In all likelihood, the action plan (2020-2024) initiated by the public authorities with a view to revitalizing the mining sector and enabling it to make significant progress, national growth is beginning to bear fruit.
We can therefore say, without too much exaggeration, that it is through mining potential that Algeria will emancipate itself, slowly but surely, from its dependence on hydrocarbons, and that is indeed in the year 2024 , who saw the project of developing national mining mapping, that this action plan goes beyond the purely theoretical and virtual framework to transform itself into a concrete reality which will do good for the State coffers.
First of all, there is the Gara Djebilet mining megaproject, located in the wilaya of Tindouf, which, once operational, will allow the Algerian steel industry to flourish and develop further. We can also cite the integrated phosphate project, whose work, carried out by Sonatrach and Sonarem, will allow the opening of the Blad El Hebda mine and that of the phosphate chemical transformation site in Oued Keberit, respectively in the wilayas of Tébessa and Souk Ahras.
This is because Algeria has reserves of rare earths, the extent of which no one, to date, suspects. These rare earths were even the subject, recently, of a study day at the University of Oran, where it was affirmed that they were among the most important in the world, s ‘resembling sites as far as the eye can see and listing several metals “with electromagnetic properties”, notably lanthanides, scandium and yttrium, essential, by the way, in the construction of new technologies, such as batteries for electric vehicles and or again smartphones.
