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
Population In 1967, Minim contained 90 inhabitants, mostly from the Kaka ethnic group.Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua, ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, p.77. In the 2005 census, the settlement contained 432 people.
Economy
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 « Grands projets miniers : Le lent décollage… - Bauxite de Minim, Martap et Ngaoundal : Infrastructures, le goulot d’étranglement », PRS/MC, 19 February 2015 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.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 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 Canyon Resources
The metre gauge railway line and many of its bridges are being upgraded.
References
Bibliography & 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. Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua, ONAREST, Yaoundé, octobre 1974, 133 p.
External links Histoire de l’activité minière et géologique au Cameroun, Cadre d'appui et de promotion de l'artisanat minier, June 2013 Martap, on the Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC) website