Local development of affordable lime in southern Africa

Mitchell, C.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5911-5668; Inglethorpe, S.D.J.; Evans, E.J.. 1998 Local development of affordable lime in southern Africa. In: 2nd Southern African Minerals conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 Oct 1998. (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

In many less developed countries, especially in southern Africa, there is a shortage of locally available, low-cost lime. This has serious implications, especially for farming where insufficient application of agricultural lime can lead to soil acidification, with associated aluminium / manganese toxicity and poor crop yields. As part of the UK Government’s programme of technical aid to developing countries, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has recently carried out a project ‘Local development of affordable lime in southern Africa’, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). The objective was to encourage lime production by matching suitable carbonate resources with appropriate production technology to provide a method for the establishment of local production sites. The project focused on Zambia, where there are widespread resources of limestone potentially suitable for use as aglime, but consumption of aglime is low due to poor local availability and high costs of transportation. Recommendations arising from the project for the small-scale production of lime involve the use of contract extraction, manual crushing and mechanical grinding. Trials showed that effective milling could be successfully accomplished using a Zambian-built hammer mill.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Paper)
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Economic Minerals
Additional Keywords:	Africa, Zambia, Lime production
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	20 Jan 2010 08:28 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8978

Item Type:

Publication - Conference Item (Paper)

Programmes:

BGS Programmes > Economic Minerals

Additional Keywords:

Africa, Zambia, Lime production

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

20 Jan 2010 08:28 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8978