[The Hon. Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, officially launched three (3) Mineral Sector Policies on Thursday, 9th May 2019 at the Bintumani Conference Hall in Freetown. The three (3) Mineral Sector Policies are the ‘Sierra Leone Minerals Policy’; ‘The Geo-data Management Policy of Sierra Leone’; and the ‘Artisanal Mining Policy’. You can read more about these policies and download them below:
This Minerals Policy has been prepared as part of series of legal, regulatory and institutional reforms introduced by the Government to ensure that Sierra Leone maximizes gains from its mineral resource endowments. These reforms include: the establishment of the National Minerals Agency (NMA) and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), the enactment of the Mines and Minerals Act 2009, the Public Financial Management Act 2016, the Extractive Industries Revenue Act 2018 and improvements in transparency and accountability mechanisms for the minerals sector. In furtherance of these reforms, the Core Minerals Policy of 2003 is now being replaced by this Sierra Leone Minerals Policy of 2018.
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