Minim, Martap
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Cameroon
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Adamawa
| subdivision_type2 = Department
| subdivision_name2 = Vina
| subdivision_type3 = Commune
| subdivision_name3 = Martap
| population_as_of = 2005
| population_footnotes = Troisième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (3e RGPH, 2005), Bureau central des recensements et des études de population du Cameroun (BUCREP), 2010.
| population_total = 432
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Minim (or Minim II, or Menim) is a village in the commune of Martap, in the department of Vina, in the Adamawa Region, Cameroon. The village contains Cameroon's main source of bauxite.Marthe Effoudou, « Mines: Le potentiel de la bauxite camerounaise », Le Journal du Cameroun, 5 July 2012 [http://www.journalducameroun.com/article.php?aid=11711] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817200313/http://www.journalducameroun.com/article.php?aid=11711 |date=2016-08-17 }}
Population
In 1967, Minim contained 90 inhabitants, mostly from the Kaka ethnic group.[http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers08-01/02891.pdf Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua], ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, p.77. In the 2005 census, the settlement contained 432 people.
Economy
{{See also|Minim Martap mine}}
Along with Ngaoundal, Minim is part of a large project to mine the bauxite of the Adamawa Plateau.« Martap : Scènes de vies autour de la bauxite », Mutations, 16 January 2008 [http://www.cameroon-info.net/stories/0,21585,@,martap-scenes-de-vies-autour-de-la-bauxite.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617185918/http://www.cameroon-info.net/stories/0,21585,@,martap-scenes-de-vies-autour-de-la-bauxite.html |date=2016-06-17 }}« Grands projets miniers : Le lent décollage… - Bauxite de Minim, Martap et Ngaoundal : Infrastructures, le goulot d’étranglement », PRS/MC, 19 February 2015 [http://www.mines-cameroun.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=392&lang=fr] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807150952/http://www.mines-cameroun.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=392&lang=fr |date=2016-08-07 }} Covering an area of 1000 km2, the deposit represents an important component of the Adamawa plateau and the gentle slopes which surround it make it easy to access.[http://www.cameroonalumina.com/ExecutiveSummary-French.pdf Étude d'impact environnemental et social du projet d’exploitation des gisements de bauxite de Minim-Martap et Ngaoundal dans la Région de l'Adamaoua, République du Cameroun] (Executive summary, Cameroon Alumina)
Studies of feasibility and environmental impact were carried out and a mining development plan was completed in May 2016.« Le financement des infrastructures pour la Bauxite de Minim-Martap à prendre », Cameroon Tribune, 9 May 2016 [http://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96027%3A2016-05-09-00-40-36&catid=3%3Adossier-de-la-redaction&Itemid=5] Financing for the construction of a facility for refining the bauxite into aluminium and for transport infrastructure is still outstanding.« Grands projets miniers : Le lent décollage... - Bauxite de Minim, Martap et Ngaoundal : Infrastructures, le goulot d’étranglement », PRS-MC, 19 February 2015 [http://mines-cameroun.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=392&lang=fr] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807150952/http://www.mines-cameroun.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=392&lang=fr |date=2016-08-07 }} [https://www.canyonresources.com.au/minim-martap-project/ Canyon Resources]
The metre gauge railway line and many of its bridges are being upgraded.
References
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Bibliography
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Samuel-Martin Eno Belinga|fr|3=Samuel-Martin Eno Belinga|lt=S.-M. Eno Belinga}} & François Desthieux, « Histoire géologique de Minim-Martap et du Ngaoundal », Annales de la Faculté des Sciences du Cameroun 5, pp. 27–32
- Jean Boutrais (ed.), Peuples et cultures de l'Adamaoua (Cameroun) : actes du colloque de Ngaoundéré, du 14 au 16 janvier 1992, ORSTOM, Paris ; Ngaoundéré-Anthropos, 1993, 316 p. {{ISBN|2-7099-1167-1}}
- [http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers08-01/02891.pdf Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua], ONAREST, Yaoundé, octobre 1974, 133 p.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161027162003/http://capam.info/?q=fr%2Fhistoriqueminecameroun Histoire de l’activité minière et géologique au Cameroun], Cadre d'appui et de promotion de l'artisanat minier, June 2013
- [http://cvuc.cm/national/index.php/fr/carte-communale/region-de-ladamaoua/109-association/carte-administrative/adamaoua/vina/422-martap Martap], on the Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC) website