Liberia: Past and Present
The Liberia Mining Company was the first of four iron ore companies which produced and shipped such large quantities of iron ore that in the 1960s and 1970s Liberia became Africa's largest iron ore exporter and even the third on the world list of iron ore exporters. In 1958 followed a concession agreement with the National Iron Ore Company (NIOC) for the exploitation of the Mano river iron ...