Phillipe-Henri Edmonds (Phil)

After 18 months of intense deal-making and fighting off counterbids by rivals such as ex-England cricketer Phil Edmonds Glencore won control of Katanga Mining in 2008...

The French major has hung on since 1980 winning a 2008 legal battle for ownership after Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon awarded the concession to Britain’s White Nile owned by Philippe Edmonds (AC Vol 48 No 12)...

The White Nile in question was the Sudan government oil company not the outfit of former England cricketer Phil Edmonds in South Sudan an enforcement official at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs assured us...

In October the British-based Central African Mining and Exploration Company (CAMEC) founded by ex-England cricketer Phil Edmonds bought a majority stake in Zhejiang Galico which produces chemicals used in the processing of cobalt...

On 21 November about 5 000 workers were made redundant at the Mukondo mine and the associated copper-and-cobalt plant at Luita operated by Boss Mining a subsidiary of the Central African Mining & Exploration company (CAMEC) founded by former England cricketer Philippe Edmonds and listed in London...

High profile British business figures such as Nicholas Van Hoogstraten former England cricketer Phil Edmonds and Charles Davy (the father of Prince Harry's girlfriend) enjoy cordial relations with Mugabe's regime...

Camec run by former England cricketer Phil Edmonds (AC Vol 49 No 8; an associate of Billy Rautenbach and investor in Southern Sudan's oil) acquired platinum interests from Anglo in the same area in April when it bought Lefever for $5 mn...

The expansion of White Nile headed by former England cricketer Phil Edmonds continues however; it recently won rights to nearly 30 000 square kilometres in Ethiopia's Southern Rift Basin and has designs on acreage in Kenya...

For example former England cricketer Phil Edmonds' Central African Mining and Exploration Company whose concession was withdrawn last August (AC Vol No 48 No 19) began discussions with Gécamines about settling matters amicably without recourse to the courts...

• Phil Edmonds: 56 Rhodesian-born educated in Zambia and at Cambridge University he is a former England cricketer with the reverse Midas touch for natural resource projects in Africa...