Sudan: Gold Production Reaches 64 Tonnes

Nov 24, 2014 | Sudan Tribune
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Sudan has announced that the production of gold from January through October amounted to 64 tonnes, up from 34 tonnes in 2013.

A local brings his gold for examination at a laboratory in the gold market in Khartoum (Photo: Reuters)

The ministry of mining had projected last October that gold production would reach 70 tonnes by year end.

Gold has become one of Sudan’s largest exports which partially compensated for the loss in oil revenues, which accounted for more than 50% of income until 2011 when South Sudan seceded, thus taking with it most of the country’s oil reserves.