U Mining Resources Inc. (Other OTC:UMNG.PK - News) today provided updates on the impending agreement in the Republic of Guinea. Comitrag S.A., the majority-owned subsidiary of U Mining, has been preparing the necessary additional documentation to satisfy the requirements of the Company’s official application for the BOOT Agreement.
When U Mining and Comitrag met with Guinea’s [...]

Reserves of uranium have been found in the west African country of Guinea by Australian mining company Murchison United NL, Guinean Mines and Geology Minister Ahmad Kante announced.
The discovery resulted from analysis of samples taken from the Firawa site at Kissidougou 600 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, the minister told an AFP [...]

Global Alumina Corporation announced that its board of directors will meet within this week to approve the establishment of a joint venture among an affiliate of BHP Billiton, Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (”DUBAL”), Mubadala Development Company PJSC (”Mubadala”) and the Company to develop and operate the Company’s alumina refinery project in the Republic of Guinea. [...]

Global Alumina Corporation announced that the Company has been informed that the proposed joint venture with an affiliate of BHP Billiton, Dubai Aluminium Company Limited (”DUBAL”) and Mubadala Development Company PJSC (”Mubadala”) to develop and operate the Company’s alumina refinery project in the Republic of Guinea has received board approvals from two joint venture partners, [...]

Martial law in Guinea has forced the world’s biggest bauxite exporter, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), to halt mining activities and deliveries of ore to the Kamsar port, company officials said on Wednesday.
Guinea, which holds a third of the world’s bauxite reserves, has been gripped by a wave of violent protests against President Lansana [...]

Unions in Guinea resumed a general strike on Monday in protest against President Lansana Conte’s rule and disrupted mining operations in the world’s top bauxite exporter, witnesses and officials said.
For the second time in a month, markets, shops, schools, banks and administration offices were closed in the capital Conakry and other towns around the West [...]

Union leaders in Guinea have given President Lansana Conte one week to name a prime minister, saying they will restart a suspended general strike in the West African country if he fails, a union negotiator said on Tuesday.
The public ultimatum reflects the suspicions of union bosses that Conte is dragging his feet over implementing a [...]

Schools, shops and markets in Guinea were shut on Wednesday as a nationwide general strike got under way, but the volatile West African country’s key bauxite industry did not immediately appear to be seriously affected.
Additional police and army patrols deployed around the streets of the capital Conakry on the first day of the indefinite strike, [...]

Mega Uranium Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has commenced a 5,000 metre diamond drilling programme to test several targets in the Mount Kakoulima copper-nickel-PGM project in Guinea, Africa. Mega also wishes to report that, FNX Mining Company Inc. (”FNX”) is no longer a partner in the project and Mega is now providing [...]

Protesters blocked streets in two bauxite industry towns in Guinea on Monday, accusing authorities in the West African state of failing to use funds to improve roads and living conditions, witnesses said.
The demonstrators, many of them women, used tyres, blocks of wood and pieces of iron to erect barricades in Fria and Kamsar, where some [...]