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...Bomi & Bong. Americans are exporting 2,000,000 tons of iron ore a year from mines in the Bomi Hills, and the West Germans have a $90 million iron-ore project under way in the Bong Mountains. But even larger than these-larger, in fact, than any other private venture in Africa on which work is already under way-is a $200 million Swedish-American project to mine the Nimba range. To get test-drilling equipment in, men had to head-carry 90 tons of materials up eight miles of mountain trails through dense forests of mahogany and ironwood. When...
After wartime service in Africa, ex-Lieut. Colonel Lansdell K. Christie heard about Liberia's "Devil Mountain," a rich lode of iron ore in the Bomi Hills. Business-wise Christie, who had made a small fortune operating a barge line in New York, went back to Liberia after he was demobilized. He wangled a concession from the Liberian government to mine the mountain area, where ore assayed 68% iron (average in the Mesabi Range...
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