Geologist says 300 discovered minerals are not yet economically minable

By NDIMUH B. SHANCHO Cameroonian geologist, Dr. George Mafany Teke, who is also the South West Regional Delegate of Scientific Research and Innovation, MINRESI, has clarified that the over 300 new minerals discovered in Cameroon recently by the World Bank and the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development, are not economically minable. In an interview granted The SUN, July 11, 2019, the economic geologist posited that “the 300 new discoveries are within the range of the inferred and indicated mineral deposits”. The inferred mineral resources, according to him, means the area that has been studied have traces of the…