Along with Ngaoundal, Minim is part of a large project to mine the bauxite of the Adamawa Plateau.[4][5] Covering an area of 1000km2, the deposit represents an important component of the Adamawa plateau and the gentle slopes which surround it make it easy to access.[6] Studies of feasibility and environmental impact were carried out[6] and a mining development plan was completed in May 2016.[7] Financing for the construction of a facility for refining the bauxite into aluminium and for transport infrastructure is still outstanding.[8][9]
The metre gauge railway line and many of its bridges are being upgraded.
References
12Troisième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (3e RGPH, 2005), Bureau central des recensements et des études de population du Cameroun (BUCREP), 2010.
↑Marthe Effoudou, «Mines: Le potentiel de la bauxite camerounaise», Le Journal du Cameroun, 5 July 2012 Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine
↑«Grands projets miniers: Le lent décollage… - Bauxite de Minim, Martap et Ngaoundal: Infrastructures, le goulot d’étranglement», PRS/MC, 19 February 2015 Archived 2016-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
↑«Le financement des infrastructures pour la Bauxite de Minim-Martap à prendre», Cameroon Tribune, 9 May 2016
↑«Grands projets miniers: Le lent décollage... - Bauxite de Minim, Martap et Ngaoundal: Infrastructures, le goulot d’étranglement», PRS-MC, 19 February 2015 Archived 2016-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
S.-M. Eno Belinga[fr] & François Desthieux, «Histoire géologique de Minim-Martap et du Ngaoundal», Annales de la Faculté des Sciences du Cameroun 5, pp.27–32
Jean Boutrais (ed.), Peuples et cultures de l'Adamaoua (Cameroun): actes du colloque de Ngaoundéré, du 14 au 16 janvier 1992, ORSTOM, Paris; Ngaoundéré-Anthropos, 1993, 316 p. ISBN2-7099-1167-1
Martap, on the Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC) website
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