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Claims to establish a body to the development of natural minerals
On: Saturday 31/03/2012 7:54
Baghdad / term follow-up
called for a number of experts to establish a national body for the development of natural minerals related to the Ministry of Oil. The expert geologist and member of the Iraqi Center for minerals and energy systems of non-oil Mohamed Al Jaber, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn): Iraq needs to develop its natural resources of minerals rather than through the Ministry of Industry Foundation, which turned into a heavy
But through the formation of a supreme body of national development of natural minerals directly related to the oil ministry.
added Al Jaber: that Iraq is based on outdated information on the subject of reserves of minerals and there is no update or actually benefited in terms of natural minerals and activated in order to become one of the most important economic resources of the country which correspond to the oil resources.
He pointed out that Iraq has reserves of minerals much untapped, such as stone Aledumlat which spreads in Anbar, Muthanna has reserves of 330 metric tons, and gypsum, which is spread in the Ninewa and Salah Al-Din and Anbar, Wasit 130 tons metric clay, kaolin, which is spread in the Western Desert 1200 metric tons, and rocks of iron sediment which spread also Western Sahara, the reserves who did not take advantage of 6 metric tons.
to that, said the expert geological Bahaa Yassin that Iraq does not contain a geological survey on its holdings of reserves in the metal because of the distribution of powers of the sites that contain metals between the ministries of oil and industry. "
said Yassin that Iraq does not have a clear policy for the development of maps and sites that contain minerals, and the loss of educational support to the Ministry of Education in regards to the development of energy education and the provision of laboratory Scout specialized.
He said that the formation of a supreme body specializes in developing resources metals is very important but it needs to legislation and to provide legal cover with a view to the development of strategic projects needed by Iraq in the next phase for the distribution of imports of Finance. "
, said the academic in the Faculty of Science at the University of Baghdad, Kamal Sabri's (Rn) that geological mapping and prospecting for sites new is supposed to start with the Iraqi government and the creation of global markets for the export of imports of minerals such as phosphate, aluminum and clay Alkkawin and other important resources, but this did not happen for the loss of Iraq, a specialized body following the developments. "
and added that "there is a need to create a new database, a digital to organize geographic information for Iraq and the provision of programs of a new technique to discover developments in the mineral resources of Iraq. "
He said, "Iraq does not have the correct information and accurate statistics of resources and how to provide laboratories and modern equipment to extract optimally without any losses in the production process and then export."
The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, the government completed the high-level plan to develop the production of minerals such as phosphates and fertilizers.
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