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8 mm Halloween Video, 1972 (Lamco International School, Liberia)

Luckily, I found an old website, Our Liberia, which is dedicated to kids who attended the West African school in the 1970s. They were primarily the children of Swedish miners employed by Lamco, the Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company. The site's webmaster is a Gen-Xer named Heidi whose parents worked for LAMCO.

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LAMCO NIMBA, 1970s. Yekepa, at the foot of Mt. Nimba, was the site of the largest iron ore mining operation in the world. The Liberian American (Swedish) Minerals Company was the biggest revenue earner for Liberia from 1964 into the early 1980s.

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Full article: THE GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS?

The Liberian American–Swedish Minerals Company (LAMCO) operated in Liberia from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1980s. Resting on an association of …

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Mittal Phoenix Arises from Lamco Ashes, Liberia 2010

In the early 1960s, the Lamco mining company in Liberia, West Africa, built a standard gauge railway to take iron ore from the rich fields in the Nimba Mountains, on the border with Guinea, some 300km to the port of Buchanan for export. It's probably best known to British enthusiasts for the five Class 08 shunters it bought from BR, along ...

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LIBERIA: POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY HOW …

FOR MINING IN LIBERIA 10 two TAXES, PAYMENTS, AND REVENUE GENERATION 11 three CASE STUDIES ... (LAMCO) and Bong Mining Company (BMC). POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY footnotes i All monetary figures in this report are expressed in …

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Has ArcelorMittal Failed to Fully Deliver in Liberia?

In a recent address at the US-Africa Business Summit in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, President Joseph N. Boakai Sr. criticized ArcelorMittal-Liberia's management of the Yekepa region, highlighting the stark contrast between …

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Liberia gave villagers control over their forests.

Before Liberia descended into civil war in 1990, Nimba was home to LAMCO, a Swedish-U.S. iron-mining company that was one of Liberia's flagship foreign investments, bringing in a sizable chunk ...

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MINING-LIBERIA: Steel Town Blues For Yekepa

In Yekepa's heyday, the Liberian American Swedish Chemicals Company (LAMCO) ran the high-grade ore mine from the 1950s until Charles Taylor's rebels invaded in 1989. 'On the town's outskirts, jungle encroaches on remnants of that time - a vast art deco swimming pool, rusty trains, and the whitewashed skeletal remains of buildings …

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Grasshopper Educational: UPPLAND

In the late 1950s, a Liberian-American-Swedish company called LAMCO established mining operations in the remote highlands of Liberia. The arrival of this multinational firm spurred the design and construction of a sprawling modernist new town called Yekepa to house employees and their families. Today this new town is almost entirely abandoned ...

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The technopolitics of Swedish iron mining in Cold War …

This paper examines the iron mining company LAMCO in Liberia, dominated strategically and operationally by Swedish actors and interests, between the mid-1950s …

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Creation and operation of the Liberian-American …

Creation and operation of the Liberian-American Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) between the mid 1950's to the early 1960's. Advisors: Straussberger (Columbia), Jeppe Mulich (LSE) Program Office at …

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LAMCO...

LAMCO TIMELINE 1953 The Liberian-American-Minerals Company was given a 70 year concession for ore exploration. 1954 A Swedish group of companies were... Historical Preservation Society of Liberia · November 29, 2012 · ...

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The technopolitics of Swedish iron mining in Cold War Liberia…

This paper examines the iron mining company LAMCO in Liberia, dominated strategically and operationally by Swedish actors and interests, between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s. It argues that the creation of LAMCO must be understood in the context of the early Cold War and its international politics, and that the enterprise's subsequent ...

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THE GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS?

Abstract. The engagement of Swedish industry in the Liberian American–Swedish Minerals Company (LAMCO), which mined iron in Liberia between 1963 and 1989, was the largest Swedish commercial investment in …

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ArcelorMittal-Liberia Demonstrates Safe, Sustainable Mine …

Liberia West Africa: – The Liberian American-Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) corporation for decades mined iron ore in Nimba Mountain Range during the second half of the twentieth century. Founded in 1955 by American and Swedish investors, the company established the first large-scale mining operation in Liberia following the …

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"From the Pit to the Port". Navigating the Bong Mining Company site …

On the one hand, Killian Doherty's documentary Uppland deals with the gap between the image of LAMCO's mining town as a modernist settlement and the grievances of the Liberian population, protesting both the destructiveness of the mining operation and its eventual discontinuation.9 Meanwhile, Gregg Mitman analyzes the transformation ...

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Liberia gave villagers control over their forests.

Before Liberia descended into civil war in 1990, Nimba was home to LAMCO, a Swedish-U.S. iron-mining company that was one of Liberia's flagship foreign investments, bringing in a sizable chunk of the …

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Our Beloved Liberia, How We Look Now

Heidi: Great idea and quite a coincidence to find this Liberia site. Yekepa as a mining town came into being after my time with LAMCO. I worked as a geologist with the company, first a few weeks in Putu, in early 1956, then through to the northern spring of 1962 in Nimba. ... How nice to find something on the web about Lamco and Liberia. Me and ...

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Liberian American Swedish Mining Company

Liberian American Swedish Mining Company var ett liberianskt-amerikanskt-svenskt gruvföretag som bröt järnmalm i norra Liberia vid Nimbamassivet.

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ArcelorMittal Demonstrates Safe, Sustainable Mine for …

Emotional Farewell for CEO Jozephus 'Joep' Coenen -ArcelorMittal Liberia Sees Off Rarely Productive Leader; Kunkun Care Foundation Takes Empowerment Programs to River Gee; Thesis Defense Takes Center Stage at UL- Sawyer College -Dr. Gray: No Thesis Defense, No Graduation

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More GE locomotives delivered to Liberia

ARCELORMITTAL Liberia (AML) took delivery last month of six additional ES44AC locomotives from GE, which will supplement the existing fleet of three GE units and enable the operation of 140-wagon trains on the 243km line linking the Tokadeh iron-ore mine with the port of Buchanan. ... The former Lamco railway ceased operating in …

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Open Pit Mining In Mountainous Terrain

LAMCO's 10.5 million metric tons per year high-grade iron mine in the Nimba Range in tropical Liberia is probably one of the most extreme of these exceptions (Fig. 1). At …

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Railways in Liberia

Mining resumed in 2014, providing a regular traffic source for the railway, but this ceased in 2016 when both mine and railway closed. In 2022, the Liberian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nimba Iron Ore Mining Project, located in Guinea, which would give the company access to Buchanan via the former Lamco Railway.

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Liberia: Yekepa to Buchanan Railway Under Threat from …

The lines were built principally to transport iron ore. By 2010, only the Bong mine railway was operational but the Lamco Railway was rebuilt by ArcelorMittal and put back into service in 2011 as far as Tokadeh, Nimba County, allowing export of iron ore from the company's mine on the Guinean border via the Port of Buchanan. ... ArcelorMittal ...

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The ruins of a mining economy

Iron ore mining was a central pillar of Liberia's post-World War 2 economy. Foreign mining giants like LAMCO, backed by the Liberian governments of William Tubman and then William Tolbert, rapaciously …

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The ruins of a mining economy

Around the 23-minute mark in the short film, Uppland, an unidentified voice speaks over a series of historical images of Yekepa, Liberia.Male and American, the speaker is presumably a former …

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Discover Nimba County

Moreover, Mount Nimba provides an educational journey through Liberia's mining history, as it was once a site for LAMCO, the Liberian-American Swedish Mining Company. East Nimba Nature Reserve, established in 2003, protects 11,500 hectares of the Mount Nimba Range on Liberia's side. Two paved roads leading up the mountain were built in the ...

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Lamco Railroad, Liberia

Hi all, Since my days of volunteering on the class 126 at Bo'ness I've always been fascinated by the mystery of what became of the former E&G Swindons which were sold to the Lamco Railroad and exported to Liberia along with some class 08's, what happened to them during the civil war which tore the country apart has been a mystery …

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Hike Mount Nimba Reserve in Liberia: an …

This part of the Mt. Nimba massif used to be even taller before the Liberian American (Swedish) Minerals Company (LAMCO) carved it up in the 60's and 70's. Back then it was the largest iron ore mining site in …

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