Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a local company to explore for copper and it also signed another MoU with a Turkish company to explore for gold.
As per the MoU, the local company will explore for copper in the Dana region of the Kingdom’s south. The Turkish company will explore for gold in the Abu Khashiba region, also in the south.
Under the first memorandum, the Jordan Integrated Mining and Exploration Company will conduct a 16-month copper exploration of a 78-square-kilometer area outside of the Dana Nature Reserve, Minister of Energy Saleh Kharabsheh said.
Under the second memorandum, the Turkish Solvest Trade and Industry Limited Company will conduct a 14-month gold exploration in the Abu Khashiba Valley region of the Kingdom’s south.
According to the minister, the Turkish company’s exploration area is approximately 155 square kilometers.
This is the second collaboration with the Turkish company following a memorandum of understanding signed in April to explore for copper in the same region.
