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Sudan's gold production reaches 22.3 tons in Q1

Xinhua, June 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Sudan's gold production during the first quarter this year reached 22.3 tons worth of 903.15 million U.S. dollars, Sudan's Minerals Minister Ahmed Mohamed Sadiq Al-Karuri announced Tuesday.

The minister said the designing phase of an integrated laboratories project to indigenize gold lab testing has been completed with participation of foreign experts.

The Sudanese government had previously anticipated the country's gold production to reach 100 tons in 2016, positioning Sudan as the second gold producing country in Africa and the ninth worldwide.

In February earlier this year, the United States drafted and introduced a resolution to the United Nations Security Council demanding sanctions be imposed on gold exports produced in Sudan.

However, the council postponed its examination of the drafted resolution. Endit