Kedougou Gold have created a unique window of opportunity in the Republic of Senegal. We have signed JVA’s with artisanal gold miners for mining concession rights, exploration, and exploitation licenses. As well as signed agreements for Quarrying with heavy equipment already in place.
There are currently two areas of opportunity. The first is to semi-mechanize existing gold extraction and to process and sell the gold to the open market from artisanal mining concessions within the Kedougou region of the Republic of Senegal. The Company has already invested a significant amount of time and cash in acquiring the relevant equipment and setting up and carrying operations in this area. The second is to carry out basalt quarrying, also in the Kedougou region of the Republic of Senegal, to supply aggregate to the construction industry in Senegal and Gambia.
The project has a strong social component and aims to work with the local artisanal miners to substantially increase their production thereby enabling the return of women to agricultural roles, children to schools and out of the labour-intensive artisanal mines and to ensure that mining is carried out in a safe manner. In addition, our methods allow for the removal of the use of mercury to process gold.
We are improving the sustainability of Kedougous artisanal mining by introducing safer impactful mercury extraction techniques (Retorts) to the AGMs (Artisanal Gold Miners) and utilising our Mercury free small-scale mining equipment to benefit those concessions we are working alongside
Senegal offers a stable economy with a progressive Government looking to encourage investment in this sector. We have a close relationship with the Association of Gold Miners helping secure links between the Ministry of Energy and Mining and the artisanal miners.
Investment
Gold Project benefits from near surface, low strip, high grade mineralisation on Joint Venture agreement artisanal mining sites which allows for low cost development and production.
The Project also has full mining permits on concessions currently being informally but legally mined by artisanal miners, and the Company has signed legal agreements to formalise these arrangements and modernise mining techniques.
“Gold is forever. It is beautiful, useful, and never wears out. Small wonder that gold has been prized over all else, in all ages, as a store of value that will survive the travails of life and the ravages of time.”Cite — James Blakeley
Kedougou Gold (KG) is a for-profit company that aims to start Quarrying operations on its concessions during 2023 to monopolise on the increasing demand for aggregates the country requires for the Major infrastructure projects.
We have also semi-mechanized artisanal gold mining in the Kedougou region of South East Senegal using mercury free gravity processing methods to recover gold. Senegal has a long history of political stability.
The Kedougou region is one of the most under developed in Senegal despite the presence of significant gold reserves. 12 million+ ounces (373 tons) of gold have been discovered in the last 15 years with production growing from 0.6 tons in 2006 to more than 6 tons in 2020, a change of more than 900%.
KG is able to offer the following services
•Provide up to date exploration techniques and interpret laboratory analysis of samples to identify areas with the highest grade ores to be exploited first
•Provide mechanical extraction equipment such as excavators, mini dumper trucks and backhoe loaders to increase the volume of ore mined by up to 900%
•Provide the very latest technology in mobile crushing and gravity processing plants. This will increase the gold recovery from ore processed by up to 65% over the current methods used. This technology is environmentally friendly and uses no chemicals to process the ore. In addition the expertise to operate these plants will be provided with local plant operators being trained up over time
– How rare is gold? if you could gather together all the gold mined in recorded history, melt it down, and pour it into one giant cube, it would measure only about eighteen yards across! That’s all the gold owned by every government on earth, plus all the gold in private hands, all the gold …
