Industrial Development in Aswan

•As a result of the intensive building on the granite reserve areas, a fence
shall be built around the granite quarries in Aswan to save the remaining
quarry resource.
•The safe scientific methods shall be applied when extracting clay from Al‐
Aqaba mines at the North of Aswan, as due to the random extraction of
clays, the cave sides were collapsed. In addition, an experienced mines
engineer shall be appointed as a requirement for licensing & renewing in
clay mines.
•Persons responsible for the collapses are obliged to underpin caves &
prevent offenders from licensing other quarries before the instauration of
current quarries.
5‐ Developing the human resources & providing technical cadres capable of
boosting economy in Aswan.
6‐ Planning for the quarry resource to be a basic resource on which the
Governorate can depend to increase the national income .
7‐ Submitting a half‐yearly report of implementing the plans of investing
quarry resources & finding new scientific & technical methods of
supervising these plans.
8‐ Stopping illegal use of explosives in extracting quarry resources & finding
new scientific & technical methods of supervising these plans.
9‐ Stopping the random utilization of quarry resource in Al‐Alaki valley (South
of Aswan)
10‐The necessity of adopting the following instant procedures:
• Permitting the licensing of marble quarries in Umm Arka Zone which is the
most important zone of extracting marble in Egypt.
• Continuing work in all granite quarries in Aswan, especially in the zones of
Al Masalah & Al Shalal, which were previously granted approvals from the
Armed Forces Operations Authority.
•Place the red granite quarry positions in Al Masalah zone on the tourist
destination map.