The tiny West African country of Gambia has discovered commercially-exploitable deposits of uranium and other rare minerals, President Yahya Jammeh said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Jammeh said in an address on state television to celebrate the Muslim New Year that his government had also detected titanium, silicon and iron reserves. "But the biggest discovery is the discovery of uranium in the Gambia," he said. "These minerals I have talked about, we are 100 pct certain that they are in this country and can be exploited." International uranium prices have soared in recent months, driven by renewed global interest in nuclear power as governments seek to meet carbon emissions limits under the Kyoto agreement and combat climate change. The West African state of Niger is one of the world's largest exporters of uranium and the element is found in many other countries in the region.
