It’s a basically uninhabited desert whose emptiness prompted Morocco to help itself to the massive Bou Craa deposits, ignoring any disputed boundary lines. Morocco is sitting on 75-85% of proven ...

Bou Craa is a large Moroccan-controlled mine in Western Saharam, but much of the region’s phosphate reserves actually remain untapped. As other big producers such as the U.S. and China actually ...

In Western Sahara, a territory controlled by Morocco, a belt carries phosphate more than sixty miles from the Bou Craa mine to the coast. It’s one of the few man-made structures visible from space.

The phosphate is extracted from the Bou Craa mine, which is operated by Phosphates de Boucraa (Phosboucraa), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morocco’s state-owned Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP).

In a notable shift in Morocco’s export landscape, the automotive industry has overtaken the historically dominant phosphate sector to become the leading export sector in 2023. According to ...

As much of North Africa struggles with unrest and growing investor uncertainty, Morocco’s oil and gas sector has received a boost this year with the arrival of international majors in search of ...

The Sahara has large phosphate reserves and a strong potential for economic growth, with 1,300 million cubic meters recoverable at the Bou Craa mine, said the report.

The belt, its presence betrayed by the bright windswept powder scattered around it on the brown earth below, travels 61 miles across the rugged terrain of Western Sahara, from the mines of Bou ...

World's longest conveyor belt stretches an incredible 61 miles and is visible from space At over 100,000 yards in length, this gargantuan delivery belt is so long NASA has recorded it from space.

A company partly owned by the Venezuelan government is importing phosphate from the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara, despite state policy to stamp out the practice. President of ...

Western Sahara Resource Watch has denounced, in recent report provides details of over the period from 1 June until 31 August 2012, the extraction and export operations of phosphate from the Bou ...