THE MINING SECTOR:

  The mineral wealth in Sudan consists of deposits of many metals for instance:

 

gold , chromium, manganese, gypsum, mica, talc, iron lead, uraium , zinc, copper, choaline, coabalt, granite, marble , nickel, silver and tin.

 

The Mining Sector’s strategies, Potentialities and Investment  Opportunities :

 

The Comprehensive National Strategy has specified its aims regarding this sector in the following points:

 

1.  To intensify the exploration operations and rehabilitate the available quarries and mines introducing advanced technology.

 

2.  To invest and utilize the discovered mineral deposits in some domestic industries.

 

3.  To increase production of chromium by three fold, mica by five fold, gypsum by ten fold, and increase gold production by rehabilitating the present mines and striking some new sites.

 

In order to realize these objectives, new investment horizons shall be created either by enterprising in new exploration operations or establishing new quarries and export the surplus, or providing some aiding services; in addition to the possibility of contributing into the rehabilitation works of the available projects.