Simandou
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Simandou is the site of a large iron ore deposit in southeastern 
Guinea, in the province of Nzérékoré.
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Proposals are under way in 2007 to build a heavy duty standard gauge railway and deepwater water to permit the export of large tonnages of iron ore.
Simandou is very close - 30km - to the Liberian border, and an existing albeit possibly defunct IIRC standard gauge railway to the port of Buchanan. A heavy duty railway wholly within Guinean territory would be 700km long.
Simandou is near Diéké.
The mining company concerned is Rio Tinto Limited.
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