SAUDI ARABIAN GEOLOGY.

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Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia: A Guide for Investment and Development. First edition, first printing, sent by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to the Stanford-educated petrogeologist Soliman Mahmoud Soliman, with a loosely inserted printed presentation card and a typed letter signed from the deputy minister, F. K. Kabbani.The contents includes data gathered on mineral deposits between 1945 to 1963, as well as information on the Saudi Mining Code. Besides the usual topographic features, the large map notes oil fields, lava flows and volcanic debris, flats (silt, clay, and sand), areas under cultivation, date gardens, and deposits of 21 different minerals.Soliman published papers on petrol exploitation in the Nile Delta and Sinai and contributed to the proceedings of several Arab Petroleum Congresses. The letter, dated 28 June 1966 and sent care of the West German Bundesanstalt für Bodenforschung (Federal Institute for Soil Research), reads: "Dear Dr Soliman, In response to your letter dated June 8th, 1966, we have the pleasure to send you herewith, one copy of our Bulletin No. 1, entitled 'Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia - a guide for investment and development'. We trust that this informative material will be of interest to you. Yours very truly, Dr F. K. Kabbani, Deputy Minister for Mineral Resources".

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