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Mining in North Africa
North Africa runs on two great resources above all others: phosphates and gold. Morocco sits on the largest phosphate reserves on the planet, worked at Khouribga and Bou Craa, while the Eastern Desert of Egypt and a fast-rising Sudanese sector carry the region's gold. Add iron ore at Aswan, Bahariya and the vast Gara Djebilet deposit, plus the silver, lead, zinc and rare primary cobalt of Morocco, and you have a band of countries with real depth. Across Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Sudan, AMIQ records 30 active projects out of 39 on file, a smaller and more concentrated pipeline than the south, and names the people who release the spend well ahead of any public procurement notice.
Live mining projects tracked across North Africa
The commodities that power mining in North Africa
Phosphate rock and gold lead the way, yet the same ground yields iron ore, base metals and a rare seam of primary cobalt. Each commodity carries its own producers and its own buying rhythm, so a supplier here is seldom hostage to a single material to keep the order book filled.
No country holds more phosphate rock than Morocco, where OCP works the Khouribga and Bou Craa fields. Tunisia adds the Gafsa basin, Algeria its Djebel Onk deposit and Egypt the seams at Abu Tartur.
The metal sits at two poles of the region. Egypt's Eastern Desert built the modern Sukari operation, while Sudan has grown into one of the busiest gold sectors on the continent.
Egypt draws iron ore from Aswan and the Bahariya oasis, while Algeria holds Gara Djebilet, one of the giant undeveloped deposits anywhere, a long-running prospect that keeps steel-grade demand in view.
Morocco rounds out its base-metal output with lead and zinc, a steady stream of concentrate that keeps smelters supplied and gives plant builders and hauliers a recurring line of work.
The Imiter mine in Morocco is among the leading primary silver producers on the continent, a single high-grade operation that draws specialist drilling, processing and refining suppliers to one location.
Morocco's Bou Azzer mine is one of the few places on earth that wins cobalt as a primary product rather than a copper by-product, putting the region squarely inside the battery-metals conversation.
Be first to the phosphate and gold work up north
Subscribe and the North African field opens up: each tracked scheme arrives with the owner, engineer and EPC contact our desk has verified. You put your offer forward while the scope is still being drawn, not once a shortlist has closed and the names are spoken for.
What AMIQ gives a supplier chasing North African work
Behind every phosphate plant in Morocco and every gold mine in the Eastern Desert runs a deep bench of service providers, and the order tends to go to whoever was talking to the operator before the scope set hard. Drill crews, process engineers, assay labs, fabricators, dealers and hauliers all want one thing first: to know which schemes are advancing and who holds the pen on the budget. Supplying that knowledge is the whole point of what we do.
Get there ahead of the notice. Search by commodity, phase and country to pull up schemes whose needs are still being shaped, long before anything reaches a published tender list.
Approach the person who awards. Each file names the owner, the engineering lead, the EPC and the suppliers already in place, every one checked and kept current by our desk, so your pitch reaches the hand that signs rather than a switchboard.
Catch every shift the day it happens. A note reaches you by mail or message as soon as a scheme joins the record or a tracked one moves up a phase, so no window of opportunity quietly closes on you.
The whole region under one roof. The record stretches from the Moroccan phosphate fields through the Eastern Desert gold belt to the Sudanese diggings, taking in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, so no working district drops out of sight.
Shaped for the people mines actually pay. Prospectors, drillers, design houses, laboratories, fabrication shops, equipment yards and freight firms all reach for AMIQ when their next contract up here is in their sights.
One window onto the lot. Live schemes here gather in a single searchable view, sat next to the rest of AMIQ's continental record so you can size this region up against any other whenever it suits.
Why phosphates and gold define the region
North African mining wears two faces. To the west sits the phosphate world, anchored by Morocco's command of the largest reserves on the planet at Khouribga and Bou Craa and continued through the Gafsa basin in Tunisia, Djebel Onk in Algeria and Abu Tartur in Egypt. To the east runs the gold story, from the Sukari operation in Egypt's Eastern Desert across to the busy artisanal and industrial fields of Sudan. Between the two stand the iron ore of Aswan, Bahariya and the enormous Gara Djebilet deposit, the silver of Imiter, the lead and zinc of Morocco and the rare primary cobalt of Bou Azzer.
That blend of mature state-scale production and newer gold ground gives the region real depth for the firms that supply mines. AMIQ counts 30 live schemes here out of 39 on its books, a tighter set than the busy south, where long-running plants place steady repeat orders while younger ventures are still settling who they buy from. Every scheme lands in one searchable place, tagged with the people our desk has checked: who owns it, who engineers it and who handles its buying. Reaching those people, and the full file behind them, is what a subscription is for. For the country with the deepest record up here, read Mining in Egypt, measure the region against the continent's largest producer in Mining in South Africa, or follow what is moving right now across new mining projects in Africa.
Where North African mining is concentrated
The region's output is split across six countries, each leaning on a particular commodity and carrying its own roster of projects. Read that geography and you already have a strong sense of which doors your next contract is most likely to come through.
Egypt →
The deepest record in the region: Sukari gold in the Eastern Desert, iron ore at Aswan and Bahariya, and phosphate at Abu Tartur. Read the full country page for project-level detail.
Morocco
The phosphate giant, with OCP at Khouribga and Bou Craa, plus Imiter silver, Bou Azzer primary cobalt and a steady output of lead and zinc.
Algeria
Home to the colossal Gara Djebilet iron ore deposit and the Djebel Onk phosphate field, a resource base only now drawing serious development attention.
Tunisia
The Gafsa basin keeps Tunisia among the established phosphate producers, supplying a long-running export trade in rock and processed product.
Sudan
One of the fastest-growing gold sectors on the continent, blending large mechanised operations with a sprawling artisanal mining scene.
Libya
Better known for oil, yet holding iron ore and industrial-mineral ground that keeps it on the watch list for exploration and early-stage work.
Explore mining across the region
Keep reading on the operators, countries and supply chains that shape mining across North Africa and the wider continent.
Mining in North Africa: common questions
How big is the North African pipeline on AMIQ?
Our researchers keep 39 North African schemes on file and watch 30 of them as live work today. That is a tighter, more concentrated set than the continent's busier south, tilted toward Morocco's phosphate plants and the gold and iron ore belts of Egypt and Sudan.
Which commodities lead mining in North Africa?
Phosphates and gold sit at the top. Morocco holds the world's largest phosphate reserves at Khouribga and Bou Craa, with more in Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, while gold is led by Egypt's Sukari mine and a fast-growing Sudanese sector. Iron ore, silver, lead, zinc and primary cobalt fill out the rest of the picture.
Which countries belong to North Africa here?
For mapping purposes we group six states: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Sudan. Morocco leads the phosphate and base-metal side, Egypt and Sudan supply the gold and iron ore, and Tunisia, Algeria and Libya each contribute deposits of their own to the picture.
Where is the gold in North Africa?
Two areas dominate. Egypt's Eastern Desert is home to the modern Sukari operation, a flagship producer in the country, while Sudan has expanded into one of the most active gold sectors on the continent, combining large mechanised mines with widespread artisanal workings.
How does a supplier win work with a North African mine?
Speaking to a scheme early, before its brief is fixed, is what swings the decision. AMIQ shows you which schemes are advancing and what stage each has reached, then puts the owner, engineer and buying contacts in front of you, so your approach reaches a live site rather than chasing a tender once it has gone public.
What does a North Africa subscription include?
Paid access opens the complete file behind each active scheme: the confirmed owner, the engineering lead and the buying team, a description of the scope, and alerts the moment a new scheme appears or a tracked one moves forward. Those contacts and the detail that sits with them are the part you cannot see without subscribing.
