With Operations stretching from the Cape Town to Cairo, and from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, these leading mining companies in Africa include some of the most prestigious multinational conglomerates in the world, such as African Copper Plc, Africa Maxmining Services Company, Oando Energy Resources, Jubilee Platinum Corporation, Kumba Iron Ore and Cardinal Resources Ltd.
AngloGold Ashanti
AngloGold Ashanti is an independent, global gold mining company with a diverse, high-quality portfolio of operations, projects and exploration activities across ten countries on four continents. While gold is our principal product, we also produce silver (Argentina) and sulphuric acid (Brazil) as by-products and will pursue value-creating opportunities in other minerals where we can leverage our existing assets, skills and experience to enhance value creation.
They have built a Strong and Formidable brand
• Third largest gold producer globally and the largest on the African continent, producing 3.3Moz and employing 34,263 people in 2019
• Leading responsible gold miner in meaningful partnership with host communities and government – we aim to create valuable outcomes for stakeholders over the long term
• Listed on four stock exchanges around the world – the Johannesburg, New York, Australian and Ghana exchanges – and included in the JSE Top 40 Index, FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment Index Series (of the FTSE4Good Index), Responsible Mining Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (now part of S&P Global Inc) and the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
• A geographically diverse shareholder base includes some of the world’s largest financial institutions
• Market capitalisation of $9.28bn as at 31 December 2019
Africa MaxMining Services Company
Africa Maxmining Services Company is one of the leading providers of mining services in Africa with its operations mostly based in Ghana and Equatorial Guinea. Their services include exploration and development; Geological survey conduction, Rock Engineering and Slope Stability Analysis and Geotechnics for Infrastructure. They also offer other mining services like risk assessment and management, independent project review to analyse the feasibility of the project, open-pit mining, logistics/transportation, fuel supply, chemical supply, underground mining, heavy and light duty equipment supply, environmental geochemistry and ARD, metallurgy and mineral processing.
AMSC also takes care of the aftermath by offering services like Mine water management, tailings and mine waste engineering and Heap Leach Engineering.
Oando Energy Resources
Another of the giants in this field is Oando Energy Resources, which is a leading African exploration and production company. Oando is an independent oil and gas company with world-class operations; a company at the cutting edge of Africa’s upstream sector, with significant investments in a robust portfolio of oil and gas fields, as well as participating interests in onshore and offshore producing assets.
This company’s assets for exploration, development and production are mostly located in Nigeria, and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of São Tomé and Príncipe.
It also holds interests in 14 licenses for the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas assets located onshore, swamp, and offshore.
Jubilee Metals Group Plc
Jubilee has strategically struck up partnerships with mining companies and governments to develop and implement metal recovery projects from mine waste and it utilises advanced environmentally sustainable metal recovery techniques, ensuring a zero-effluent policy; Leading to a secure low risk, low capital intensive, long-term commodity production from mine surface waste materials with reduced risk and capital outlay when compared to traditional mining techniques.
It Implements proven and cutting-edge metallurgical processing solutions to recover metals from historical and current mine discard material.
This company is the exclusive partner to Hernic Ferrochrome Proprietary Limited (“Hernic”), the world’s fourth-largest integrated ferrochrome producer, recovering the Platinum Group Metals (“PGMs”) from the chrome tailings and platinum rich surface material. This gives Jubilee access to historic tailings and current tailings from Hernic continue to be added at a rate of about 17,000 t/mth. The Company commenced operations of the fully integrated chrome and PGM processing facility with first chrome production during February 2017, and first PGM production during March 2017.
In January 2019, Jubilee acquired the sole rights to the Windsor SA PGM project under a profit share agreement, its third PGM-bearing surface material project.
Kumba Iron Ore- Anglo American
This company like others mentioned before is also into exploration; planning and building; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling.
They are a leading supplier of high-quality iron ore to the global steel industry that is focused on creating and sharing value for a range of stakeholders.
Kumba Iron Ore produces a high-grade iron ore that is one of the minerals that society needs to develop and prosper. Iron ore is the key component in steel, the most widely used of all metals. It is used in the construction of buildings and bridges, and manufacturing of vehicles and many household appliances.
Cardinal Resources Limited
To end the list is Cardinal Resources Limited which is a West African gold‐focused exploration and development Company that holds interests in tenements within Ghana, West Africa.
The Company is focused on the development of the Namdini Project with a Proved and Probable Ore Reserve of 5.1 Moz and is now advancing the feasibility study.
Exploration programmes are also continuing at the Company’s Bolgatanga (Northern Ghana) and Subranum (Southern Ghana) Projects.
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