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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 ...
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 Ethiopian Mapping Agency, originally known as the Ethiopian Mapping and Geography Institute, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is the official organization responsible for mapping, surveying and remote sensing activities in Ethiopia. The organization was established in 1954 under the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I as a department in the ...
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. The Lega Dembi Mine is the largest gold mine in Ethiopia and is near Shakiso in Oromia Region. [1][2] Lega Dembi has a yearly production of around 4,500 kg of gold and silver, and is owned by MIDROC. [3] Pollution from the mine has resulted in environmental conflict that has exacerbated other political and ethnic conflict in ...
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.
The term R&D covers three activities: basic research, applied research and experimental development. In Ethiopia, the first national survey of R&D was undertaken by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2009. In 2013 STIC was mandated to conduct this survey and also conducted the second national survey of R&D in 2014.