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KEY ASSETS OF CAMEROON

MINING SECTOR
Currently at least 52 types of mineral resources each constituting a mineral target have been discovered, each constituting a mineral occurrence. These mineral targets have been studied from the geochemical anomaly right to the deposit stage.

1. Gold: At least 140 targets mostly found within the boundaries of a vast corridor which includes the Western part of Central African Republic (RCA), the Southern part of Chad, the Eastern part of Eastern part of east Cameroon, the Adamawa province and the part of the north and far North Provinces. There is a cross-border continuity between the gold bearing targets of Cameroon, the CAR and Chad as well as an identity of the geological context.

2. Diamond: 17 targets 9 of which are found in the vast gold bearing corridor are currently exploited by the craft industry in the border zone with the CAR, then several occurrences in the series of lower Dja including a deposit (Mobilong) made up of 26 small scale mining sites. From Touboro to the Far South of the country, significant diamond occurrences were found along the 700km border with CAR which produces between 400,000 and 800,000 carats of diamond per annum.

3. Gem: At least five good sapphire targets were discovered in the sedimentary series of the gulf of Mamfe, in the Munaya and Nsanasakati watercourses. Research work gave a minimum guarantee of 830g of sapphire for 2,107g of gem, found in the Nsanarakati sector.
Sapphire was recently discovered in the Adamawa Province and is currently exploited mainly by small scale miners in 4 of the 5 divisions of the province.

4. Graphite: 5 shows at least are found in the Lom series around Betare Oya, in Yingui in the North – East of Douala, and Far North around Mayo Moue and Mayo Boula.

5. Titanium: more than 65 targets where discovered. Most of the targets expressed in the form of rutile and associated to disthene and garnet, are found in the vast para-derivative ditch of the Yaounde group, extended towards the NW over more than 50,000km2. Cameroon used to be the third world rutile producer after Australia and the United States. Recent studied indicate a 3 million ton of alluvial titanium reserves for the Akonolinga area, in the average watercourses, tributaries and main sewers. Good concentrations expressed in the form of titaniferous iron ore are found in sea-coast sands with a non exhaustive evaluation giving 500,000 tons of titaniferous iron ore. So, rutile reserves in Cameroon are the 2nd world reserve after Sierra Leone.

6. Aluminium: 6 bauxite occurrences and deposits were discovered among which the Mini Martap deposit of 1,116 billion tons with 43.7% of alumina and 1.8% of silica, geological reserves for this deposit can be estimated at 2 billion tons. More modest deposits could be singled out like those of Ngaoundal (120 MT), Fongo Tongo (46MT), Bangam (19MT) and a good occurrence in Foumban. This potential is the 5th or the 6th World reserve.

7. Oil: there are 3 coastal sedimentary oil-bearing basins: Rio del Rey, Douala and Kribi – Campo. Since 1997/98, oil is also mined in the Douala/Kribi – Campo (Ebome Marine) basins though it is a modest production (10 000 barrels/day). A positive oil well was already dug by PHILIPS in the Douala basin. Other sedimentary intercontinental basins possibly contain hydrocarbon: Mamfe, Garoua and Logone Birni basins in the Far North. The last basin shares boundary with the Doba basin in Chad from where oil is transported by Pipe line through Cameroon is low: approximately 100,000 barrels per day.

8. Natural Gas: Natural gas accompanies oil in all the basins seen above. However, very large concentrations were discovered in Douala/Kribi – Campo. These reserves are evaluated at 115 billion m3 including 86% of non-associated gas and 14% of gas cape. If we include uncertified reserves, the resource will exceed 225 billion m3.

9. Uranium: About fifty uranium targets have been discovered. Most of them, in the form of geochemical anomalies were detected by systematic mining inventory in the south of the 4th parallel.

10. Iron: Approximately 25 iron targets and deposits have been discovered among which the Mamelles deposits in the South of Kribi with 330 MT, 30% of iron: the Mbalam deposit in the South of Ngoila with reserves worth 807 MT of which 220MT makes up more than 60% of iron and 587 MT made up of 22-38% of Iron ore.

11. Cobalt: 6 occurences and deposits among which colbato nickeliferous laterite on serpentinite deposits are found in the North East of Lomie in the locality of Kongo, North and South of Mang. These deposits cover 240m2, but an attempt to evaluate with boring over a surface area of 8.5km2 in Kongo revealed 200.000 tons of cobalt metal accompanied by an appreciable tonnage of Nickel and Manganese for this small area. The company GEOVIC – Cameroon has obtained a mining permit over this area. Two other occurrences have been revealed in Ngoila and Mbalam.

12. Nickel: Beyond the Nickel deposit associated with laterite Cobalt on serpentinites; other 27 Nickel occurrences were discovered in relation to the iron-bearing furrows, with intrusions of ultra basic rocks, contact basement of schistoquartzitic series, or with the same schistoquartzitic series, recognized as sedimentary volcanoes.

13. Tin: 17 occurences were revealed among which the Mayo Darle deposit of which alluvia and eluvium are subject to an outdated small-scale mining with 6500 tons of cassiterite extracted from 1933 to 1968. The potential of this deposit is still to be defined. These occurrences are in connection with the young intrusive granites, the microclinized and gratinized base the iron-bearing furrows.

14. Minerals and construction materials

Clay: clay occurrences were discovered in the following provinces: Centre (Etoa, Mvan, Nanga Eboko, etc), Littoral (Dibamba, Makepe etc, etc), North West (Bambili, Bali, Mankon, Santa etc ), South west (Mamfe, Mukunda, Ediki etc), West (Marom, Kaolin of Mayouom, etc) and in the Far North of the country (Moufou, Dekounou, Mbe and Gamboukou, Zilling, Doubled…) Bentonite is found in Sabga and Baba in the North west province. Some SME exploit for craft industrial use and a very small quantity for the production of baked bricks and pottery artifacts.

- Limestone and Marbles: They are found mainly in the Northern part of the country. Reserves of limestone deposits in figuil are estimated at 600,000 tons and those of marble in Bidzar at 2,500.000 tons. Other limestone occurrences were found in the south west (Moko, Mbalangi, Bogongo…), the south (Mintom) and the Littoral Provinces.

- Granites, Basalts, Micahistes and Pouzzolane: 80% of the Cameroonian territory lies on exploitable crystalline basement (granites, syenite, gabbro, basalt, gneiss, etc). these materials, once shaped, constitute decorative stones with greater added-value. These materials can be found in the west (Batie, Foumbot….), in the Centre (Yaounde, Obala, Mbalmayo…), in the Littoral (Edea, Manjo, Loum….), in the North west (Santa, Mankon…) in the south west (MT Koupe, Tombel….) and in the Far North Provinces (Garoua, Kapsiki, Mts Mandara, etc).

- Nepheline syenite: formed from a massif of 8km long and 1km broad, on the SW-NE axis, dominating approximately 80km of the coastal plain of the south province. The centre of the massif is situated 16km to the south of the port and seaside city of kribi and at 3km from the Ebondja village located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The reserve is estimated at 320 million m3.
Talc (in Baonia), Brines (in Mamfe) and sand fusible (Manoka island).

CAMEROON

The Republic of Cameroon is a country of the central African sub region, located at the bottom of the Gulf of Guinea. It is, situated between the 2nd and 13th degree latitude north and the 9th and 16th degrees east longitude. Cameroon shares common borders with the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the west, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Gabon, the Republic of Congo in the south, the Central African Republic in the East and the Republic of Chad in the North. With surface area of 475,442km2