Study: White sand is an Egyptian wealth

Study: White sand is an Egyptian wealth

Sand is the most important element of the environment, because it is a major national wealth, and despite its investment returns at the global level – its global returns are estimated at about 70 billion dollars – in the past years, it has not entered the circle of investment interest, and yet its returns are expected to increase in parallel with the expected industrial development.

In this context, the “Egyptian Center for Thought and Studies” revealed a study that believes that sand is a commodity in high demand for buying and selling. Because of its many uses, many strategic industries rely on it, in addition to its widespread use in modern, economically viable industrial products. In particular, investments in obtaining “silica –quartz sand” is one of the most important elements that are not of interest, despite the fact that sand is unparalleled in abundance in Egyptian lands, and can represent an important source of national income and a contributing factor to achieving…Sustainable development.

In order to benefit from sand, the Egyptian state paid attention to this element, which is considered a storehouse of nature’s bounties, and therefore attention – this after the opening of the firstblack sand complex during the end of last year – turned to looking at how to exploitsand. Al-Bayda; To maximize the added value of its natural resources, a value that aims to attract investments of more than approximately $2 billion.

The study also confirmed thatwhite sandis a raw material for the element “silicon”, which is the basis of global technological development, just as it is the main raw material in the manufacture of electronic chips and solar cells, which are industries located at the heart of the massive technological boom that has moved the world into the twenty-first century, and therefore sand can be considered White is the raw material for many applications that work to achieve sustainable development.

White sand is pure white sand rock, with a high percentage of silica (SiO2), more than 99%, and it consists of quartz grains. The term glass sand is applied to silica or quartz sand, which has chemical-physical specifications suitable for the glass industry. For example, the size of its grains usually ranges between 100 and 500 microns, while the percentage of iron oxides (Fe2O3) is less than about 0.05.%