Gabon: Government promotes power projects to boost mining
Issue 295
- 26 Feb 2015
| 3 minute read
Speaking in Brussels on 2 February, the minister said a planned phase 2 expansion of the Moanda metallurgy complex by the Compagnie Minière de l’Ogooué (Comilog) was dependent on power availability and would require at least 80MW. Similarly, Nouvelle Gabon Mining, owned by Singapore-based investors, which is developing the Franceville manganese deposits and planning a manganese alloy plant, needs 70MW for phase one of the project and 80MW for the second phase. Existing generation capacity is not sufficient to supply these projects, let alone the future Belinga iron ore project, whose total reserves are estimated at 1bn tonnes.
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