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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Régis Immongault Tatagani, Minister of Industry and Mining from The Report: Gabon 2013
Articles & Analysis | Change with the times: Countries around the world are revisiting the rules they apply to the mining sector from The Report: Gabon 2013
Over the past few years, with commodity prices spiralling ever higher and minerals like gold reaching record levels, many host governments have felt that they were missing out on potential windfalls from their extractive industries – much needed in an era of global belt-tightening. Among conditions of economic uncertainty, the mining sector – on the...
Articles & Analysis | Branching out: Efforts are under way to diversify industrial output from The Report: Gabon 2013
The domestic industrial base is small, but with a concerted government strategy intended to leverage the country's sizeable natural endowments towards higher-value-added processing, there is growth potential. Existing capacity is focused in the areas of building materials, food, beverages and limited timber and manganese processing. Currently,...
Articles & Analysis | Added potential: Going beyond manganese into other minerals from The Report: Gabon 2013
While Gabon has a well-established niche in the global mining market as the world’s second-largest manganese producer, its ambition to significantly expand exploration is generating strong interest from junior miners. Many of the majors, some of which are present in the country already, still consider the central African state essentially a...
Chapter | Industry & Retail from The Report: Ras Al Khaimah 2013
As part of its “20-20” strategy, under which no single sector should account for more than 20% of GDP or 20% of the fiscal surplus, the government is working to diversify the local economy. Growth is expected in the industrial sector in line with efforts to expand downstream capacity, extending production across the supply chain. Improvements to electricity capacity are planned as well, which...
Hydrocarbons are not the only underground resource to yield billions of dollars of profit in Saudi Arabia. The mining of metallic ores, phosphates, bauxite and construction materials is an area of growth that the government hopes will become the third pillar of the economy, after oil and petrochemicals. Indeed, Saudi Arabia encompasses geologically diverse areas that contain a wealth of resources...