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a host of other metals and minerals over the years, including copper, cobalt, uranium, coal, potash and iron ore. Says Nkgodi: “We have the expertise to undertake materials handling and processing for just about any commodity. Our skillset encompasses every stage of comminu- tion and processing from the point where the ore hits the ROM pad through to the finished product. We can take projects from the desktop or scoping study stage right through to feasi- bility study stage and then even further into design, engineering, procurement, execution and commissioning. “In cases, where we manage entire feasibility

of the contract was the dawn of a new era for the company.” Since the Siguiri project, SENET has designed and constructed many CIP/CIL gold plants, mostly in West Africa, with the latest being the 1,24 Mt/a facility at Hummingbird’s Yanfolila gold project in Mali, which (as this article was being written) was on the verge of first production. SENET was also responsible for the process plant and associated infrastruc- ture in the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on the project. SENET’s expertise, of course, extends well beyond gold and it has undertaken work on

From left: Hugo Swart, Managing Director of SENET, Darren Naylor, New Business Development Director, and Mpho Nkgodi, General Manager: Business Development.

SENET was the EPCM contractor for the 3 Mt/a Tongon gold plant, the first processing plant to be built in Côte d’Ivoire (photo: Randgold Resources).

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