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Phosphates dominate the Senegalese mining industry and exports are a major foreign currency earner.
After a period of declining production due to financial, supply, and production problems at the two main producers, the Government of Senegal has undertaken a program to restructure the sector. As a result, the larger mining company CSPT was merged with the chemical company ICS in 1996, and earlier this year the smaller producer, SSPT, was fully privatized and sold to the Spanish company Tolsa. ICS has ambitious plans to expand and there are numerous opportunities for U.S. heavy equipment and mining equipment producers. TDA has recently signed a grant with ICS for a feasibility study on the expansion. Phosphates dominate the Senegalese mining industry.