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Centre to certify gems & minerals from Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Zambezia, Nampula opens in Nacala-a-Velha
4:21 CAT | 07 Mar 2016
A US$50 million certification centre for gems and precious stones will open this March in the coastal district of Nacala-a-Velha in northern Mozambique.
Part of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education’s technology parks initiative, the centre will also assess the commercial quality of minerals whose production has increased substantially in recent times.
“The project is already being cited in the terms of agreements and contracts, and from this March, we can expect the gems certification centre to start operating,” Nampula government spokesman Agostinho Zacarias said after the local executive session.
Zacarias said that the centre would evaluate the quality of precious stones from Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Zambezia provinces and certify the minerals produced in each of these provinces as well as those from Nampula province.
Nampula governor Victor Borges considers the centre adds value at the provincial level not only in the development of activities within its own competence, but also in the improvement of mineral production to lower the extent to which they are exported unprocessed.
Source: AIM
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