Mining industry of the Central African Republic Wikipedia
The Central African Republic's mineral resource endowment includes copper, diamond, gold, graphite, ilmenite, iron ore, kaolin, kyanite, lignite, limestone, manganese, monazite, quartz, rutile, salt, tin, and uranium. Of these commodities, only diamond and gold were produced in 2006 subsistence farming was the mainstay of the economy. In 2006 the World Trade Organization estimated that the mining sector accounted for about 7% of the gr