What other natural resources do the Somali inhabited regions have?

[Nur_]

Ever since the oil deal with Turkey, I have been wanting to know what other natural resources we have and in what regions. What first comes to mind is livestock and agriculture in the south, however that seems to be threatened by instability and possible desertification.

I'm aware these resources in the Somali inhabited regions would go to Kenya/Ethiopia/Djibouti, but what are these other regions known to have and how are other countries are utilising these resources. For example, Ethiopia and the oil in Somali Galbeed.

I think Somalia could become a big exporter of teas and coffee. I rarely see anyone mention this idea in comparison to other products even though it seems profitable to me.

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[Chase]

Uranium in Mudug, but that actually requires smarts so..

 

[Rayaale]

Uranium in Mudug, but that actually requires smarts so..

It’s in ceelbuur @Step a side

 

[repo]

Nothing has ever been proven to be commercially viable so it's unlikely there's any resources other than farming and fish.

 

[Step a side]

It’s in ceelbuur @Step a side

When there is a competent govt they will extract the sepolite remains, the uranium/platinum and even potential gold. The region has the potential to take somalia out of poverty. In central Somalia we have reserves of Gold, Uranium, Sepiolite, Salt and Ceramics. Adjacent to our settlements here are offshore coastal oil fields. According to this study we were trading these resources since the time of Ajuran.

^this pic here are salt lithium dunes in ceelbuur district and other parts of galmudug

There is also a swathe of these exact minerals and resources in our southern areas alongside our agriculture and offshore oil and solar power.

The quantity and quality of our industries has the potential to take Somalia out of poverty. Elon Mask will be an El Bur customer for electric batteries and hydrocarbon biofuel.

 

[Nur_]

Uranium in Mudug, but that actually requires smarts so..

If we had a good government, we could just lure back Somalis abroad who studied these subjects to run classes on these subjects and put their heads together with locals to make a curriculum. It'd take a long time to build such institutions but it would work. A few other countries did this, if our government was literate then they would take advantage of our already existing diaspora instead of finding ways to send people abroad from scratch.

 

[TheLand]

Uranium in Mudug, but that actually requires smarts so..

The day you try to get that out is the day America will give you freedom

 

[Barkhadle1520]

When there is a competent govt they will extract the sepolite remains, the uranium/platinum and even potential gold. The region has the potential to take somalia out of poverty. In central Somalia we have reserves of Gold, Uranium, Sepiolite, Salt and Ceramics. Adjacent to our settlements here are offshore coastal oil fields. According to this study we were trading these resources since the time of Ajuran.

^this pic here are salt lithium dunes in ceelbuur district and other parts of galmudug

There is also a swathe of these exact minerals and resources in our southern areas alongside our agriculture and offshore oil and solar power.

The quantity and quality of our industries has the potential to take Somalia out of poverty. Elon Mask will be an El Bur customer for electric batteries and hydrocarbon biofuel.

Really not a lot of Uranium, thats 30k$ worth of uranium at best

 

[ZBR]

Tea and coffee is slave labor with no return just grueling serf economy

 

[Barkhadle1520]

Tea and coffee is slave labor with no return just grueling serf economy

Coffee if done on an industrial scale could be good
If one day Ethiopia turns to shit and stops exporting coffee we could take the opportunity to replace their kaffa processing factories with our own, and it would definitely sell with some origin of coffee propoganda cause coffee did come from us and not them

 

[NidarNidar]

Awdal has gold, precious metals and building material cement(limestone, clay and gypsum), marble etc..

 

[Barkhadle1520]

Awdal has gold, precious metals and building material cement(limestone, clay and gypsum), marble etc..

How much are we talking ? Honestly except oil, fishery and wind potential somalis dont have any natural resources in abundance, and the world is shifting away from oil so even if we start digging oil in the next decade were very late on schedule

 

[NidarNidar]

How much are we talking ? Honestly except oil, fishery and wind potential somalis dont have any natural resources in abundance, and the world is shifting away from oil so even if we start digging oil in the next decade were very late on schedule

Oil isn't going away anytime soon, that rumour has been in circulation even before my mother was born, truthfully we don't know, but the potential is there, I remember reading from historical sources that Adal had sizable gold( it either got it from it's own mines or bought them from the interior, atm there are only artisanal mines being operated.

 

[Barkhadle1520]

Oil isn't going away anytime soon, that rumour has been in circulation even before my mother was born, truthfully we don't know, but the potential is there, I remember reading from historical sources that Adal had sizable gold( it either got it from it's own mines or bought them from the interior, atm there are only artisanal mines being operated.

Nah somali as a whole doesnt have gold potential saw a study on that, only region which is abundant in it is coastal sudan, oil is definitely going away, oil is used a tool in geopolitics and many countries are trying to be less dependant on it, this is why mbs introduced taxes for the first time in saudi and started project 2030

 

[Neptune]

Awdal has gold, precious metals and building material cement(limestone, clay and gypsum), marble etc..

Theres been a gold rush these last few years in Awdal and Sanaag. There should be more government investment in mining operations.

 

[NidarNidar]

Theres been a gold rush these last few years in Awdal and Sanaag. There should be more public investment in mining operations.

It's not good, what worries me is damage to historical sites that haven't been discovered yet.

 

[Neptune]

It's not good, what worries me is damage to historical sites that haven't been discovered yet.

Yes it's like the wild west out there. That's why I propose public/private partnerships. The whole mining process needs to be more formalized. They've just been blowing up areas with dynamite without assessing anything.

 

[Afrax]

Really not a lot of Uranium, thats 30k$ worth of uranium at best

This is not true. An estimated 10–25 million tons of triuranium octoxide (U₃O₈), with a concentration of 0.07–0.08%, is worth at least $1.3 billion USD. At the higher end, the valuation could exceed $4 billion USD.

 

[Barkhadle1520]

This is not true. An estimated 10–25 million tons of triuranium octoxide (U₃O₈), with a concentration of 0.07–0.08%, is worth at least $1.3 billion USD. At the higher end, the valuation could exceed $4 billion USD.

And thats in galmudug alone ?

 

[Afrax]

And thats in galmudug alone ?

The document says three locations and Allio Ghelle in Bur Massif. Depends where that place is at tbh. I have no idea where it is.