Seduced by tales of fortune between overnight, have forced a life of comfort to live in Khartoum, weeks in the midst of the heat and snakes and bandits, looking for gold in the desert of Sudan. Tents jeweler Amer Tpeda in remote wilderness in very difficult circumstances, but he and his group succeeded in finding nearly two kilograms of gold worth about 94 thousand dollars, in just two weeks of exploration with metal detectors. This was enough to convince him to make the trip hard on two other occasions, to join the many others that hold out hope.
Said Tpeda (34 years), who works in the shop for gold jewelry owned by his family in Khartoum: «we sometimes get at night to somewhere where we do not find anyone.But by the fifth morning to start hearing alarm bells «Labib Labib» emitted by the metal detectors.
Once the morning to solve the region teeming with people walking around with these devices. And say to yourself: «Where did all these people? It's amazing ».
Tpeda one of the tens of thousands of Sudanese gold seekers, who are dangerous exploratory trips across the arid regions, driven by stories of great discoveries and the price exceeded the indices of 1476, reaching more dollars per ounce.
Due to higher gold prices over the past three years, and the receipt of exploration devices frequently to the country, rushed towards the thousands of Sudanese Nubian Desert in the north, which is believed to contain in its interior, a wealth of gold. Grams and sells gold prospectors about 90 Sudanese pounds (35 dollars), equivalent to pay a week in small businesses. But this figure does not represent anything new to those investors who do not hoard the tools of their work, with pay at least $ 6000 to buy a modern mineral exploration. The prospectors and others hired mechanical bulldozers to dig earth, or taking part owners of agricultural tractors to plow the desert.
The Minister of Mining of Sudan Gilani, Abdul Baki: «We now have the so-called gold fever, because everyone is looking for him, as was the case in America in the nineteenth century». It was estimated that there are 200 thousand gold seekers on a small scale, digging him in different areas of Sudan, forcing the government to think of incentives to discourage the sale of gold abroad and the establishment of cooperatives to support them. He pointed to smuggle more than 50 percent of this gold across the borders of Sudan other than the court to be sold in Dubai or Beirut.
Sudan is known as a source of gold since the days of the Pharaohs and the ancient Nubian kingdom, but the exploration on a small scale did not flourish only in the last few years. Khartoum has begun, which has focused for years on oil reserves to provide revenue, to intensify their efforts for the development of the gold sector in an attempt to diversify the economy and avoid the risks arising from the separation of oil-producing south. Minister Gilani said that his country signed a number of mining agreements, there are 128 companies Sudanese and foreign works in the gold sector of Sudan, was established this year, a company that provides services, exploration, extraction and laboratory tests.
He predicted that the country's production to 74 tons this year if calculated quantities abstracted by the researchers is the organizers. This will make Sudan's tenth largest gold producer in the world, and the third largest producer in Africa after a South Africa and Ghana.
Nubian Desert, about 500 kilometers northeast of Khartoum, attracts thousands of gold seekers. But it is also home to the wealth of archaeological dating to the time of the Nubian kingdom, one of the oldest civilizations in the Nile Valley. While not neighboring Egypt has attracted world attention to their impact, the Sudan, promising discoveries exploration is important because it is still limited. Scientists fear the effects and officials that blurs a vital part of its heritage as a result of looting of archaeological sites prospectors or damage.
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