SNIM mine
There in Nouadhibou, Oumar, a friend and a great person takes charge of all ins and outs that will make our stay in Zouerate possible. There is 18 hours of space between us and our destiny - an open sky mine, the most important mauritanian mining site (Societé Nationale Industrielle et Minière - SNIM).
Before anything else will will have to be scrutinized by the Big Boss, whose approval we need to be able to enter inside the mine.
First we visit the mine's power plant.
All that thanks, partly, to its chief, Mr Yacoub Ould Salem.
Later we wisited the iron ore's mine - the most important mauritanian industry.
We went around the mine, except for the extraction zone.
Here with Hadj Fall and the driver after the visit in the mine.
What is left behind - mountains of rubble.