Published: November 3, 2026
MARGIBI COUNTY — Much of the professional and commercial value from Liberia’s mining and energy investments could stay outside the country’s business community unless qualified Liberian firms get real work on major projects, the head of a Liberian-owned consultancy that exhibited at last week’s Liberia International Mining and Energy Conference and Expo said.
Carlos E. Tingban, executive director of GeoMining & Environmental Consultancy Inc. and a former assistant minister, said Liberia’s resource ambitions should go beyond attracting foreign capital to opening the technical and commercial work around large investments to Liberian companies.
“Without meaningful opportunities for qualified Liberian companies, much of the professional and commercial value generated by resource development risks remaining outside the domestic business community,” Tingban said.
The company argues that local content must become actual commercial participation rather than remain an aspiration in policy documents, meaning Liberian-owned firms must be able to compete for contracts, build their institutional capacity and supply the technical services mining, petroleum and energy projects need.
GeoMining, which describes itself as 100 percent Liberian-owned, used its booth at the conference to present its services to investors and industry partners.
The second edition of the conference was held Oct. 28-29 at the Farmington Hotel under the theme “Transforming Liberia’s Economy: Driving Development Through Sustainable Mining and Energy Investment.” It brought together government officials, diplomats, investors, mining and energy companies, development partners and technical experts.
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