Limestone and marble deposits across Moroto and Napak are attracting renewed interest from cement producers and construction suppliers, driven by infrastructure demand in Uganda and neighbouring markets.
Industrial minerals rarely make headlines the way gold does, but they employ steadily and they anchor downstream manufacturing. For Karamoja, historically the region with the weakest formal employment base in the country, that matters.
Land first, quarry second
District leaders have been consistent: agreements over communal land, grazing routes and compensation must be settled before extraction scales. Where that sequence has been reversed elsewhere in Uganda, the result has been years of unresolved grievance.
UMT will continue to report on how compensation is calculated and whether local labour is hired beyond the construction phase.