Regis Immongault, Minister of Industry and Mines, told Reuters in an interview. Gabon planned to increase its manganese production to 5.7-million tons by 2015 from around 3.7-million tons currently, driven by a ramp-up in production from Eramet’s Compagnie Miniere de l’Ogooue (Comilog) and other smaller projects.
Gabon is the world's second-largest producer of manganese, a steel-making ingredient, after South Africa.
Immongault said Eramet is building a processing plant in Gabon for manganese and silico manganese, with as much as 85 000 t of refined output planned from 2014 onwards.
(Source from Reuters)
