over an existing rail route through Liberia, potentially reducing logistical and financial expenses in contrast to Simandou, which needs a 650-kilometer railway to a port in Guinea.

Guinea's Nimba Mountains now have a new investor, Sarmin Holdings, which is interested in the mineral that made them famous, iron. The firm founded by Stéphane Rigny - a former Rand Merchant Bank employee who later became chairman of the MagIndustries mining group founded by his father - has concluded an agreement through its subsidiary Sarmin …

The government has approved a deal for private US company High Power Exploration (HPX) to acquire the 95% interest in the Nimba iron ore deposit held by BHP, Newmont Goldcorp and French nuclear power group Orano (the former Areva).HPX is run by Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland and former Rio Tinto head of exploration Eric …

Ivanhoe Atlantic acquired the iron ore deposit in September 2019. Based on a 2015 report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Nimba holds roughly one billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore. At full-tilt, the mine is expected to produce 30 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore a year.

The Nimba iron ore project in Guinea said on Wednesday that a pre-feasibility study confirmed the mine's viability, but it expressed concerns about potential limitations on its railway access to ...

This worried the Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG), which operates the Nimba iron ore project in south-eastern Guinea. It plans to link up with ArcelorMittal's track to export its future production, and it saw the September deal as reducing its scope for negotiation with the firm (AI, 17/11/21 ).

Following the identification of high-grade haematite in the Liberian Nimba Mountains in the mid-1950s, very close to the borders with Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire, a large, open-pit iron ore mine was constructed starting in 1960 and operated until the early 1990s, when it was abandoned because of the Liberian civil war.

The Nimba project is a Tier 1 deposit containing extremely high-grade, low-impurity, direct shipping ore (DSO) and is considered one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in …

The Nimba project is a Tier 1 deposit containing extremely high-grade, low-impurity, direct shipping ore (DSO) and is considered one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world.

Based on a 2015 report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Nimba holds roughly one billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore. At full-tilt, the mine is expected to produce 30 million tonnes ...

Guinea's president Alpha Condé is trying to change that and his government has said it will allow some smaller iron ore deposits such as Nimba to export iron ore by rail through neighbouring ...

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Guinea Forecariah forges ahead of Simandou and Nimba as Guinean iron ore hub. With 175,000 tonnes of iron ore already being produced monthly by India's Ashapura group and a new Chinese company preparing to start prospecting, the Forecariah area is currently Guinea's leading iron ore production zone.

Simandou, Nimba and Zogota: the long and difficult road to the start of iron ore production Guinea, which has some of the biggest unexploited iron ore deposits in the world in its south eastern corner, is also one of the countries in which they are the most difficult to bring into production, principally because of the absence of infrastructures to evacuate the ore.