Eng Mohsen Farhan, director general of the phosphate and mining company said that the company work on developing production of phosphate by establishing plants of phosphate with capacity 2.7 million tons annually to meet the needs of manufacturing raw materials for the production of phosphate fertilizers through the establishment of a new factory in the phosphate mines with 500 thousand tons capacity.

He pointed out that the reserves of phosphate ores in the Eastern region near the Palmyra amounted to 1.8 billion tons, are currently exploited these raw materials for producing phosphate ordinary and washed and a quantity of 3 million tons annually, only 2.5 million tons abroad and the rest is used to provide fertilizer plant for the production of Homs fertilizer phosphate.
He also pointed to the project of preparing and concentration of quartz sand for glass manufacture high-quality, explaining that the geological reserve of pure quartz sand in the heart of the villages estimated 150 million tons Limits have been included General Company for Phosphate and Mines, which produces material in the planned project in 2007 to create a unit and improving the specifications of purification and concentration of quartz sand In the mining villages aim of producing 200 thousand tons of sand and clean laundry and addressed Itching to separate the impurities and then classification and drying to meet the needs of the development of local industries.