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Momodou
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 Posted - 20 Feb 2008 : 19:36:24
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Carnegie Minerals Plc Denies Allegations
Carnegie Minerals Plc, an Australian based mining company whose licence was revoked by the government of The Gambia, has denied the allegations made against it at a recent press conference convened by government officials. The denial is contained in a release issued by RSN, the company news service.
According to Alan Hopkins, MD of Carnegie, ‘‘We strongly refute all charges that the Gambian Government has levied against us. We have been operating in The Gambia since 1999 and have always strongly adhered to the legal processes as set out by the Gambian Government and our mining licence.”
“The company strongly refutes these allegations that the Company has been commercially mining Titanium, Iron ore and Uranium from its mineral sands Licence in The Gambia” stated the release.
The release went on to say “The Company wants to make clear that a component of mineral sands (Ilmenite for which we are licensed to mine) is Titanium and Iron oxide. We would also like to clarify that trace amounts of uranium occurring in the Gambian mineral sands are usual for such deposits and cannot be economically extracted and therefore have no commercial value. The Company has previously notified the Gambian Government of this trace occurrence in its previous information submission and that Carnegie was willing to pay for independent international industry experts to review the Company’s mining data to assist with their understanding of it.”
The Company further claimed: “The Company has provided to The Gambian Government continuous full disclosure with each shipment since the start of the project. This included all weights, Independent SGS laboratory results & pricing calculations. SGS is one of the world’s leading testing and inspection businesses.
“Under the agreement signed with The Gambian Government prepared under the guidance of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Ltd of the UK, in the event any issue arose in relation to the project, there is a clear pre-agreed process which involves independent arbitration in London.”
Attempts to get the reaction of either the Secretary of State for Communication and Information Technology or the Secretary of State for Works, Construction and Infrastructure, yesterday, was unsuccessful. But we will continue to do so.
See the next issue for more.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 21/2008, 20 – 21 February 2008
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