Robert Martin Friedland

ArcelorMittal is obliged to let other companies use any excess capacity on the line but other miners in Guinea may be able to make better use of it than Niron – notably Canadian billionaire Robert Friedland's High Power Exploration (HPX) which took control of the huge Nimba iron ore concession from BHP and Newmont Goldcorp in 2019 (AC Vol 56 No 14 Ivanhoe rides into the elections)...

Ivanhoe chief Robert Friedland who is consistently bullish about the continent said that if South Africa did not have a plan to fix Eskom soon it would not get any further investment from the mining industry...

High Power Exploration (HPX) a US investment company run by the billionaire financier Robert Friedland announced in September that it had secured approval from the government of Guinea to buy the 95% stake in the Mount Nimba project previously held by BHP Billiton US group Newmont Goldcorp and Orano the French nuclear power group...

The flamboyant Robert Friedland the billionaire founder of Ivanhoe Mines told the Cape Town gathering that he 'doesn't mind paying… as long as that royalty goes to develop help and empower local people...

At the Mining Indaba in Cape Town in the days before the State of the Nation speech Zuma would have felt additional pressure from mining luminaries who shared the views of the CEOs who were directly in touch with the President such as Simanye's Neal Froneman Pallinghurst's Brian Gilbertson Adam Fleming Clifford Elphick of Gem Diamonds Africa Invest's Rob Hersov hedge fund manager Julian Schrager Lord Robin Renwick of Hannam and Partners and Ivanhoe's Robert Friedland...

Buccaneer mine owner Robert Friedland claims to have discovered the world's biggest undeveloped copper mine at Kamoa in Congo's Katanga Province...

Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum (Robert Friedland Vancouver Canada) which is prospecting on the western part of Kolwezi; focuses on China and Mongolia...

There are other potential bidders for Konkola North: South Africa's Anglovaal and the African Minerals Corporation for example which is backed by Robert Friedland through his Ivanhoe Capital investment company...