Africa is witnessing a series of transformative mining projects, including critical minerals, gold and copper which are ...

Then in 2022, following a coup the previous year, Rio's Simfer consortium with China's Chalco Iron Ore Holdings formed a joint venture with the new government. Chalco did not immediately respond ...

Wabtec agreed a few months ago to supply Simfer with a US$277 million locomotive fleet. After almost three decades of false starts, Guinea's massive Simandou iron ore mine is on track to deliver ...

Simandou’s mining concession is divided into four blocks. The project is a partnership between Rio Tinto, Chalco Iron Ore Holdings (CIOH), and a Chinalco-led consortium, Winning Consortium ...

Rio Tinto holds the rights to Blocks 3 and 4 – which host a 2.8 billion tonne resource – in the south of the overall concession area and is the majority shareholder and managing partner of Rio Tinto ...

Not so iron ore. CISA steel mill output for the first 10 days of January was strong. • The SimFer mine is on track to deliver first production at the mine gate in 2025, ramping up over 30 months ...

On Simandou iron-ore project: "The SimFer mine is on track to deliver first production at the mine gate in 2025, ramping up over 30 months to an annualized capacity of 60 million tons per year (27 ...

In a statement late on Monday, Rio Tinto said that an employee from a contracting company died in an incident at the SimFer port site in Morebaya, in the West African nation on Saturday.

Credit: Reyhan Reynardot / Shutterstock. China’s XCMG Machinery has announced a $110m equipment supply deal with Rio Tinto SimFer for Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project. The contract will see XCMG ...

China’s Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) has signed an agreement with global miner Rio Tinto’s Simfer to supply equipment for its giant, untapped Simandou iron ore project in Guinea ...

GUINEA: The SimFer mining joint venture has awarded Wabtec a US$277m contract to supply Evolution Series ES43ACmi diesel locomotives for the Simandou iron ore project. The number of locos is not being ...