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The mining stakes in Ethiopia are held by: The Ethiopian Mineral Development Share Company, a Government organization (EMDSC) (an amalgamation of earlier four Government enterprises) established in 2000 is engaged in all mining activities in the country; the Ezana Mining Development, functioning since 1993, a privately owned Ethiopian ...
MIDROC Ethiopia was established in 1994. In 2011 it made a profit of 1.3bn birr (US$70m). [4]MIDROC has major gold mining interests in Ethiopia [5] [6] and it is reported that MIDROC Gold Mine (a subsidiary of MIDROC Ethiopia) has paid the Ethiopian Government 100.1 million birr in royalties, the largest contribution of any mining company. [7]
Gold mining continues to be an important industry in this woreda, with the announcement 24 November 2009, that MIDROC Gold signed a 10-year agreement with the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy, for the extraction of almost 20.5 metric tons of gold from the Sakaro fields, three kilometers from the existing Lega Dembi Mines.
The Lega Dembi Mine is the largest gold mine in Ethiopia and is near Shakiso in Oromia Region. [1] [2] Lega Dembi has a yearly production of around 4,500 kg of gold and silver, and is owned by MIDROC. [3] Pollution from the mine has resulted in environmental conflict that has exacerbated other political and ethnic conflict in the region ...
It was reported that in the late 1980s, the mineral industry lacked importance given that it contributed less than 0.2 percent of Ethiopia's GDP. [57] Mining for gold is a key development sector in the country. Gold export, which was just US$5 million in 2001, has recorded a large increase to US$602 million in 2012.
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[3] by Melese Alemu served as the first Minister of Mining and Petroleum on 18 April 2018. [4] In August 2019, the Ministry launched a new national cadastral system, which ease mining approval and management. Mining companies interested mining project in Ethiopia can submit, process and pay their applications online on the Ethiopian cadastral ...
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) is a commodities exchange established April 2008 in Ethiopia. In Proclamation 2007-550, which created the ECX, its stated objective was "to ensure the development of an efficient modern trading system" that would "protect the rights and benefits of sellers, buyers, intermediaries, and the general public."