The Minerals Industry of Mozambique

Abstract

Mozambique’s mineral industry is one of the smallest in the SADCC, due more to neglect during the five decades of Portuguese colonialism than to a lack of resources. From independence in 1975 the new Frelimo government made rapid progress in mineral exploration and was at the point of a major expansion in exploitation when, from 1981, the South - African regime stepped up and intensified the destabilization of Mozambique