EMEA: Petra’s Dippenaar bullish; Ouagadougou welcomes leachers; PE heads to Africa

View this email in your browser EMEA Wednesday, October 1, 2014 De Beers data supports Petra grade story Johan Dippenaar, chief executive of Petra Diamonds, insists the undiluted ore scenario from the company's major mines, Cullinan and Finsch, starting in the 2016 financial year will result in a remarkable increase in free cash flow generation in future. Share this: Amara reduces risks at Yaoure The resource upgrade at Amara Mining's Yaoure gold project in Cote d'Ivoire this week has confirmed it as the "pre-eminent gold development asset in West Africa", according to chief executive John McGloin, but the likely up front capital requirement remains a cloud over the project. Share this: Heaps of leaching in Burkina Heap leach experts who haven't recently passed through Ouagadougou would likely be rare given the number of developments in the pipeline in Burkina Faso over the short-to-medium term. 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Everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." – Albert Einstein Share this: Attracted to the Coast In March 2012, the Ivory Coast government announced its intention to reform its mining code, which hadn't been updated since 1995. Share this: Reducing the restoration burden Last year's collapse of Scottish Coal and ATH Resources highlighted the ongoing uncertainty around the closure and restoration of their respective sites, along with a number of others in a similar position across Scotland. Share this: Freeing up southern Africa's transport corridors Two significant logistics announcements in recent days highlight the amount of effort being put into expanding and improving the rail and port transport corridors in southern Africa. Share this: Slow and steady extends the race AIM-listed minnow Ariana Resources plc will enter the final quarter of this year with its goal of graduating to gold producer tantalisingly close, following the securement of finance and additional land needed to get building at its modest Red Rabbit gold project in western Turkey. Share this: Turkey welcomes mine safety laws When 301 miners died in a Turkish coal mine in May this year the world reacted in outrage, but really the disaster exposed what the industry had already known for quite some time: Turkey is not a safe place for coal miners. Share this: Support for Anatolia's Temrezli uranium Anatolia Energy Ltd, the Turkish uranium explorer, said it raised enough funds in a recent A$6 million (US$5.2 million) placement to take it to a development decision on its Temrezli ISR project. Share this: Not a subscriber? 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