Mineral Sands Wealth Exposes Sri Lanka’s Industrial Development Deficit

Sri Lanka’s mineral-sands industry presents one of the clearest examples of the country’s failure to transform valuable natural resources into a competitive domestic manufacturing and export industry, despite possessing commercially important deposits of ilmenite, rutile, zircon and other heavy minerals. The Government’s decision to allocate 58 mineral-sand grids along the eastern coastal belt to Lanka […] The post Mineral Sands Wealth Exposes Sri Lanka’s Industrial Development Deficit appeared

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