The project, dubbed the Billion Dollar Map, "will unlock the true worth of Africa's mineral endowment," Tom Butler, mining specialist at the Bank's private finance arm, the International Finance Corp., said Wednesday.
Speaking in Cape Town, South Africa, Butler said most of Africa's subsoil resources have not been surveyed.
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