Guinea junta halts Rio Tinto's Simandou iron ore project - MINING.COM - MINING.com

The 2-billion-tonne iron ore deposit has sat undeveloped in Guinea's southeast for 25 years.

“[Colonel Doumbouya] therefore ordered the cessation of all activity on the ground pending the answers to questions posed to various actors and the clarification of the operational mode by which the … [+3503 chars]

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