Title: Iraq: Mining, Minerals and Fuel Resources
Headings: Iraq: Mining, Minerals and Fuel Resources
Iraq: Mining, Minerals and Fuel Resources
Topics Covered
Welcome to Iraq
Overview of Resources
Industrial Minerals
Metals
Fossil Fuels
Investment
Sources

Content: In 2010, companies were invited by the MIM to invest in the extraction and concentration of these deposits in collaboration with the General Company for Phosphates. Silica sand deposits, at Iraq’s Al-Anbar Governorate, had the capacity to produce 150,000 t/yr at a cost of $4 to $6 million. The MIM in 2010 invited companies to invest in the mining of these silica deposits. In 2010, 153,000 Mt of ammonia and 210,000 t of urea were produced by Iraq’s State Company for Fertilizers. Companies were invited to invest in three newly constructed urea plants located in the Governorates of Nineveh, Basrah and Al-Anbar. Metals
In 2010, a memorandum was signed by the MIM with STX Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. of the Republic of Korea along with an unnamed Turkish partner in order to redevelop the Iraq’s Iron and Steel State Co. steel complex at Khawr az Zubayr in the Basrah Governorate. Through this project, the country had plans of producing 1.2 Mt/yr of iron bar, 1.2 Mt/yr of hot-rolled products and 600,000 Mt/yr of section steel. Iraq has a number of significant diamond and gold reserves and the country hopes to increase its production of gold. The map of Iraq. Image Credit: