Beyond the pros and cons that might happen, for the district itself, the road will make it easier to optimize all the potential. Lebong determined to become one of the rice-producing areas and the fish in the province of Bengkulu. In addition, this district also wants to establish processing plant patchouli. Another plan is implemented to restore Lebong as gold-producing areas, as he had been achieved during the Dutch colonial era to the Old Order.
Unfortunately, this district has no record of how much content is now owned gold. Even so, the traditional way, people trying to get the gold. At least there are about 1100 people speculate miners in the gold mine site. A gold mine in South Lebong district and four in District Lebong Top. Gold which they obtained Curup or sold to the City of Bengkulu with the selling price of Rp 98,000 per gram.
Besides gold, land district contains a variety of minerals group C. Results mining into this category, such as marble, limestone, quartz sand and kaolin, also often referred to as industrial minerals. Extractive mining C does not require sophisticated technology and is generally done traditionally as a folk mines. However, this potential is not exploited optimally.
Constraints faced mainly from lack of capital. Mining, including capital-intensive activities. Besides being used for land acquisition in the mining sites, as well as for the cost of exploitation. Sometimes issued exploitation value is not proportionate to the reserve capacity. In addition, based on inventory and mapping done quarrying C in 2002, some deposit minerals contained in these districts are in protected forest areas.
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