Angola’s Cabinda province has estimated phosphate reserves of 240 million tons

Luanda, Angola, 29 Sept – Phosphate reserves discovered so far in Angola’s Cabinda province total an estimated 240 million tons, the national director for mines, Kavungo Marconi, according to Angolan news agency Angop.

The Geology and Mining Ministry official, who was speaking at the business forum between South Africa and Angola, which took 80 South African businesspeople to Luanda, noted that an economic feasibility study was underway for phosphate exploration as well as for construction of an industrial complex to process it.

He also said that Zaire, the second most northern province in Angola after Cabinda, had estimated copper reserves of 300 million tons and there were plans to build a port with a copper terminal in the region. According to Marconi there are also large copper reserves in the provinces of Moxico and Kuando Kubango, in eastern Angola.

In relation to iron, he said there were reserves in Huíla and Kwanza and construction of a mining complex in Huíla was being study. He added that a feasibility study was also underway for the iron reserves in Huambo province, as well as a prospecting study for bauxite in the provinces of Kwanza Sul and Uíge.

Marconi also said that Angola’s geological potential was not yet properly known and that current information about the mining sector was a result of the government’s efforts to develop the sector. (macauhub)

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