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Why it may take Kenya 20 years to fully benefit from its mineral wealth

Base Titanium, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Australia and UK-listed company Base Resources, is developing the Kwale Mineral Sands Project in Kwale County.

Construction at the site, which is about 50 kilometres south of Mombasa, was completed at the end of 2013 and the first bulk shipment of ilmenite — the most important element of titanium — sent to China in February this year.

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