Ali El Melouky, the head of mining at the Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Sustainable Development and deputy minister of Energy, said that the mining sector currently accounts for 10% of the total income of the kingdom. “With the application of a strategy for developing the sector, we aim to take the share of the mining sector to about 15% of the total national income by 2025,” he added. He noted that Morocco’s production of minerals was estimated to be 36m tonnes last year, as crude phosphates accounted for 90% of the kingdom’s total production, as total phosphates production reached nearly 32m tonnes last year. The kingdom exports phosphates as a crude material, in addition to phosphoric acid and fertilisers. The kingdom of Morocco launched a strategy to develop its resources from the mining field in 2009, with a cost estimated to be DH 200bn, an equivalent of $20bn.

Source: Daily News Egypt November 27, 2018 21:22 UTC