Xinhua News Agency Accra, January 29 (Reporter Xu Zheng) Freetown News: On the 29th, the first ship of iron ore from the Sierra Leone New Tangkerili Iron Ore Project set sail from the country's Peper Port to China. . This is the first shipment since the project was launched.
The New Tangkerili Iron Ore Project is invested and operated by Sierra Leone Kingho Investment Co., Ltd. and was officially launched on September 23, 2020.
According to Zhao Ting, the person in charge of the company, the Xintangkelili Iron Mine covers a total area of 408 square kilometers and has a resource volume of approximately 13.7 billion tons. The project is equipped with a complete railway and port logistics and transportation system.
On January 26, in the Port of Pepper, Sierra Leone, an ocean-going ship was loading New Tangkeri iron ore, waiting to be shipped to China. (Published by Xinhua News Agency, photo provided by Sierra Leone Kingho Investment Co., Ltd.)
At present, the entire upstream, mid-stream and downstream chain of raw ore mining, processing, shipment and sales in the first phase of the project has been connected. In the future, the second phase of raw magnetite beneficiation will be launched as planned. Plant construction work, and plans to build a steel industrial park integrating mining, dressing and smelting in the third phase.
Zhao Ting said that the New Tangkerili Iron Ore Project not only injects impetus into the development of Sierra Leone's national mining and steel industry, but also assists the development of China's steel industry and enhances the friendship between China and Sierra Leone.