Turkey top envoy goes to Niger in bid to secure uranium supplies
The trip comes after Niger’s military government withdrew mining rights from Canadian and French companies to develop uranium deposits.
Last year, it paid US$4.65 billion to acquire U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips’ stake in the Syncrude oilsands project in northern Alberta. The deal for a nine per cent share of the world’s biggest oilsands development marked China’s largest-ever investment