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He added that the King-
dom is filled with mineral re-
sources in the Al-Dara region
which extends from Al-Num
area and reaches the borders
of Yemen, covering an es-
timated area 660 thousand
square kilometres. Some of
the areas have deposits of
copper, gold, silver, iron and
phosphate. Hazm Jalamid
area has phosphate in abun-
dance.
Several workshops were
held during the conference.
One of was on geological
hazards which dealt with how
to mitigate their effects and
seismic and volcanic hazards,
and how to deal with them
and mitigate their effects. An-
other discussed geological
tourism and how to coordi-
nate with the Ministry of Tour-
ism to start geological tour-
ism to develop a future plan,
and link tourism to geology.
The workshop also discussed
how geological areas are ex-
ploited and transformed into
tourist areas such as the dis-
tinguished Harat Al-Madinah
ister of Industry and Mineral and challenges facing the Al-Munawwarah.
Resources, Saudi Society mining sector in the Kingdom.
Dr. Al-Omari pointed out
for Geosciences in coopera- All participants from different that there are 19 volcanic free
tion and coordination with the geosciences focussed on the zones in the Kingdom that can
agency of the Ministry of Min- field of mining. More than 850 be used, and also the central
eral Resources, Dr. Al-Omari scientific and research pa- region which is defined as a
confirmed that the conference pers were received during the limestone area full of caves.
mainly focused on mining and conference, and more than He also recently discovered
mining investments. It also 500 research papers were ac- caves which are 3 km under-
discussed the developments cepted from 23 countries. ground.
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