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manganese mining area at the Comilog in Moanda, Gabon

The manganese mining area at the Comilog in Moanda, Gabon on November 27, 2020. PHOTO | STEEVE JORDAN | AFP

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Moanda

Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws to rip out manganese and then dump the ore into trucks with a crash.

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