LAMCO - Liberian American Sweish Mining Company. Mined for iron ore in the Nimba range in Liberia. The ore body was discovered by geologist Sandy Clarke in the 1950s. In the 1960s a mining community was built in Yekepa, Nimba County. A standard gauge railroad approximately 250 km long was built, linking the mine in the north of the country, to the Buchanan shipping port. A Liberiazation policy was introduced to gradually phase out the non-Liberian staff. Operation stopped at the heights of the Liberian Civil War. Chief investors were the Swedish Grängesbergsbolaget and from USA the Bethlehem Steel Company.