Mbalam-Nabeba Iron Ore project: Prof Fuh Calistus launches effective start of technical works.

The interim Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, Prof Fuh Calistus Gentry, has officially launched the effective start of the technical works of the Mbalam-Nabeba Iron Ore project.

Population accords warm welcome to Minister Fuh Calistus


According to the minister, these will ensure that Cameroon becomes an iron ore exporting country from 2024.
“So we are very happy today that we have reached a milestone. As we leave here, work will continue and we believe that in the next six months, iron ore from this project will be ready for export,” Prof Fuh stated.
“We have technically launched the open pit mine of this project and as we leave here, work starts. This will join SINOSTEEL and Grand-Zambi to complete what the President of the Republic instructed us to do,” he added. 
The project will see the construction of an iron ore enrichment plant, a mineral terminal at the Kribi Autonomous Port, metallurgical steel industry and a 450-km railway line from Nabeba in Congo passing through Mbalam to Kribi for the transportation of iron ore.