S.Africa: govt will ensure enough coal for Eskom, but coal still not domestic priority

The order is to support their rail operations at the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea.

Studies conducted over five decades and funded by the Chinese show the iron ore exporter also has uranium, lithium, cobalt, manganese and neodymium deposits.

The company previously submitted a claim for C$90 million with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

The new agreement had not resulted in “any major changes, just a little tweaking of things here and there,” Botswana’s president Duma Boko says.