Åke som ledare för Lamcos tandläkarkliniker i Nimba och Buchanan. Jag som chef för Lamco i Liberia. Då hade vi hunnit bilda familjer.

as „a world of iron ore‟ on Mount Nimba, and the Liberian American-Swedish Minerals Company (LAMCO) was formed by a group of US and Swedish investors in order to exploit this ore body. A 273 km railway was rapidly built between 1960 and early 1963, connecting northern Nimba County to the coast at Buchanan.

COPDA Sweden; Svenska Utbildningsfonden för Liberia Life in the 60's & 70's in Nimba, Yekepa, Liberia, LamcoA little bit of history from the past,its a little bit shaky and poor quality, transferd from old S-8 Filmed by Raymond Hedman between 1969 - 1974 The Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) is a defunct Liberian corporation that mined for iron ore in the Nimba range in Liberia during the second half of the twentieth century. Founded in 1955 by American and Swedish investors, the company established the first large-scale mining operation in Liberia following the discovery in the 1950s of the Nimba ore body by geologist Sandy Clarke. 2015-09-25 · LAMCO, a Liberian-Swedish American Mining Company was a joint venture company. The company’s Iron Ore Palletizing and Washing Plant were located in Lower Buchanan, Grand Bassa County. The national government that was supposed to represent the interests of the Liberian people demonstrated total disregard for the health of the people and the safety of the environment.

1953, The Liberian-American-Minerals Company was given a 70 year concession Nimba, Railroad, Harbor and Maintenance works in Nimba and Buchanan. Class of (probably) 1969 at Lamco primary school at (probably) Buchanan. Top row, middle: Nuja Dieben. Anybody you know on the picture? 3 May 2019 Yekepa was a LAMCO company town in Liberia's Nimba Mountains, the border with Guinea, some 300km to the port of Buchanan for export. Without the use of the LAMCO railroad to carry the ore to the Liberian port of Buchanan, Guinea would be faced with prohibitive costs of transportation.

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Mina 20 år med LAMCO i Liberia upplevde jag som kanske den bästa perioden grupper mellan ong>Buchanan ong> och Nimba, och Fält-Ivar kämpade sej

för tre veckor sedan, driver okontrollerade soldater runt i de båda gruvstäderna Yekepa och Buchanan. I Lamco finns idag ca 700 svenskar totalt. Bildunderskrift: Järnmalmen i Nimbaberget i Liberia är snart slut, men nu hotas hela Liberia är Afrikas äldsta republik och dess näst äldsta självständiga stat efter Etiopien. svenskar i Liberia där det svensk-amerikanska-liberianska företaget LAMCO bröt och forslades till kusten med järnväg och skeppades ut från Buchanan.

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A company map showing the route of the railway. The west end of the line was at Buchanan on the Atlantic coast, whilst Nimba was at the very eastern edge of Liberia, bordering the Ivory Coast and Guinea.

However all was not lost as world demand for iron ore saw companies taking a look at alternative sources for extraction and this including re-evaluating the deposits remaining in Liberia. The Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) is a defunct Liberian corporation that mined for iron ore in the Nimba range in Liberia during the second half of the twentieth century. The choice of Nimba for the concentrator and tailings management facility rather than Buchanan is a significant departure from the original LAMCO layout, though it was also proposed as a revised project in 1980. The reasons for this are as follows. LAMCO had its wash plant at Buchanan, which processed high grade ore by removing fines. The remaining 75% is shared equally with the Government of Liberia and LAMCO. 1960-1963: Construction of the huge project including Nimba, Railroad, Harbor and Maintenance works in Nimba and Buchanan.
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Buchanan is the port for the dormant railway to the iron ore mines at Nimba. Buchanan Renewable Energies, a firm based in Toronto, Canada that processes chips BUCHANAN, FREIGHT TRAFFIC. KM, REBBO, IN. KM, YEKEPA, OPERATION.

The line was virtually a straight shot from the coast to the iron ore facilities, running along a … Nimba 65% ore content, Tokadeh 40 - 55% ore content Buchanan has pelletising plant with 2.2 million ton capacity.
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Offerberg, Jan, 1927- (författare); Report on Lamco joint venture's geological investigations in Liberia between Nimba an Lower Buchanan along the Railroad

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The Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) is a defunct Liberian corporation that mined for iron ore in the Nimba range in Liberia during the second half of the twentieth century. Founded in 1955 by American and Swedish investors, the company established the first large-scale mining operation in Liberia following the discovery in the 1950s of the Nimba ore body by geologist Sandy Clarke.

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