Mining in Sierra Leone: An Overview of the Current Legal Framework
Publisher: Herbert Smith Freehills
Author(s): Yann Alix
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a resource-rich country, unfortunately known for its 'conflict' or 'blood' diamonds used by the rebellion during the 1991-2002 civil war. However, its fertile soil also contains iron ore, rutile, bauxite and gold and its mining sector was relatively advanced and mechanised before industrial large-scale mining ceased in 1995 due to the civil war.
The Sierra Leonean mining sector has undergone a number of reforms over the past decades and last few years.