{"id":12771,"date":"2014-02-26T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-exports-minerals-worth-us-196-3-million\/"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:00:17","slug":"rwanda-exports-minerals-worth-us-196-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-exports-minerals-worth-us-196-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Exports Minerals Worth US$196.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{Cassiterite is one of Rwanda’s untapped minerals and contributed US$50.5mn in 2013 through exports.}<\/p>\n

{{Rwanda’s mineral exports have increased by 72% from 2012, with coltan alone contributing to US$121.3mn worth of exports}}<\/p>\n

Latest figures provided by the government show that the country earned US$196.3mn in Q1 to Q3 of 2013, showing an increase of 72% from 2012.<\/p>\n

Singaporean research firm Global Reports also pointed to an increase in exports in 2013.<\/p>\n

“Coltan went up by 161%, wolfram by 7% and cassiterite rose by 13%,\u201d the firm said.<\/p>\n

According to its report, Data Mining in Africa Country Investment Guide 2014, these minerals have also contributed to an increase in exports with wolfram bringing in US$24mn and cassiterite US$50.5mn. <\/p>\n

Coltan alone contributed US$121.3mn, reportedly benefitting from an increase in price per kilogram, the company said.<\/p>\n

Global Reports stated that there are plenty of untapped minerals in Rwanda. <\/p>\n

It is one of the top sub-Saharan nations with an abundant supply of minerals like cassiserite, columbite-tantalite (coltan) and wolfram, among others.<\/p>\n

If exported competently, these minerals can bring in more revenue, added the report.<\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s main minerals are predominantly mined and traded within the country.<\/p>\n

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{Cassiterite is one of Rwanda’s untapped minerals and contributed US$50.5mn in 2013 through exports.} {{Rwanda’s mineral exports have increased by 72% from 2012, with coltan alone contributing to US$121.3mn worth of exports}} Latest figures provided by the government show that the country earned US$196.3mn in Q1 to Q3 of 2013, showing an increase of 72% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[2298],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-kwezi-patrick"],"bylines":[{"id":2298,"name":"Kwezi Patrick","slug":"kwezi-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2298,"name":"Kwezi Patrick","slug":"kwezi-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050577,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12771.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}