In Ivory Coast, Endeavor in the starting blocks to exploit the Tanda gold mine from 2028

Production from a “world-class” gold deposit at Tanda, in eastern Ivory Coast, will begin in 2028. Production from the deposit, discovered in 2022 and named “Tanda-Iguéla,” is estimated at around 11 tonnes of gold per year, according to the general director of Endeavor Mining, Ian Cockerill, following an exchange with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan.

4 000 jobs directs

The total production will be 150 tonnes of gold over a lifespan of 15 years, according to the DG. The deposit will create around 4,000 direct and indirect jobs and will the object with an investment of 530 billion CFA francs (807 million euros).

Endeavor Mining operates two other mines in Ivory Coast, Ity and Lafigué. Nearly 200 people were ” slightly “intoxicated” at the end of June after eating fish from a river polluted by a leak of cyanide settling water from the Ity mine, according to the Ivorian authorities. Endeavor Mining had denied any “endangerment” of populations.

National production on the rise

In May, a gold deposit was discovered in the west, constituting the country's largest to date, had announcement the Canadian mining group Montage Gold. Named “Koné project”, its resources are estimated at 155.5 tonnes of gold.

In November 2023, the Ivorian Minister of Mines, Oil and Energy, Mamadou They can't be weak Coulibaly estimated national gold production in 2024 at 55 tonnes, compared to 41.8 tonnes in 2021, a figure already increasing compared to previous years.

The country has also diamond, iron, nickel, manganese, bauxite, copper and this year discovered its first deposit of coltan.

Long focused on agriculture and in particular production of cocoa, the Ivorian economy has turned in recent years towards the riches of its subsoil, with the discovery of significant deposits of minerals, oil and of gaz.

(With AFP)