Resumen de Ethiopia suspends exploration licences pending Chinese survey
"We have stopped receiving applications for prospecting and mineral exploration [rights] in respect of the southwest part [of the country]," Ato Sisay, director of the Department of Mineral Licencing and Administration at the Ministry of Mines, told IM.
Zambia is Africa's largest producer of copper and also hosts significant deposits of limestone in the country's central and eastern provinces, silica sand and feldspar at Kapiri Mposhi, as well as phosphate and dolomite.
Egypt is to build a new "phosphate industrial zone" representing an investment of Egyptian pound (EPounds ) 3.3bn ($461.5m*) in Aswan, it was announced in January.
