DEVELOPMENT NATURAL RESOURCES RWANDA
The territory of Rwanda is the most promising for gold, rare metals, productive organic silts. GOLD. On the territory of Rwanda there are two gold-mining regions — Nyungwe and Miyove, which produced 7 tons and 2.5 tons of gold, respectively. Within the Miyove ore region there are three small deposits Karenda, Baradega and Masogwe, mined from the surface to a depth of about 60 m. Currently, ore and placer gold is mined by local prospectors. Gold ore objects are associated with quartz veins and streak-vein zones lying in clay shales or at the contact of shales with sandstones. In addition, there are poor ore bodies of high thickness (up to 60 m) belonging to zones of disturbed rocks, fractured, with complicated fine folding, intensely ironed and including quartz veins. RARE METALS. In Rwanda there are small deposits of tin, wolframite and columbite-tantalite ores associated with small bodies of alkaline granites and pegmatites formed in the Upper Riphean. Rare-metal promising areas corresponding in scale to ore regions: Rutongo (SnO2), Rwinkwavu (SnO2), Gatumba (SnO2), Musha-Ntunga (SnO2), Lutsiro (SnO2, WO3), Nyakabingo (WO3), Gifurwe (WO3), Bugarama (WO3) and a number of small sites where ore minerals were mined. On the territory of Rwanda, cassiterite, wolframite, columbite and tantalite can be successfully mined. Sapropel – bottom silts of reservoirs and swamps of organic origin, formed at least 5-20 thousand years ago without access to oxygen. Promising areas for prospecting for evaluation are areas of the lake Rweru etc. From these raw materials we produce organic natural fertilizers, soil mixtures and soil-formers, potassium and sodium humates, recultivants in liquid, loose, granular, tablet form, as well as therapeutic mud and cosmetics.