Mining Exploration and Prospecting News and Reports

Outlines of the Geology of the Sudan: Geological setting, by Embassy of Sudan in China, 2003-05-08

Investment in the Mineral sector of Sudan by Sudan Embassy in South Africa
The attraction of Sudan as far as the mining industry in concerned, is the possibility of discovering large potential of high value materials, such as gold, copper, lead-zinc, silver, tin, tungsten and uranium. 

The Mining Sector by Embassy of the Republic of Sudan, Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia
The Sudan enjoys rich mineral ores such as Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Cobalt, Lead, Silicon, Mika, Chrome, Zinc, Gypsum and other several minerals yet to be utilized.

Gold in Sudan

History of Oil Exploration in Sudan
Historically, exploration for petroleum in Sudan started in 1950s before the country’s independence. It started when Italian company AGIP acquired a concession area along the Sudanese Red Sea coast in 1959.

Mining Projects in Sudan: Ministry of Investment

The Mineral Industry of Sudan by Philip M. Mobbs, U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook - 2000.

Public Showdown Exposes Widening Chasm in Sudan by Alex Ndegwa, The East African Standard (Nairobi). January 10, 2007
The historic signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) brokered by Kenya in January 9, 2005, in Nairobi, silenced the guns in one of the longest armed conflicts in the continent that spanned over two decades. But as the peace deal's second anniversary celebrations were marked in southern Sudan capital Juba on Tuesday, it was evident that the future of the accord stood on quick sand.

Scheme to rob S. Sudan of land and oil exposed by Mitch Odero, Sudan Mirror. May 30, 2007
A high handed scheme to rob South Sudan of its land and loot its oil has been exposed by the Government of South Sudan (GOSS). Oil producing areas within the territory of South
Sudan is systematically being annexed to North by Khartoum government to have an advantage in the exploitation of oil wealth.  

Disputes over oil fields in Southern Sudan: What it means for the CPA by John Agou Wuoi, Sudan Mirror - Oil Disputes
A Joint Executive Committee meeting of the parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) has ended but with no substantive agreement yet on the way of resolving a dispute over oil Block BA between a French oil company Total SA TOT (which signed agreement with then Government of Sudan in 1980) and UK’s White Nile Limited, (WNL).

War in Sudan? Not Where the Oil Wealth Flows by Jeffrey Gettleman. NYTimes, Khartoum, Sudan, October 24th, 2006  
Despite the image of Sudan as a land of cracked earth and starving people, the economy is booming, with little help from the West. Oil has turned it into one of the fastest growing economies in Africa — if not the world — emboldening the nation’s already belligerent government and giving it the wherewithal to resist Western demands to end the conflict in Darfur.

UBS urged to drop Chinese listing by Martin Plaut, Africa Editor BBC World Service, 2007/10/19
Human rights activists, including actress Mia Farrow and a number of Nobel Prize winners, are appealing to Swiss bank UBS to end its role in launching PetroChina on the Shanghai stock exchange.

State Rules: Oil companies and armed conflict in Sudan, by Luke A. Patey, SudanTribune, 18 July 2007.
The strategic behaviour of international oil companies in war-torn Sudan was overwhelmingly driven by political pressures from governments.                          


Commercial Laws of Sudan

National Petroleum Commission (NPC)
Since the discovery of oil in the South of Sudan, development and control over such has remained a difficult issue for some time, especially in relation to the conflict in South Sudan. Following the Sudan Interim National Constitution[41], Presidential Decree No. 37  (2005) was formulated concerning the establishment of the National Petroleum Commission (NPC). The Commission is primarily responsible for formulating policies and guidelines in relation to the development and management of the petroleum sector and to monitor the implementation of these policies to ensure that they "serve the best interest of the people of Sudan".

Investment Encouragement Act, 1999 Amended (2003)
Laws such as the Investment Encouragement Act have likely much facilitated the ability of the ruling Islamists "to privatize most of the State's infrastructural establishments and key
production units, including tanneries, textile factories, and railways."[40]