Oman ( Arabic: عمان‎ ʻUmān), officially called the Sultanate of Oman (Arabic: سلطنة عُمان‎ Salṭanat ʻUmān), is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Oman's plentiful mineral resources included chromite, dolomite, zinc, limestone, gypsum, silicon, copper, gold, cobalt and iron. There are also minor and then not fully measured deposits of silica ore in Wadi Buwa and Abutan in the Wusta Region, with magnesium ore else ware. Oil and Gas were rumoured to exist in some northern provinces to. With Turkey and Germany realizing oil was also of importance to the Allies, a small detachment of German secret agents, Persian volunteers, Namibian German ex-pats, Boar nationalist rebels and Turkish troops covertly by see on several cargo ships to encourage a loca