Cameroon to construct sustainable mineral industry

The Cameroonian Minister of Mines, industry and Sustainable Development (Minmidt), Ernest Ngwaboubou, presented equipment for processing and interpretation of geophysical data to three specialized structures in the area Wednesday, October 7, 2015, in Yaoundé.

The absence of a discovery due to the lack of a mining industry for many years poses the depletion of reserves to the country. For Minmidt, experts estimate less than 50%, the degree of knowledge of the national basement.

And into the range of tools used for geological and mineral knowledge of the country, geophysics is positioned at the beginning of the string, with data that require training and specific equipment for their interpretation. As a result, some of these data are lurking in the drawer since 1971, due to lack of know-how and tools.

Furthermore, Minmidt through the project of capacity-building in the mining sector, funded by the World Bank, has acquired some equipment, for the benefit of the direction of the geology at Minmidt, the geological and mining Research Institute and the school of geology and mining at the University of Ngaoundéré based in Meiganga.