Australian billionaire mining magnate Ken Talbot and his board of directors are all declared dead after wreckage of their chartered plane was found in African jungle.Mr Talbot and 10 others, including senior executives and directors of Sundance Resources,
Australian billionaire mining magnate Ken Talbot and his board of directors are all declared dead after wreckage of their chartered plane was found in African jungle.
Mr Talbot and 10 others, including senior executives and directors of Sundance Resources, were on a flight from Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, to Yangadou in Republic of Congo to visit an iron ore mining site.
Cameroon government information minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the missing plane was discovered Monday afternoon in dense jungle 10km inside the border of the Republic of Congo, which is the smaller of the two Congo nations.
He said nine to 10 bodies had been recovered from the crash site.
The light aircraft disappeared on Saturday half an hour after it took off. Among the passengers were Sundance chairman Geoff Wedlock and chief executive Don Lewis.
Three other Australians were on board along with two French, an American and two Britons.
The Sundance executives had been in Cameroon to inspect the company's Mbalam project. Sundance has a 90% stake in Cameroon Iron Ore Company, which owns more than 1800 sq km of fields with estimated reserves of 2.2 million tons of mineral resources.
