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Guinea-Boke Project
Guinea has 1,155km of railways. This comprises 366km at Rail gauge, gauge and 789km at gauge. The latter includes 662km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry most of which is abandoned. The current status Conakry to Kankan (state owned railway line) In June 1959, the state-owned railway company ONCFG (Office National des Chemins de Fer de Guinée) was founded. The property of the former French colonial Conakry-Niger rail authority was transferred to it. Since 2010 the organisation has been known as Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer de Guinée (SNCFG). In the following years, the rolling stock wasn't maintained. Since 1993, with the exception of fuel shipments to Mamou, rail traffic was suspended. In 2008, the government of Guinea was in talks with Rio Tinto (corporation), Rio Tinto and BHP, BHP Billiton about the renovation of the Conakry-Kankan line. In 2011, the Brazilian company Vale (mining company), Vale began rebuilding the Conakry to Kankan railr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Minière De Boké
Société minière de Boké or SMB is one of the main business enterprises in Guinea. It deals mainly in Bauxite mining in the region of Boké, alongside CBG exporting from the ports of Dapilon and Katougouma on the Rio Nunez. Production SMB produced more than 36 million tons of Bauxite in 2018, and production has since risen to 48 million tons in 2023. According to reports, SMB is Guinea's biggest bauxite producer, and together with the partially state-owned Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée, the two companies are responsible for moving Guinea into a 22 percent share of the global bauxite market. SMB Winning Consortium The company, partnered with other companies along the Aluminum-production value chain to construct industrial infrastructure in Guinea. The company joined with Winning Alliance Africa Port Ltd. (the local subsidiary of the Singaporean Winning International Group, the largest shipping company in Asia), United Mining Supply Group (a french-funded transport an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matakong
Matakong is an island just off the coast of Guinea between the capital Conakry and the Sierra Leone border. Nomenclature Matakong is also called Matakan. Transport Matakong is the proposed port terminus of the heavy duty standard gauge Trans-Guinean Railway, aimed at transporting large iron and bauxite deposits to the coast, notably from the mines at Simandou, 650km east . The proposed Bellzone iron ore mine at Kalia may also share this railway line. New port A new deep water port is needed because, firstly, the port at Conakry is built out and there is no room, and secondly, because a new port at Matakong has better access though flatter ground to the hinterland. A 20 km pier may be needed to reach deep water suitable for panamax size ships. An artificial island contains the ship loader and ore dumps, and these is connected by a conveyor belt from the railway unloaded on the mainland. It is not known if the railway terminates in a Balloon loop. See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simandou Mine
The Simandou mine is a very large, high-grade iron-ore deposit in the southern highlands of Guinea. Running along the crest of the Simandou range in the Nzérékoré Region, the project holds an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes of ore grading 65 percent iron, making it one of the largest untapped iron-ore resources in the world. Development has been delayed by ownership disputes, corruption allegations, and the need for a 622-kilometre railway and a deep-water port to reach the Atlantic coast. Commercial exports are scheduled to begin in 2025, nearly three decades after the first exploration licence was issued. Geology and reserves Simandou is hosted in metamorphosed banded-iron formations (itabirites) that were later enriched to hematite and hematite–goethite ore. Two principal lenses, Pic de Fon and Ouéléba, lie about four kilometres apart at the southern end of the range. Each lens extends roughly 7.5 kilometres and is up to one kilometre wide. Total reser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the form of magnetite (, 72.4% Fe), hematite (, 69.9% Fe), goethite (, 62.9% Fe), limonite (, 55% Fe), or siderite (, 48.2% Fe). Ores containing very high quantities of hematite or magnetite (typically greater than about 60% iron) are known as natural ore or irect shipping ore and can be fed directly into iron-making blast furnaces. Iron ore is the raw material used to make pig iron, which is one of the main raw materials to make steel — 98% of the mined iron ore is used to make steel. In 2011 the ''Financial Times'' quoted Christopher LaFemina, mining analyst at Barclays Capital, saying that iron ore is "more integral to the global economy than any other commodity, except perhaps oil". Sources Elemental iron is virtually absent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transguinean Railways
The Transguinean Railways is a proposed set of heavy haul standard gauge railways in Guinea to support haulage of primarily iron ore and bauxite. Overview Existing railways in Guinea are badly maintained and feeble, and would need to be rebuilt from the ground up to support a tenfold or hundredfold increase in tonneages. The new lines would also avoid undesirable rises and falls though hilly terrain. Gauge The new lines would be standard gauge (1435mm) so as to benefit most from off the shelf equipment, and to achieve the highest secondhand value of surplus equipment. The existence of successful heavy duty narrow gauge lines in South Africa, Queensland and Brazil would not affect this choice. Dapilon Santou Railway (North Trans-Guinean Railway) This 135 km long Standard Gauge railway was officially opened in June 2021. It connects new mining areas at Santou II and Houda with a new river port at Dapilon near Yakabya, around 25km west of Boké The line is operated by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kindia
Kindia ( N’ko: ߞߌ߲ߘߌߦߊ߫) is the fourth largest city in Guinea, located about northeast of the nation's capital, Conakry. Its estimated population in 2008 was 181,126. Kindia serves as the capital and largest city of Kindia Prefecture and Kindia Region. It also functions as a sub-prefecture of Guinea. Geography The city is near Mount Gangan and the Mariée Falls. History The city was founded in 1904 on the route of Conakry Railway in Kankan.''Britannica''"Kindia", britannica.com, US, accessed on June 23, 2019 Economy Kindia grew around banana plantations following the construction of a now-closed railway to the capital. Demography The city of Kindia has an ethnically diverse population, although the Susu make up the majority of the population, followed by the Mandinka. The city is home to virtually all of the country's ethnic groups. After the capital Conakry, Kindia is home to the second largest Sierra Leonean community in Guinea. An estimated 9,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compagnie Des Bauxites De Kindia
Compagnie des bauxites de Kindia (CBK) is a Guinean company in the mining sector. Since 2001, it has mined the large Kindia Bauxite deposit in Kindia, in Guinea. Guinea is the fifth largest producer of bauxite in the world, but the country possesses the largest ore reserves. Estimates are as high as 25 billion tons, or the majority of the world's reserves. , The company has an annual production capacity of 3.5 million tons. They operate open-air mining pits and use two primary extraction methods: drilling and blasting technology, and thin-layer production using Wirtgen 2200SM mining machines History CBK was founded as a wholly state-owned enterprise, but was later transformed into a limited liability corporation A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the Flow-through entity, pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the l ..., ''Société de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum
Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. The term ''petroleum'' refers both to naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refining, refined crude oil. Petroleum is a fossil fuel formed over millions of years from anaerobic decay of organic materials from buried prehistoric life, prehistoric organisms, particularly planktons and algae, and 70% of the world's oil deposits were formed during the Mesozoic. Conventional reserves of petroleum are primarily recovered by oil drilling, drilling, which is done after a study of the relevant structural geology, sedimentary basin analysis, analysis of the sedimentary basin, and reservoir characterization, characterization of the petroleum reservoir. There are also unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir, unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aluminate
In chemistry, an aluminate is a compound containing an oxyanion of aluminium, such as sodium aluminate. In the naming of inorganic compounds, it is a suffix that indicates a polyatomic anion with a central aluminium atom. Aluminate oxyanions Aluminium oxide (alumina) is amphoteric: it dissolves in both bases and acids. When dissolved in bases it forms hydroxyaluminate ions in the same way as aluminium hydroxide or aluminium salts. The hydroxyaluminate or hydrated aluminate can be precipitated and then calcined to produce anhydrous aluminates. Aluminates are often formulated as a combination of basic oxide and aluminium oxide, for example the formula of anhydrous sodium aluminate NaAlO2 would be shown as Na2O·Al2O3. A number of aluminate oxyanions are known: * The simplest is the approximately tetrahedral found in the compound Na5AlO4, * framework ions in anhydrous sodium aluminate NaAlO2 and monocalcium aluminate, CaAl2O4 made up of corner-sharing tetrahedra. * A ring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
