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Agreements reached on trans-Guinean infrastructure in milestone for Simandou iron ore project

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Rio Tinto and the Simfer joint venture (Simfer) reached an important milestone by concluding key agreements with the Republic of Guinea (West Africa) and Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) on the trans-Guinean infrastructure for the world class Simandou iron ore project. Aerial view of Simandou project.

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BMW Group Plant Landshut light metal foundry recertified by Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

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Going forward, the aim is to build our new vehicles with 50 percent secondary raw materials. The conditions under which the raw material bauxite is extracted by open cast mining and processed in countries like Australia, Brazil and Guinea are also important to the company.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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Elsewhere in West Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon collectively waste about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. Successful capture and flare gas utilization could potentially triple per capita electricity consumption for this nation of 155 million people. Expand access to financing.

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The Seabed Solution

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But after raising some US $686 million , building three large undersea drilling robots, and securing a license to mine the seabed off Papua New Guinea, Nautilus went bankrupt in November 2019. When it ceased operations, it hadn’t mined any metal ore at all. The Metals Company, too, faces headwinds.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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In 2015, under pressure to address migration from Syria’s civil war, European leaders failed to build a working redistribution of asylum seekers, but they did set in motion a legal framework for a newly empowered European border agency. Jacob says he spent somewhere between three and four years trying to migrate from Guinea to Spain.

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RAND reports suggest US DoD use less petroleum fuel to deal with high prices, not count on alternatives

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A fourth volume examining energy security in Nigeria and other nations in the Gulf of Guinea is scheduled for later publication. government concerns about human rights violations and corruption may impede partnership building in such countries as Nigeria, he noted. Turkey) or building new partnerships (e.g., Additionally, U.S.

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SpaceX a bastion of independent US, European spaceflight amid Russian threats

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In response to sanctions after its unprovoked invasion, Russia announced that it was withdrawing support from Europe’s French Guinea Soyuz launch operations, effectively killing Arianespace’s Soyuz offering and potentially delaying several upcoming European launches indefinitely.

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