{"id":911,"date":"2010-03-08T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/0d55ed82d0d41ab6e4bf7931d9c76570#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:48:10","slug":"niger-canadian-gold-company-reporting-two-new-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-canadian-gold-company-reporting-two-new-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Canadian gold company reporting two new strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian run Samira Hill mine near the Niger\/Burkina border reports two new expansions.  Pres. Tandja received the first gold bar in 07, and apparently signed big deals in 2009, of which this is fruition. SEMAFO CEO Benoit La Salle: &quot;The Samira Horizon remains an important mining district for SEMAFO, hence our decision earlier this year to proceed with a two-year $6,000,000 exploration program on the property&#8230;. We are encouraged by these new discoveries at Samira Hill, the results of which may become part of our reserves and resources base and ultimately extend mine life. We believe that our continued exploration programs to fully define the property will ultimately benefit from existing infrastructures and contribute to increase value for our shareholders.&quot;  It would be interesting to see the full contracts signed with the Tandja government, and where that cash went, and to see if any went to protect the nearby W Transboundry Park from the arsenic pools used to process ore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian run Samira Hill mine near the Niger\/Burkina border reports two new expansions.  Pres. Tandja received the first gold bar in 07, and apparently signed big deals in 2009, of which this is fruition. SEMAFO CEO Benoit La Salle: &quot;The Samira Horizon remains an important mining district for SEMAFO, hence our decision earlier this year to proceed with a two-year $6,000,000 exploration program on the property&#8230;. We are encouraged by these new discoveries at Samira Hill, the results of which may become part of our reserves and resources base and ultimately extend mine life. We believe that our continued exploration programs to fully define the property will ultimately benefit from existing infrastructures and contribute to increase value for our shareholders.&quot;  It would be interesting to see the full contracts signed with the Tandja government, and where that cash went, and to see if any went to protect the nearby W Transboundry Park from the arsenic pools used to process ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-canadian-gold-company-reporting-two-new-strikes\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[249,341,338,339,340,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1694,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/niger-greenpeace-reoprt-on-the-nuclear-poisoning-of-niger-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":911,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Greenpeace reoprt on the Nuclear poisoning of Niger","date":"April 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Greenpeace's 30 March report on radioactivity levels in the streets of Arlit and its suburb Akokan has been repeatedly denied by French nuclear company AREVA, the operator of the two nearby mines. 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Tuesday the nation voted on a referendum -- directly in violation of the 1999 constitution -- which would give dictatorial powers to sitting President Tandja.\u00a0 Of course \"the nation\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":935,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-did-the-coup-sink-the-areva-deal-no\/","url_meta":{"origin":911,"position":2},"title":"Niger: Did the coup sink the AREVA deal? No.","date":"March 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I.S. Gaoh of LE TEMOIN argues that the just announced scaling back of Areva's Imouraren mine schedule shows that backers of the coup (Hama Amadou?) were part of an agreement that AREVA would get a better uranium deal if Tandja was overthrown. 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