A rich and almost unexploited subsoil and a mining industry to be organized
The Kongo Central has always been known as an agricultural province and yet its subsoil has nothing to envy to the other provinces of the Country.The Kongo Central has for main mining resources; gold, oil, sand, phosphate, bauxite, copper, manganese…
The Province’s mining potential
A/ Minerals
The Kongo region is possesses with immeasurable industrial minerals and construction materials of mineral origin:
– Brick clays;
– Limestones (the most important and most materials used in construction and in the industry of the lime and the cements).
A reserve estimated at several tens of billions of tons. Therefore, 80% of the country’s cement is produced in Central Kongo in the 4 functional production factories.
– Sands factories: Documented reserve to 10 million tons The marbles: estimated reserve to 500 000m³;
Bauxite: Proven reserves of 100 to 150 million tons.
– Sandstones, quartzites, chalk, alluvial gravels, laterites, basalts, gypsum, marbles, granite, steatite etc.
B/ Precious stones
The stratigraphic composition (BED-ROCK) of the Mayombe basin area shows evidence of gold in the northwest and southeast.
Cooperatives and other companies active in the area are engaged in alluvial gold and diamond mining in the Mayombe region.
