Advancing Your Projects in West Africa in a Cost Effective and Timely Manner

Pierrette Prince

SGS Minerals

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  SGS Global Network

  SGS West Africa Services

  On Site Services

  Environmental Services

  Mineralogy / Metallurgy

  MMI

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SGS Group

  World’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company •  64, 000 employees •  1250 offices & 640 labs in 140 countries

  Ethically driven •  Independence and integrity •  Transparency and impartiality

  Financially strong (2010 revs CHF4.8B)

  Expertise •  Global technical expertise and capabilities •  Integrated industrial, commercial and onsite services •  Multifaceted mineral services

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Life Sciences

SGS Minerals Services

Automotive

Services

Environmental Services

Trade Assurance

Services System & Service

Certification

Agricultural Services

Industrial Services

Consumer (products)

Testing Services

Oil, Gas &

Chemicals

Services

  10,000 staff in 50+ countries

  Major Service Offerings: •  Exploration and mine-site services •  Trade and shipping related services •  Financing and risk management

  Areas of Focus •  Hardrock minerals (precious & base

metals) •  REE, U, Li, Ta/Nb •  Diamonds •  Energy minerals and fertilisers •  Iron Ore and steel

  Process Technologies and Consulting •  Metallurgy and mineralogy •  Process improvement •  Modelling / Geo-metallurgical mapping •  Ore reserve estimation and 43-101 /

JORC regulatory services

Minerals Services

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Exploration

Resource Development

Feasibility

Pre-feasibility Pre-production Production

Transportation Closure

Industrial Use

Minerals Services

Geochemical Surveys and Analysis Soil MMI™ Rock Core Check

Mapping/GIS

Project Management

Geotechnical Services

Geometallurgy Domain Ore Variability Process Modeling Production Forecasting

Bulk sampling

Metallurgical Testing Services Scoping Flowsheet Dev.

Pilot Plant

Permitting

On-Site Lab/Mill Support

ISO Audits and Certification

Settlement/umpire analysis

Process Control Advanced Systems

Plant Design

Mineralogical Services (EXPLOMIN™)

Core Drilling/Logging

Orebody Modelling & Reserve Estimation

Environmental Baseline Studies Environmental Monitoring/Auditing

Acid Rock Drainage

Water Treatment

Closure Planning

Land Reclamation

Site Maintenance

E-Certificates

Quality and Quantity Analysis, Sampling and Inspection

Plant services (audits, met accounting,

debottlenecking)

Asset management

Geotechnical Services

2 Resource Report 3 PEA Prelim Economic Assessment 4 Prefeasiblity Study

Technical Reports 43-101 & JORC

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1 Property of Merit

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Distribution of SGS Geochem Labs

On site Commercial

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SGS Global Minerals Laboratories

  45 Commercial Labs •  Africa (13) •  North America (10) •  Australia (5) •  South America (9) •  Asia ( 4) •  Russia (1) •  Europe (3)

  68 On-Site Lab •  Africa (27) •  AustralAsia (25) •  North America (5) •  South America (8) •  Europe (3) •  Russia (1)

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West African Minerals Network

  Ghana •  1 Commercial Lab (Prep, FAS, BLEG, AAS, ICP, Envi. OGC) •  2 On Site Labs

  Burkina Faso •  1 Commercial Lab (Prep, FAS, BLE, AAS)

  Mali •  4 Commercial Lab (Prep, FAS, BLE, AAS) •  2 On Site Labs

  Senegal •  1 On Site Lab

  Ivory Coast •  1 Commercial Lab (prep) •  1 On Site Lab

  Mauritannia •  2 On Site Labs

  Sierra Leone •  1 On Site

  Liberia •  1 Commercial Lab (Pree, XRF, Satmagan, Davies Tube – XRF)

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Rest of Africa

  South Africa •  3 Commercial Labs ( Full geochem, incl. ICPOES,

ICPMS, XRF, metallurgical, mineralogy, diamonds OGC, Envi. )

  Tanzania •  1 Commercial Lab (Prep, FAS, AAS, ICP) •  6 On Site Labs

  Zambia •  1 Commercial Lab (Prep, AAS, Base Metals)

  DRC •  3 On Site Labs

  Eritrea •  1 On Site Lab

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Value to our Clients

  Our local network of labs in West Africa will:

•  Significantly reduce your sample logistics and transport costs

•  Improve turnaround time

•  Allow you to make decisions faster

•  Provide easy accessibility to the laboratory and our technical

staff by your project personnel

  Leverage technology and expertise from the global network: •  New technologies (MMI, QEMSCAN, Geomet, Explomin) •  Expertise

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Value to our Clients   Support of the entire SGS African and Global network:

•  > 45 Minerals operations in Africa •  Metallurgical testing and advanced Mineralogical testing in

Johannesburg •  Environmental consulting, sampling and testing from 4 facilities •  Lube oil testing, onsite and in our commercial lube oil testing

facilities

  Risk Reduction •  Financial •  Technical •  Operational •  Environmental

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On Site Services

  Grade Control

  Plant Control

  Metallurgical Accounting

  In Plant Services

  Metallurgical / Mineralogical

  Used Lubricants Testing

  Environmental

  Final Product

  Trade Services

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On Site Services - Value to our Clients

  Expertise

  BOOM

  Independence of Assay

  Cost effective

  Client focus on their core activities

  Leading edge analytical technology

  Pit to Port

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Environmental Services

ABA – Acid Base Accounting NAG – Net Acid Generating

Soil Water Characterization

Columns / Leaching

Hydrometer

Particle Size Distribution

Hydraulic Conductivity

Standard Proctor Atterberg Limits

Rowe Cell

Flumes

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SGS Technology - MMI® Soil Geochemistry

  SGS has a soil geochemistry technology to help you reduce your exploration costs.

  MMI has a proven track record in a number of regolith and geological settings throughout Africa.

  MMI soil geochemistry is based on a weak extraction of the soils to target the unbound ions only.

  By extracting the unbound ions only we access the very recently arrived ions at surface and not those that may have been transported away from the source.

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WEAK EXTRACTIONS

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Metal ions are mobile and migrate to surface Mineralization

As the ore body oxidizes metals are mobilized eg CuS reduces to Cu++ in the presence of oxygen

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Over time at surface the ions bind to soil particles

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Metal bound to soil particles is subject to transport away from source

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Lefa Gold Project, Guinea 3 discoveries in 2001

(Folokadi, Banko, Pharmacie)

Lateritic Regolith overlying 70M saprolite and clays

Au in meta sedimentary rocks

Using MMI eliminated RAB stage of exploration followed by drill testing the MMI anomalies

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More Than Any Other Technical Partner, SGS Offers

  An all-encompassing range of value-adding solutions which reduce risk and enhance value

  Pertinent, authoritative, bankable industry-standard services to help solve your problems and thus give you a competitive advantage.

  Expertise, technology, trade and testing services help you reduce risk and push you ahead of your competitors

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Thank You

Mine Africa Group

and all

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