Unexploited Resources

GDP: $9.77 billion Resources: Phosphates, kaolin,uranium

Senegal

GDP: $15.64 billion Resources: Phosphates, iron ore

Guinea Bissau

GDP: $901.4 m Resources: Phosphates, bauxite,unexploited deposits of petroleum

Burkina Faso

GDP: $14.51 bResources: Phosphates, manganese, gold, copper, zinc, silver

Ivory Coast

GDP: $24.3 b Resources: Petroleum, natural gas,diamonds, copper

Ghana

GDP: $ 41.2 b Resources: Petroleum, gold 

Equatorial Guinea

GDP: $1.27bResources: Petroleum, unexploited reserves of gold, uranium, titanium 

Chad

GDP: $9.29b Resources: Petroleum (unexploited butexploration under way), uranium