Imposing exorbitant fees on private mining

Sudan Events – Rehab Abdullah

The representative of the Federal Mining Coordination and the Dispute Resolution Committee in the Northern State, Muhammad Hamed, revealed the multiple fees imposed on private or so-called traditional mining.
Hamed told (Al-Ahdath) that fees are taken from private mining in three stages, noting that a fee is collected for one bag of stone, 2,500 pounds, and other fees are taken after flouring the bag “after the result” amounting to 1,000 pounds for each gram, and the waste is confiscated.
He criticized the taking of private mining waste for the benefit of waste companies without compensation for the producing metal, the owner of the waste, and it is processed and the extraction rate is 70% in favor of the companies, and the government’s percentage of it is 33%.
Hamid confirmed that the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company is defrauding miners with multiple fees and levies, and each item is allocated a fee.