Simfer/Rio Tinto, wrestling for long years with Conakry on problems of extracting Simandou's iron ore, has been relatively spared up to now by the review program that was initiated by president Alpha ...

The Simandou iron ore deposit is divided into four blocks: Simfer, a joint venture between Rio Tinto, Chalco Iron Ore Holdings Limited, and the Guinean government, is developing Blocks 3 and 4 in the ...

Barnes clarified that the railway under construction in Guinea is exclusive to the Simandou Iron Ore Project and is being developed by Rio Tinto Simfer and the Winning Consortium. “That railway is not ...

At the SimFer mine project, "bulk earthworks are progressing and permanent process facilities installation will commence in Q2." Rail development "is progressing well with all bridge piers ...

(Reuters) - A routine night shift ended in tragedy for Alseny Camara. The 32-year-old was working for a Chinese subcontractor building a railway to reach Simandou - the world's largest new iron mining ...

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 ...

A handout photo of local workers sitting on a rail support column along the Simandou rail corridor ...

The other two blocks will be mined by Rio Tinto Simfer, a joint venture between mining giant and majority shareholder Rio Tinto and a consortium of Chinese investors led by Chinalco, the world’s ...

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 ...

Wabtec will begin delivering locomotives for the Simandou project in 2025. The agreement follows a locomotive order a few months earlier from SimFer (a Rio Tinto joint venture) to serve its operations ...