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Possibly the first mining company in Liberia was The company’s mining rights were in 1901 transferred to the 'West African Gold Concessions, Inc.' which is in fact the first real indication that gold and, for instance, not diamonds were involved. Later the company name was changed to that of the 'Liberian Development Chartered Company'. (2) |
(1)This Liberian involvement aroused a storm of protest around the turn of
the century, culmunating in a group of citizens threatening the then
President Garretson W. Gibson,
Coleman's successor. (Source: Abayomi
Karnga, ‘History of Liberia’, 1926). However, Sir Harry Johnston reported that the Union Mining Company was completely Liberian owned, as was its predecessor, The Mining Company of Liberia. (Source: Sir Harry Johnston, 'Liberia', 1906). (2) In 1906 the company apparently had mining rights over the counties of Montserrado and Maryland, as well as general banking, railway, telegraph and otherwise throughout the country. (Source: Sir Harry Johnston, 'Liberia', 1906). |
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