Guinea Starts Iron Exports From World’s Top Untapped Deposit

Guinea has started shipping iron ore from Simandou, the site of the world’s largest reserve of the mineral.

“Simandou must be for us what oil was for the Gulf countries,” Djiba Diakite, chief of staff at Guinea’s presidency, said at a ceremony to mark the beginning of exports. “The commissioning of the Simandou integrated mining and infrastructure project is a historic day for the people of Guinea, who have waited for this moment for decades.”