The activities mining or extractive registered a decrease of 15.7% in the second quarter of 2022. This is the decrease in gold (-23.4%), phosphate (-12.0%) and salt (-8.9%) production, which varied quarterly. Activity in the branch also fell by 21.1% in the second quarter of 2022 over one year.

Une contraction de 3,8% des activités extractives est notée en cumul sur le premier semestre de l' année selon la Directorate of Forecasting and Economic Studies (DPEE) . Indeed, in the second half of last year, gold production fell by 23.4% quarterly after falling by 11.6% a quarter earlier. On the global gold market, demand fell from 1,240.2 t to 948.4 t between the first and second quarters of 2022, a decrease of 23.5%. An ounce of gold is traded on the global market at $1,870.6 compared to $1,877.2 in the previous quarter. Gold production fell by 26.7% in the second quarter of 2022.