{"id":19247,"date":"2024-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/19247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:12","slug":"groundbreaking-ceremony-for-mazoon-copper-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/19247\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking ceremony for Mazoon copper project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mazoon Mining Company, a subsidiary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdo.om\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minerals Development Oman<\/a>, has celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony of the Mazoon Copper Project in the Wilayat of Yanqul in <a href=\"https:\/\/dhr.gov.om\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Dhahirah Governorate<\/a>, Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The project is an integrated operation for producing copper concentrates. Covering an area of 20 square kilometres, it includes five mines and a plant capable of processing 2.5 million tonnes of copper ore annually.<\/p>\n<p>The project marks a significant step forward for Oman&#8217;s mining sector, confirming the Sultanate&#8217;s position on the global copper concentrate production map and contributing to the expansion of copper value chains.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also promote social and economic development in Al Dhahirah Governorate in general, and the Wilayat of Yanqul in particular.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2095232912  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64423 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-6-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Copper Mining in Oman\" width=\"796\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The integrated operation for producing copper concentrates is a major step forward for Oman&#8217;s mining sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19248,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions\/19248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}