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Metorex confident DRC concessions 'in good standing'
Diversified miner Metorex CEO Charles Needham said on Wednesday that the company’s mining concessions in the Democratic of Congo (DRC) were “in good standing”, after a government official said that “not a single contract was properly constituted” in the State’s review of the mining industry there, sending the firm’s stock plunging in the morning.
“We are confident that our mining concessions are in good standing,” Needham told Mining Weekly Online, in Cape Town.
He went on to stress that Metorex’s operations in the country were continuing unaffected by the review that government was conducting on contracts in the DRC’s minerals industry.
On Tuesday, Mines Deputy Minister Victor Kasongo said the DRC government’s review of mining concessions in the country had exposed levels of irregularities that far exceeded its expectations.
He said that all contracts would now have to be renegotiated by different degrees.
However, Metorex was not concerned by this.
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Needham told the conference that Metorex expected to be three times its current size by 2012.
After the group’s recent acquisition of 46% of Copper Resources Corporation [LSE:CRC], it would proceed with bringing the high-grade Kinsenda copper mine in Congo into production.
In the 2008 financial year Metorex expected the contribution of copper to its earnings would increase as its Ruashi 2 project in Congo came on stream.
By 2010, the Kinsenda copper project, the Phoenix platinum tailings re-treatment operation in South Africa and the Manica gold mine in Mozambique should come on stream. By 2011 the contribution of fluorspar would increase.
“Between now and 2012 a lot of other things will happen,” he said.
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