As any scientist knows, there is no substitute for rock phosphate. Known as P2O5, rock phosphate is the mineral that literally holds DNA together and is a crucial ingredient in agricultural fertilizers. Global supplies are finite and prices ever-increasing.  Asia is the largest consumer of phosphate fertilizer and investors are turning to Egypt as technological advances make its 1 billion tons of rock phosphate reserves more economically feasible to extract.

However, despite winning accolades for an improved business environment and plentiful pro-investment rhetoric, Egypt’s mining industry has failed to secure the type of capital inflows that would help it move up the supply chain

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