Economy: Data on Kenya’s mineral wealth roll out – State

Data on Kenya’s mineral wealth will soon be available to investors after a multi-agency team moved to roll out the country’s first major survey and mapping project since independence.

The team, which comprises specialists from ministries including Interior, Petroleum and Mining, ICT and Lands, has been checking accuracies of various national calibrations.

Speaking to Business Hub yesterday, Mining Principal secretary John Omenge said the calibrations have already been done over areas which had a good airborne geophysical survey.

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Kenya has huge mineral potential which is already being exploited, but the PS said a lot will improve, and it can be exploited better and bring more than the Sh30 billion it achieved in the last financial year.

“We intend to grow the sector’s contribution to the gross domestic product to three per cent in the medium term,” he said.

Omenge said the government chose to use its own agencies to work on the project.

“The Directorate of Remote Sensing has the capabilities to image from a platform a distance from where the resources are located,” he said.