|
|
 |
|
|
Mining industry of Cameroon by zyzy wang
|
|
|
Mining industry of Cameroon |
|
|
|
|
|
Business,Business News,Business Opportunities
|
|
Cameroon Overview
Cameroon has a total area of approximately 475 thousand square kilometers, a coastline of some 400 kilometers, and a population approaching 18 million people.
Mining History
As of April 2008, Cameroon has no industrial mining history. Cameroon undeveloped mineral resources include bauxite, cobalt, gold from lode deposits, granite, iron ore, nepheline syenite, nickel, and rutile. Strong metal and industrial mineral prices since 2003 have encouraged companies to develop mines. The Nkamouna enriched cobalt-nickel-manganese-iron laterite deposits and several other nickeliferous laterite deposits in southeast Cameroon were first discovered and investigated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during 1981-1986, in a cooperative project with the Cameroon Ministry of Mines, Water and Energy to evaluate mineral potential in southeastern Cameroon. Due to the remote location and the low nickel prices at the time, the discovery did not draw much attention. No further exploration took place on the property until geologist William Buckovic became aware of the nickel discovery in 1988.
The southeast region and nearby regions in Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic have few producing mineral deposits and few with near-term production potential. Most of this region is underlain by Proterozoic granite-gneiss-schist terrains. Within the region, ultramafic rocks, the original source of the cobalt and nickel, are confined to the project area. There has been no previous production of minerals from the project area.[citation needed]
Alluvial gold is artisanally exploited from stream gravels in parts of Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, and Central African Republic. However, the U.S. Geological Survey 2002 estimate for total gold production from all four countries combined is less than 1,600 kilograms, or less than 50,000 ounces per year. The portion of this yield from within a 300-km radius of the Geovic Project is likely on the order of 20,000 ounces per year, a relatively insignificant amount by international comparisons. In the southwest part of the Central African Republic, alluvial gold is accompanied by small quantities of alluvial diamonds in streams which drain Cretaceous sandstone and conglomerates exposed further east. The Cretaceous formations do not extend into Cameroon.
Geology of Cameroon
Cameroon Mining Laws & Regulations
Institutions
Economics
Commodities
Bauxite (Aluminum-bearing ore)
As of April 2008, bauxite is not mined in Cameroon; it is only refined. The raw material is shipped from around the world to a smelter in Eda where a supply of hydro-electric power is available for processing. The refined metal is exported globally.
Limestone
Limestone production in 2004 was 260,000 metric tons.
Cobalt
A Mining Permit was decreed in favor of GeoCam in 2003 that covers the entire cobalt mineral province in southeastern Cameroon, perhaps the largest primary cobalt resource in the world.
Diamonds
Gold
Gold yielded an estimated 1500 kg in 2004 and was produced by small-scale artisanal miners, mostly in the eastern part of the country.
Iron Ore
Nickel
Uranium
Current projects
Cobalt, Nickel & Manganese Project
References and footnotes
^ CIA World Factbook.
^ UNDP Project CMR/81/005).
^ U.S. Geological Survey, 2002.
v d e
Mining in Africa
Sovereign
states
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Cte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Djibouti Egypt1 Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda So Tom and Prncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited
recognition
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories
Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberana (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Runion (France) Puntland (Somalia) Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Southern Sudan (Sudan) Zanzibar (Tanzania)
1 Transcontinental country.
Categories: Economy of Cameroon Mining by countryHidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2008 I am a professional editor from Chinese Manufacturers, and my work is to promote a free online trade platform. http://www.chinaqualitycrafts.com/ contain a great deal of information about sheet metal shrinker , edge milling machine welcome to visit!
Related Articles -
sheet metal shrinker, edge milling machine,
|
Rate This Article  |
|
|
|
|
|
Do you Agree or Disagree? Have a Comment? POST IT!
| Reader Opinions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Author Login |
|
|
 |
Advertiser Login
ADVERTISE HERE NOW!
Limited Time $60 Offer!
90 Days-1.5 Million Views
|
|
TIM FAY
After 60-plus years of living, I am just trying to pass down some of the information that I have lea...more
|
|
|
|
|
GENE MYERS
Author of four books and two screenplays; frequent magazine contributor. I have four other books "in...more
|
|
|
|
|
DONNIE LEWIS
I'm an avid consumer of a smoothie a day living, herbs, vitamins and daily dose of exercise. I'm 60...more
|
|
|
|
|
ADRIAN JOELE
I have been involved in nutrition and weight management for over 12 years and I like to share my kn...more
|
|
|
|
|
ALEX BELSEY
I am the editor of QUAY Magazine, a B2B publication based in the South West of the UK. I am also the...more
|
|
|
|
|
LAURA JEEVES
At LeadGenerators, we specialise in content-led Online Marketing Strategies for our clients in the t...more
|
|
|
|
|
SUSAN FRIESEN
Located in the lower mainland of B.C., Susan Friesen is a visionary brand strategist, entrepreneur, ...more
|
|
|
|
|
STEPHEN BYE
Steve Bye is currently a fiction writer, who published his first novel, ‘Looking Forward Through the...more
|
|
|
|
|
STEVE BURGESS
Steve Burgess is a freelance technology writer, a practicing computer forensics specialist as the pr...more
|
|
|
|
