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Liberia Resumes Iron Ore Exporting
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Photo 1 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comLiberia is becoming an iron ore exporter again. ArcelorMittal is investing $1.5 billion and creating some 500 jobs as full-scale operations begin in July 2011. -
Photo 2 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comThe first ore mined in Liberia in more than 20 years being loaded onto the Nord Voyager in Buchanan on June 11, 2011. -
Photo 3 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comFront-end loaders fill 36-ton wagons with iron ore. -
Photo 4 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comThe cargo ship transports 69,000 tons. -
Photo 5 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comLarge cranes hoist the train wagons on to the vessel. -
Photo 6 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comThe conveyor is being readied to move ore more efficiently from rail cars to ships at dock in Buchanan. -
Photo 7 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comThe Nord Voyager is making a 'test' shipment in June to insure that equipment and systems function properly before regular exports begin. -
Photo 8 of 16Credit:Renewed activity at the port is helping spur economic in Buchanan, Liberia's second largest city. -
Photo 9 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comA total of 195 wagons from the old stock have been certified as salvageable. More than 70 are in use as of mid-June. -
Photo 10 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comOre is brought to Buchanan from the mines on a 250-kilometer railway line ArcelorMittal has rehabilitated . -
Photo 11 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comThe rebuilt rail line and parallel service road pass through long stretches of dense bush where thousands of Liberian fled to escape the killing during the civil war between 1990 and 2004. -
Photo 12 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comMore than 100 bridges have been repaired or constructed along the route. -
Photo 13 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comOre is scraped from the mountain top at Tokadeh, 20 kilometers south of the companys operational center in Yekepa. ArcelorMittal is pledged to undertake environmental mitigation. -
Photo 14 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comProduction of iron ore began in April at Tokadeh, a mountain-side site 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Yekepa. -
Photo 15 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comAt the processing plant beside the rail line, the ore passes through crushing and screening facilities before being loaded onto train wagons for transport to Buchanan. -
Photo 16 of 16Credit: Tami Hultman/allAfrica.comAlong with mining infrastructure, ArcelorMittal has invested in housing and food facilities for employees, as well as a school and a hospital.
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