Mining

Opportunities in Mining Sector

• Potential investors have a plethora of choices, as Liberia is endowed with a variety of mineral resources, both higher value metals and industrial minerals.
• Gold, diamonds and iron ore are the principal mineral resources occurring in ancient greenstone belts in many parts of the country.
• Excellent potentials that are currently untapped are platinum, uranium and niobium, and base metals such as nickel, cobalt, tin, lead and manganese.
• Other industrial rocks and minerals such as sulphur, phosphates, clays (kiyanite), granite, silica sand, heavy mineral sands (rutile and ilmenite) and diabase/dolorite are also known to exist in both small and large quantities.