In 2020, the Swedish mining equipment company Epiroc announced that it would no longer supply the Bou Craa phosphate mine, which is in the Western Sahara but operated by Morocco. Others could ...

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).

There isn't much in the Western Sahara, ... When operating, this conveyor belt can shuttle 2,000 metric tons of rock per hour from the mines of Bou Craa to the port city of El-Aaiun, ...

The most spectacular mine in Western Sahara is in Bou Craa, from which 10 percent of OCP SA’s profits come; Bou Craa, which is known as “the world’s longest conveyor belt system,” carries ...

The Bou Craa mine in the Western Sahara is home to one of the largest reserves in the world of phosphate, a critical ingredient in agricultural fertilizer. Its production capacity, ...

The U.N. considers Western Sahara to be a non-self ... all those renewable plants—wind and solar—and they mentioned an example of where a wind farm is powering the Bou Craa phosphate ...