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Algeria will manage to export 10,000 tons of feldspar produced by the Aïn Barbar mine in the commune of Seraïdi, in the wilaya of Annaba, in the year 2025, as part of a national strategy for the implementation of 26 mining projects. This was announced by the Minister of Energy and Mines, Mohamed Arkab.
During his working and inspection visit to the wilayas of El Tarf and Annaba, Mr. Arkab presided over the inauguration of the new unit. After receiving a presentation on this construction, the minister indicated that the State “has adopted a development strategy for the mining sector based on the realization of 26 mineral research and exploration projects, including that of the extraction and processing of feldspar in Ain Barbar in the commune of Seraïdi with an annual capacity of 90,000 tons and the export of 3,000 tons this year and 10,000 tons in 2025.”
This unit, “the first of its kind in Algeria”, has more than 3 million tonnes of reserves which will increase to 6 million tonnes by adding the reserves of the neighboring mine, added the minister, ensuring that Algeria will increase its annual production capacity of this mineral through the development of this mining activity.
The minister affirmed that “this material exploited in various industries including ceramics and glass was imported by Algeria which produces it today in a way to cover national needs, thus reducing the import bill and strengthening Algeria’s position on the world market of mining products which constitutes one of the priorities of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to build a solid national economy.”
The minister then went to the Didouche Mourad estate in the commune of Annaba where he inspected the project to build an administrative group for Sonelgaz subsidiaries, the work on which is nearing completion and which should be inaugurated on November 1.
This structure has five administrative buildings reserved for the management of gas and electricity distribution and transport operations, social works and occupational medicine, according to the explanations given on site to the minister who inaugurated two 60/220 kilovolt and 30/60 kilovolt electrical transformer stations at the Dhraa Errich urban center in the commune of Oued El Aneb.
In this regard, the same official declared on site that the commissioning of these two stations will improve the service and reduce the pressure on the other electrical transformer stations, particularly during this summer period, noting that the wilaya of Annaba has recorded a great development in terms of electrical coverage by having 1,700 megavars ready for distribution, of which only 30% are used, which means that the wilaya records a surplus in electrical energy.
At the Naftal Sidi Brahim site in the municipality of Annaba, the minister laid the foundation stone for projects to build a firefighting training school and the headquarters of the social and cultural affairs unit of the Naftal company and inspected the phosphate and nitrogen fertilizer complex of the Fertial company in the municipality of El Bouni.