Sentence examples for mineral contracts from inspiring English sources

He'll also talk trade, with an auction for lucrative mineral contracts up for grabs, and a beauty parade leading to heads of state doing all they can to impress.

Moreover, Beijing is signing up energy and mineral contracts and, as the New York Times reported on Wednesday, stockpiling not only iron ore but also aluminum, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, coal and oil.

Complaints about abusive oil and minerals contracts abounded at a recent conference on the management of African natural resources in Kinshasa.

Upon cooling, the molten minerals contract and form small spheres with dense surface structure (Fig. 2c) due to surface tension and rapid temperature drop.

The World Bank has announced efforts to create a $50 million trust fund for use by African countries negotiating mineral, oil and gas contracts.

The exact size of the global market is unknown because there is no public commodity price index for the mineral and most purchase contracts are confidential.

And they're buying up long-term contracts on minerals, you name it.

It has scoured the globe in a bid to secure ownership or long-term contracts for minerals and energy to improve the security of deliveries.

However, we think organic revenue growth has reached a turning point, and will benefit from the end of the process of exiting lower margin training contracts and minerals will be less of a drag.

Third, Kerry frames the US and China as competitors for Africa's natural resources — "they're buying up long-term contracts on minerals, you name it" — and this adds to a 'New Scramble for Africa' narrative in which Africans appear merely as pawns in a Great Power contest (much like, say, the Cold War).

China and Afghanistan will sign a strategic agreement at the SCO, elevating their relationship as China shops for raw material and oil exploration contracts in mineral-rich Afghanistan.