Mining Engineering Degree, Leveling Mining Guide: Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – The government of the Republic of Korea will finance and build a National Mining Laboratory in Yaounde, Cameroon estimated to cost 7 million US Dollars (about FCFA 3.5 billion).
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Cameroon’s Minister of Industries, Mines and Technological Development, Badel Ndanga Ndinga and the leader of the Implement Survey Team of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Jae-Hong Choi, signed the financing agreement in Yaounde on September 1, 2011.
The Secretary of State at the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Technological Development, Dr Fuh Calistus Gentry, the brain behind the mining laboratory project had a working session with Korean delegation on August 31, 2011.
Korea International Cooperation Agency will provide the Mining Engineering design and construction of the building and necessary equipment for the laboratory such as mineral processing/refinement, mineral identification and chemical analysis equipment, the terms of reference of the agreement specified.
The first two years of the project will consist of building the laboratory and equipping it, while the ensuing two years will be devoted to training Cameroonians who will run the Mining Engineering laboratory.
“Before now, all our samples were sent to Europe and it has been time-consuming and costly. The laboratory is going to be commercial, meaning all countries in Central Africa would use the laboratory”, Dr Fuh Calistus said in a press interview after the agreement signing ceremony.
“We have more than a hundred mining companies in the country. Progress has been slow because samples had to go to Europe for analysis”, he further stated.
Cameroon has huge deposits of gold, diamond, bauxite, copper, titanium, chromium, iron, nickel.
