Foreign mining companies that have powered an economic emergence in Mali so far appear relatively unscathed.
Not just the big foreign mining companies but also the UN mission who have more than 10, 000 staff in the country.
The Indonesian government announced on March 5, 2012, that all foreign mining companies in Indonesia have 10 years to transfer their ownership by at least 51% to the Indonesian central, state and local governments.
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Many relate in some way to foreign investment in mining and hydrocarbons, ostensibly at least.
There has also been concern regarding foreign investment being affected with mining taxes being raised.
All of which helps explain why the region has failed as yet to lure in much foreign direct investment, beyond mining and farming.
In Latin America, China is the third largest foreign investor, mostly in the mining and hydrocarbon industry.
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In 2010, according to a study by the Australia Institute, eighty-three per cent of domestic mining production was owned by foreign companies.
The world's largest tin-mining company is positioned primarily as a foreign exchange play.
Oyu Tolgoi is the poster project for a national mining boom that sees Ulaanbaatar crawling with foreign miners and their investment bankers.
This new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
The priority to find "African solutions" would bolster and diversify national economies currently too dependent on low-wages and unhealthy jobs in mining and oil industries designed primarily to benefit foreign investors.
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Unless the Minister of State for Indigenisation and Empowerment alters the share allotment, the law would mean that several banks, mining companies and phone companies -- among other foreign businesses -- will have to relinquish control.
Speaking at the Paydirt Africa Down Under conference in Perth, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Dennis Richardson said the number of Australian mining firms listed on the stock exchange and operating in Africa had jumped from 54 in 2003 to more than 160 this year.
Having spent much of the flight time in serious conversation with the Afghan ministers of foreign affairs, defense, finance, interior, education, agriculture, mining, health, and labor and social affairs, almost all of them, my friends over many years now, I can say that the United States and the Afghan governments have never been better aligned and had such seriousness of purpose in trying to reach our common objectives.
Introduced to tackle machine theft, it has helped turn Komatsu into the biggest foreign supplier of excavators and dump trucks to China's booming construction and mining companies.
Also, several news sources have recently noted that the PRC has purchased controlling stakes in much of the North's mining industry, which is crucial to the North's access to foreign exchange.
Faced with such troubles, mining houses are scrambling to restructure, cut costs, and make themselves more attractive to foreign capital.
In October the government ordered mining and energy firms to repatriate all their export dollars and citizens to justify every purchase of foreign currency.
The mining companies point out the huge benefits the project brings in terms of employment, tax revenue and foreign exchange.
While platinum prices have fallen in dollar terms over the last few months, fluctuations in the foreign-exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and South African rand have actually meant South African mining companies are effectively receiving a higher payment for their metal, Tremblay said.
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Energy and Mining Minister Youcef Yousfi, who a day earlier insisted Algeria can keep its gas facilities secure without foreign forces' help, said he believes the targeted gas facility will be back running "in the shortest possible time" and that foreign workers will soon return.
Senators are encouraged not to spend precious time worrying about an accord that the United States Navy strenuously supports, the Bush administration wants promptly ratified, various mining and energy interests and environmental groups (however implausibly) agree is desirable and the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a couple of years ago.
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