Simandou railway will uproot 10,000 people
Rio Tinto's $20 billion Simandou project in Guinea calls for a 670km railway across the West African nation that will displace thousands.
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See Geosense at the MENA Mining Show 2013, October 28-29, and see the latest in field spectrometers and spectroradiometers for mining.
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TransCanada says pipeline may have ruptured
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Gold price jumps 3% as some are caught short of the metal after Washington deal "just postpones the whole mess 3-4 months".