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Turkmenistan - Seeks to attract investors to mining industry

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Turkmenistan is interested in attracting investors to re-equip the mining industry, the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has said.

According to the report, there are more than 200 different fields of solid minerals in Turkmenistan, most of which are located in mountainous areas. "As for already explored deposits, the principal objective is to expand the list and product quality, to conduct the marketing research and to promote goods on the world market, to conduct the technical reequipping of the mining industry, to attract investors, including foreign ones to develop the perspective deposits."

Mineral resources are distributed unevenly throughout Turkmenistan.

Turkmen territory is rich in deposits of mineral salt, native sulfur, bentonite, quartz sand, kaolin and raw materials for the production of building materials required to meet the needs of enterprises of the national economic complex of the country in mineral raw materials.

Among them there are sand and gravel rocks necessary for the construction of roads, construction sand, clay raw material for the brick-tile, various limestone production, suitable for the manufacture of tiles, limestone and quartz sand for cement and glass production, etc.

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