Australian miners press Congo over seized iron ore projects Congo Republic has cancelled iron ore projects with three Australian miners, two of the companies said, and handed them to a firm “nobody knows anything about”, prompting one to seek $8.76 billion in damages from the central African nation. The sudden cancellation sparked alarm among the project owners after years of working closely with the government of Congo Republic. Sundance Resources Ltd and Equatorial Resources Ltd EQX.AX both said this week they had been notified through an official journal that their mining or exploratio...