Pepel | |
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  Pepel Location in Sierra Leone | |
| Coordinates: 8°35′N13°04′W / 8.583°N 13.067°W | |
| Country |  Sierra Leone |
| province | Northern Province |
| District | Port Loko District |
| Elevation | 3 ft (1 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (GMT) |
Pepel is a coastal town in the Port Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.
Pepel has a port in the Sierra Leone River used for shipping bulk iron ore via the mining company African Minerals. [1]
Pepel is connected by a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge 84 km long railway to an iron ore mine at Marampa.
It is proposed to introduce a more efficient balloon loop at the port. [2]
An extension of this line to a deeper port at Tagrin Point is also proposed.
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Tagrin Point is the proposed location of a deep water port to replace the older and shallower port of Port Pepel in Sierra Leone. It would be connected to existing and new iron ore mined by an upgraded railway line converted to standard gauge.
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Coordinates: 08°34′54″N13°03′46″W / 8.58167°N 13.06278°W
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