Turnbull is also considering the future of another Liberal minister, Stuart Robert, who has faced questions over a "private" 2014 trip to China when he was assistant defence minister to witness a mining deal and meet with a Chinese vice minister.
Turnbull was also set to decide on the future of the human services and veterans' affairs minister, Stuart Robert, who has faced questions over a "private" 2014 trip to China when he was assistant defence minister to witness a mining deal and meet with a Chinese vice minister.
The current President Alpha Condé, himself being increasingly accused by his enemies of corruption and a dictatorial bent, launched a plan to investigate suspicious mining deals and, if necessary, rip them up and run new, open tenders.
In response, some local organisations have been asking for a new mining law that takes into consideration relevant international conventions – for instance, on people's rights to be properly consulted and compensated in relation to possible new uses of their land, on pollution control, on taxation, and on transparency around mining deals and mining companies' finances.
Joe Mathebula, who is close to clinching a $50 million mining deal, swivels and swings and his nearly perfect shot whistles through the thorn trees as his colleagues hoot and his caddie scrambles.
Malcolm Turnbull has dumped Stuart Robert from the ministry after a scandal over a "private" trip to Beijing to oversee a mining deal involving a major Liberal donor and meet a Chinese vice-minister.
More recently, a $7bn mining deal was signed between a little-known Chinese company and Guinea's government – an agreement that came weeks after soldiers there opened fire on demonstrators and allegedly raped women in the streets.
Less than a year later in August 2014, Robert, the then assistant defence minister, took what he says was a "personal" trip to Beijing with friend and Liberal Party donor Paul Marks to celebrate a mining deal.
In 2005 the firm paid $7 billion, then a big sum for a mining deal, to buy WMC Resources, an Australian company.
According to Mr Pinchuk's claim, the pair reneged on a mining deal with him, leaving him $2bn out of pocket.
Last month he denied French media allegations that he made $210m in kickbacks during a mining deal in 2007.
