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Article: Rehabilitation can pay.
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- Mining Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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On the Kenya coast the Bamburi Portland Cement Company has been extracting Pleistocene coral limestone and Jurassic shale as the raw materials for the manufacture of cement since 1954. During the process, vast tracts of land have been strip-mined and laid to waste. In 1970 the company, alarmed by the size of its growing quarries, embarked on a rehabilitation project and employed Dr Rene Haller to run it. The project is now a financially independent operation with Dr Haller as the managing director.
The Bamburi cement factory, located 12 km north of Mombasa Island, produces 1.2 Mt/y and for each tonne of cement approximately 1.5 t of raw materials have to be ...