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Separately, the SII says CBI owns rights to calcined-clay deposits in Togorme, North Tongu District, Volta Region, Ghana; this is a separate deposit location, not the stated Tema plant location.", "rights": "facts_only", "source": {"url": "https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SII/50039/cbi-ghanalc3", "name": "International Finance Corporation (externally supplied capture)", "origin": "snapshot", "checksum": "fb266cb152876c5874b400dc151c72697dbdbbda132d4f3b5e855981860d2914", "observed_at": "2026-11-04T19:17:39.293512+00:00", "revision_id": "8d96936f-9119-4037-a691-63de0eeb437c", "published_at": null}, "locator": "/html/body/div[3]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[5]/div/div/h3", "claim_id": "1f28e771-bca6-436b-8cac-6587fe09f5bc", "modality": "reported", "confidence": 0.9, "valid_from": null, "attribution": "International Finance Corporation (externally supplied capture)", "evidence_id": "7dbb3e31-78c9-4738-9356-03805402950e", "valid_until": null, "assertion_id": "f3dca9ac-9e5e-4227-baa3-75b44bc65ab4", "temporal_expression": "", "extraction_confidence": 0.9}, "financing_stage": {"value": "The IFC record displays Status: Hold, with Last Updated Date May 6, 2026, and lists \u201cApproved: Nov 24, 2025\u201d under Previous Events. 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The section titled \u201cIFC's Investment as Approved by the Board\u201d displays a US$20.0 million loan; the SII labels these investment figures indicative.", "rights": "facts_only", "source": {"url": "https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SII/50039/cbi-ghanalc3", "name": "International Finance Corporation (externally supplied capture)", "origin": "snapshot", "checksum": "fb266cb152876c5874b400dc151c72697dbdbbda132d4f3b5e855981860d2914", "observed_at": "2026-11-04T19:17:39.293512+00:00", "revision_id": "8d96936f-9119-4037-a691-63de0eeb437c", "published_at": null}, "locator": "/html/body/div[3]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/p", "claim_id": "989133d5-1d7d-447a-bde9-441fb5cd5433", "modality": "reported", "confidence": 0.9, "valid_from": null, "attribution": "International Finance Corporation (externally supplied capture)", "evidence_id": "0a52043b-6a5f-49ac-b898-0f643a841f97", "valid_until": null, "assertion_id": "4092cb88-c94e-4d28-926b-2373109bf7bc", "temporal_expression": "", "extraction_confidence": 0.9}}, "origin": "snapshot", "revision": 1, "timeline": [], "is_sample": false, "project_id": "c478097d-2c7f-43cf-9279-2152f86c7de1", "publication": {"local_only": false, "reviewed_at": "2026-11-05T02:20:50.909281+00:00", "indexability": "noindex", "buying_window": "unknown", "policy_version": "research-selected-basic-public-v1", "template_version": "dossier-v1", "public_projection": {"version": "reported-facts-public-projection-v1", "checksum": "509dca72f00f9cb13db066286120f008d7ce5c0de1b421d9a003b261b4e77f85", "excluded": [{"ref": "f_sector", "reason": "inferred_taxonomy_kept_in_separate_reviewed_metadata", "predicate": "sector"}, {"ref": "f_ecology", "reason": "inferred_taxonomy_kept_in_separate_reviewed_metadata", "predicate": "ecology"}], "facts_hash": "534c4a78379522dacbc398f13a129df6e2eb08c66967fb8633c499c4901f3597", "retained_refs": ["f_name", "f_country", "f_location", "f_scope", "f_date", "f_financing_amount", "f_financing_stage"], "candidate_hash": "496b28b855ff60d68c9f9938809e29e898833fe7ac781df53a9593004a23f24e", "metadata_proposal_hash": "68eae87c64ed5522968a407aea19c2f712b89a27051674c9c35a9839cb07940d", "unchanged_content_hash": "422a54bceb177d31c7bd6e1acaf0f7472a2ae1ef9f5a3f5f92418fdbcdf47b73"}}, "public_summary": "IFC\u2019s Summary of Investment Information identifies Continental Blue Investment Ghana Limited\u2019s LC3 cement project in Ghana. It locates the plant in Tema, Accra; the calcined-clay deposit rights it mentions in Togorme, North Tongu District, Volta Region are a separate location. The SII describes a limestone calcined-clay plant with stated capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year. It separately reports a recently completed grinding-capacity expansion from 0.6 to 1.4 million tonnes per year, but does not date its completion; neither figure establishes actual production. For asset classification, the IFC sector field says Cement and the description concerns LC3 production: cement_plant, in the industrial_process category.\n\nFinancing figures are not procurement evidence: the SII describes a proposed IFC A-loan of up to US$20 million and a total project cost of US$66.7 million; it also displays a US$20.0 million loan under \u201cIFC's Investment as Approved by the Board\u201d and labels investment figures indicative. 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