{"id":50811,"date":"2025-07-01T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=50811"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:13:27","slug":"bill-to-regulate-precious-metals-and-gemstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/bill-to-regulate-precious-metals-and-gemstones\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to Regulate Precious Metals and Gemstones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of efforts to strengthen governance and regulate the minerals sector, the Ministry of Minerals and the Sudanese Standardization and Metrology Organization (SSMO) has announced a joint consensus on a bill to regulate precious metals and gemstones, in line with international standards and regulating import and export operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Minerals, Dr. Hind Siddig affirmed the ministry&#8217;s full mandate over all stages of mineral processing, praising the institutional cooperation with the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization, Dr. Rahba Saeed, stressed the importance of a modern Act to protect consumers and support the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Director General of Geological Research Authority, Geologist Ahmed Haroun, called for the act to be comprehensive of gold, silver, platinum, titanium, and precious, semi-precious, and manufactured stones, calling for the need to regulate certifications.<\/p>\n<p>Geologist Haroun revealed that a joint higher committee with relevant authorities is currently working to review and amend the Mineral Resources Development Act of 2025 to keep pace with the rapid developments in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of efforts to strengthen governance and regulate the minerals sector, the Ministry of Minerals and the Sudanese Standardization and Metrology Organization (SSMO) has announced a joint consensus on a bill to regulate precious metals and gemstones, in line with international standards and regulating import and export operations. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50813,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50811\/revisions\/50813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}