Mining industry of Angola Wikipedia
Once a major export, iron ore was no longer being mined in Angola by the late 1980s, because of atttendant security and transportation problems. From the mid1950s to 1975, iron ore was mined in Malanje, Bié Province, Huambo, and Huíla provinces, and production reached an average of million tons per year between 1970 and 1974.
