Later this year, an independent company will begin inspecting the quantities and specifications of minerals exported by operators in the sector in Mozambique.

"What was happening was that from a national port a thousand tons of a mineral with a certain specification and price were declared as leaving the ship, but at the destination 1,500 tons of another mineral with a very high specification and price mysteriously arrived on the same ship," said the director-general of the National Mining Institute, Elias Daúde, in statements to Notícias.

The source said that an independent company that will supervise the sale of minerals extracted in Mozambique is in the process of being selected, and will start work soon.

He pointed out that the Mozambican state has been harmed to the tune of millions of dollars through under-invoicing practices used by firms in the mining sector, due to the inefficient control of the activity, especially in exports.

The taxes levied on companies, he continued, are based on the production declared by the companies and not on an independent assessment by the authorities.