Eritrea - Ministry of Information

It is quite gratifying to note that the Ministry of Mining and Energy of the State of Eritrea has hosted for a third consecutive time, The International Business conferences on the Mining Industry held at Asmara palace between 2nd and 3rd October 2012. According to the media coverage scholars, Executive officers and representatives in the discipline of the Mining Industry comprising both of foreigners and Nationals have shared their know-how and expertise to the conference participants. Such laudable organizing and managing of a series of events will put the country as a renowned hub of International Mining conference for the many years to come.

Precious Values

The worth and significance of a people is not measured by its size or number of natural resources, but by the social values it possesses. And a people with precious values remains strongly united, highly valued and most of all respected.

Eritrea has a long history of mining. Despite this modern mining began at the beginning of the 20th century following the Italian colonization of the country. After the Second World War, mining and related operations continued throughout the country, although intermittently. In the early seventies this resulted in the development of the short lived modern mine at Debarwa, before the independence struggle forced its closure.

National Harmony

What our world fell short of making the grade over the past two mil¬lennia is but ensuring global harmony. On the contrary, national harmo¬ny—which, beyond belief to many, Eritrea is blessed with and yet other nations throughout the world are bereft of—remains one of the key se¬crets of the Eritrean people. The Eritrean people managed to fulfill popu¬lar participation and aspiration of the entire nation, thereby paying huge sacrifices in the protracted liberation struggle for achieving a common sovereign state and national harmony.

The geological set up of Eritrea is made up of Precambrian basement rocks that are overlain un-conformably by predominantly Mesozoic sedimentary rocks and Tertiary to Quaternary volcanic and sedimentary rocks.

Civilized Culture

Respecting humanity and equality in a civilized manner are deeply rooted within the Eritrean society. Starting from ancient times, the Eritrean communities had their own civilized laws and well-devel¬oped traditional ways of managing public affairs. During the colonial period, one researcher who deeply studied and observed the laws and the way of doing things in Eritrea described the Eritrean people as: “civilized people who live peaceful without the police.”