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Crunch time for Rio at Simandou

The pieces are beginning to fall into place for Rio Tinto and Simandou, the huge (200 million tonnes), high-grade, undeveloped iron ore deposit in the not-very-stable and somewhat impoverished West African state of Guinea.

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The new regime looks to be more friendly to Rio than the government of ousted dictator Alpha Condé.