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The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum ( Amharic: የማዕድንና ነዳጅ ሚኒስቴር) is the Ethiopian government department responsible for management of mining and petroleum sector in Ethiopia. It was established in 2018 under Proclamation No 1097/2018 and Melese Alemu served as the first Minister of the position. In 2020, Takele Uma ...
Mining in Ethiopia. Microcline from the Kenticha mine, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Mining is important to the economy of Ethiopia as a diversification from agriculture. Currently, mining comprises only 1% of GDP. Gold, gemstones (diamonds and sapphires), and industrial minerals are important commodities for the country's export-oriented growth ...
The mine is located in Oromia state, 600 km south of Addis Ababa. It is mined by Ethiopian Minerals, Petroleum and Bio Fuel Corporation, and the products mainly exported to China. [3] Kenticha was mined for tantalum from 1990-2017. [5] Peak production from the mine was 90-95 tons of tantalum concentrate per year, valued at $20 million dollars/year.
Farmer's field in Ethiopia. The problem of land reform in Ethiopia has hampered that country's economic development throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Attempts to modernize land ownership by giving title either to the peasants who till the soil, or to large-scale farming programs, have been tried under imperial rulers like Emperor Haile Selassie, and under Marxist regimes like the ...
Lega Dembi mine is located in Oromia Regional State, Guji Zone, about 500km south of Addis Ababa. Lega Dembi is part of the Adola gold deposit, and was discovered in the 1930s. The mine was developed by the Ethiopian empire with forced labor and penal servitude. At this time, a garrison of 900 soldiers provided security for the mine; displaced ...
The first two sites in Ethiopia added to the list were the Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela, and the Simien National Park, both at the Second Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C., in 1978. [4] The most recent sites listed were the Gedeo Cultural Landscape and Bale Mountains National Park, in 2023. [3]
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property 's metes-and-bounds of a country. [1] [2] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map . In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to define the dimensions and location of land ...
The Ministry of Mineral Resources (MMR) in Sierra Leone is responsible for the management of minerals in accordance with the Mines and Minerals Act 2009. [1] Concessions for industrial mining (exploration and large-scale mining) is managed by the Mining Cadastre Office (MCO) in Freetown, while all artisanal mining licenses are managed by the ...