The largest mining project in Béjaïa will launch.. Expert reveals the duration of exploitation and expected economic impact

This month, the exploitation of the zinc and lead mine in Wadi Amizour in Béjaïa will begin, with an estimated stock of 34 million tons available for exploitation, including 170,000 tons of zinc and 30,000 tons of lead, making the project highly valuable in international markets, according to Professor Malik Ould Hamou, director of the Mining Engineering Laboratory and consultant in the mining field. Ould Hamou explained in his talk on the program 'Guest of the Day' on Algeria's third radio channel that the Wadi Amizour mine is one of the most important deposits globally, ranking approximately twelfth in the world, and is characterized by underground exploitation, where raw blocks are extracted before being transported to a plant for mineral processing and raising the concentration to about 60% zinc or...