Tanganyika Concessions
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Tanganyika Concessions
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Tanganyika Concessions Limited was a British mining and railway company founded by the Scottish engineer and entrepreneur Robert Williams in 1899.
The purpose was to exploit minerals in Northern Rhodesia and in the Congo Free State.
Partly-owned subsidiaries included the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), which undertook mining in the Katanga portion of the copperbelt, and the Benguela railway, which provided a rail link across Angola to the Atlantic Ocean. Belgian banks eventually took over
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Former British mining and railway company operating in Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Concessions
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2024-01-20T19:42:58Z
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