Govt to develop geological and mining information system

Guillaume Mananga, the capacity project coordinator of the mining sector (Precasem), recently published a shortlist of four firms and groups of European firms invited to subscribe for the recruitment of consultants for "the supervision of a geological and geochemical mapping program and the establishment of a geological and mining information system in Cameroon.”

Short-listed firms or groups are Consultores Ortega Garcia (Spain), Arethuse Geology Sarl (France) and BGS International & CGS (England) groups and IMC & IMC Motan Consulting (Germany).

These applicants have until November 4, 2014 to submit their tenders to Precasem in Yaounde.

The Precasem is funded by the World Bank, on its IDA branch.

Since January 2014, the project set up by the Cameroonian government leads operations "airborne geophysical survey" in six regions, operations that will result in a brief exploration of additional 160,000 km2 of Cameroonian territory, and the establishment of 13 new geological maps.