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Dubai’s DSA Leads Bid for Mines Once Owned by Guptas, Glencore

  • DSA of Dubai owns 49% of bidding venture, S. Africans the rest
  • Assets include prized access to exports through Richards Bay
Operations At The Erdenes Mongol LLC Tavan Tolgoi Coal Mine
Photographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg
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Dubai’s DSA Investments has teamed up with two South African companies to bid for coal assets that Glencore Plc was pressured into selling to a company controlled by the politically connected Gupta family in 2015.

Orchid Mining, a unit of DSA, owns 49% of the venture making the bid and the balance is held by the Smada Group and Nehawu Investment Holdings, which invests funds on behalf of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union.