At this site you can learn about all the information about Uganda Minerals, Minerals in Uganda, Ministry of Minerals and Land Resources, and how to do business in minerals in Uganda and other Land Resources.
Uganda is a country endowed with over 33 metallic and non-metallic known minerals. Some of the country’s minerals are being mined and others being explored.
They include:
- Copper
- Cobalt
- Tin
- Phosphates
- Vermiculite
- Diamond
- Gold
- Petroleum
- Columbite/Tantalite
- Kaolin
- Cobalt
- Limestone
- Chromite
- Magnetite
- Uranium
- Wolfram
- Iron ore
- Gypsum
- Beryllium
- Bismuth
- Chromium
- Lead
- Lithium
- Niobium-tantalum
- Glass/silica sand
- Feldspar
- Clays
- Marble
- Platinum group of minerals
- Salts
- Nickel
- Glass
- Sand
The department of Geological Surveys and Mines under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development caters for the mining industry in the country. Any interested investor goes to this department for possible licensing.
Using its network with the Department of Geological Surveys and Mines can guide a miner on the best areas of mineral occurrences and how to go about technical and legal issues related to tenants on an explorational land or an area on which a mining investor has got a mining lease or explorational