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On 18th March 2025, the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) received Ms. Rose Masaka from Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC). Ms. Rose has visited the Centre for the purpose of preparing a Television (TV) programs on the mineral services and products of the Centre. These television programs will cover the role of Simple Ceramic Technology for the cottage industry and youth and female empowerment for irradication of poverty and raise the level of standards of living in sustainable development. This first program will be at the Industrial Minerals Application Department (IMAD) of AMGC. Apart from that, a second TV program will be recorded on Semiprecious Gemstones Value Addition aiming to establish more cottage industry for youth and female empowerment, creation of jobs for sustainable development. Other TV program which will be recorded will include Mineral Processing and Small Scale Department (MPSSMD) for the purpose of capacity building to small scale mining on the best mineral processing technology in order to attain high recovery during mineral processing. The Director General of AMGC appreciated the visit paid Ms Rose and said a word of welcome TBC to the Centre promised to continue with the previous cooperation between AMGC and TBC because most of the past AMGC event has been recorded and broadcasting by TBC. Recording these TV programs are scheduled to start on Tuesday 25th March 2025 at 10:00hrs in AMGC premise in Kunduchi area, Dar es Salaam.
On 11th March, 2025, the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC), an ISO 9001:2015 Certified has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ICON Industrial Services (U) LTD from Uganda, the member state of the Centre. ICON is a Ugandan oil and gas service company established in 2012 to carry out array of core analysis related services. This event has been graced by the AMGC Board Member from Tanzania, Mr. Terence Thomas Ngole and the Director General of AMGC, Mr. Ibrahim Shaddad and witnessed by AMGC Quality Manager and Manager of Chemical and Environmental Department, Mr. Charles Buteta Athuman. The scopes of this cooperation include working together as sister laboratories in the area of analytical work and ensuring capacity building between the two parties.
Event of Raising the South Sudan Flag at the Centre as Member State number nine (9) Martin Gama Abucha, Minister of Mining, and RSS
Event of Raising the South Sudan Flag at the Centre as Member State number nine (9) Martin Gama Abucha, Minister of Mining, and RSS
On November 29, 2024, the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC), an ISO 9001:2015 certified received a team of two lecturers from the University of Dodoma (UDOM), College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. The team included 1. Dr. Mtabazi Sahihi, HoD, Chemistry Department 2. Dr. Benatus Mvile, Coordinator of Higher Education for Economic Transformation (HEET) Project The aim of the visit was to familiarize with activities of the Centre and discuss the collaboration between UDOM and AMGC, especially in the areas of training for capacity building, research, and consultancy.
OnDecember 23, 2024, the African Minerals And Geosciences Centre (AMGC), an ISO 9001:2015 certified has received three mining engineers from Ariab Mining Company (AMC) in Sudan. The engineers include; 1. Mr. Jamal Hassan Ali Abaker 2. Mr. Abdallah Haroon Ahmed Mahmud 3. Mr. Bushra Abdelmahmoud Mohammed Abdelmajied The engineers will be attending a two-week training course on Mineral Economics and Strategy. The course will be conducted by Mineral Proceesing and Small Scale Mining Department of the Centre from 23 December 2024 to 03 January 2025.
On December 10, 2024, the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC), an ISO 9001:2015 Certified, received a team of two technical personnel from WIRSAM SOUTH AFRICA namely; 1. Eng. Manuel Grobbelaar - Service Engineer/Specialist on Tescan Electron Micrscopes. 2. Ms. Lize-Meri Prinsloo - Personal Assistant to Eng. Grobbelaar. The team came to provide technical service to the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) machine in the Analytical Fingerprint Laboratory (AFP).
Mr. Ibrahim Shaddad, the Director General of the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC), paid this morning, 18 December 2024, a work visit to H.E. Hassan Ali Joho, the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy, and Maritime Affairs of Kenya, the current Chairman of AMGC Governing Council. The meeting was attended by Mr. Elijah Mwangi, the Principal Secretary of State Department for Mining at the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, Kenya, who is a distinguished member of AMGC Standing Committee for Officials.
Pursue to a courtesy visit paid by Mr. Ibrahim Shaddad, the Director General of the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) to the esteemed Embassy of Republic of the Sudan in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 26 November 2024, H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdalla Abd Elhameed, the newly assigned Sudanese Ambassdor in Dar es Salaam paid a familiarization visit to AMGC on November 11, 2024.
The African Minerals & Geosciences Centre (AMGC) was honored by a fimilrization visit from a high level delegation arrived from Nairobi, Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to attend official opening of Tanzania’s Mining and Investment Conference (TIMC) 2024. The delegation was led by the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy, and Maritime Affairs H.E Hassan Ali Joho in his capacity, the current Chairman of AMGC Governing Council. H.E. Hassan Ali Joho was accompanied by Mr. Elijah Mwangi, the Principal Secretary of State Department for Mining at the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, Kenya, who is a distinguished member of AMGC Standing Committee for Officials.

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AMGC in brief

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The African Minerals and Geo-sciences Centre (AMGC), formerly known as Southern and Eastern African Mineral Centre (SEAMIC) was established in 1977 principally to carry out regional geological surveying and to provide minerals exploration and consulting services for programs of its founding member states, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique, later joined by Uganda, Angola and the Comoros. Kenya became a member in 2006 and the Sudan joined in 2010. In 2007, the ministerial meeting in Maputo decided that membership is open to all African states. To reflect this expansion of the scope, the name of the Centre changed to African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) starting from July 2015.

In 1991 AMGC moved its operations to an extensive new site in Dar es Salaam with a mission to “Promote socio-economic and environmentally responsible mineral sector development in Africa”. To meet the new demands of the mineral sector stakeholders the Centre diversified its services to provide a hightech, state-of-the-art minerals analytical laboratory services and geoinformation data processing activities, complimented with the provision of short term specialized trainings. The trainings were provided under GEODESA, GISAfrica and AEGOS and other smaller projects with funding from the EU, UNDP, UNIDO and the governments of Japan, India, Belgium and France.

The availability of the Centre’s ISO 9000:2008 certified analytical and data processing services at a closer proximity to the exploration and development sites has significantly eased the burden of the investors in conclusively defining areas of mineral potential and hence accelerating mineral discovery and development to benefit the member states national economies, provide employment, reduce poverty and improve the livelihood of its people and to contribute to growth of their respective national economies.

The African Minerals and Geo sciences Centre (AMGC) is an African mineral service provider with the following mission, vision, mandate and objectives.
VISION:
To be a pioneer and leader in the provision of mineral services in Africa
MISSION:
To promote socio-economic and environmentally responsible mineral development in Africa
MANDATE:
 To be a Centre of Excellence and Significance able to provide specialized services for the mineral industries and the overall development of the sector in region.

AMGC MAIN OBJECTIVE ARE:-
- To facilitate the co-ordination, harmonization and access to mineral resources development and provisions of support services in Africa.
- To establish, where relevant, Africa networks of programmes and services and to promote Africa collaboration.
- To promote indigenous mineral based industrialization.
- To promote awareness on potential of the mineral sector's contribution to the economic and social development in Africa.
- To promote responsible investment and free flow of capital, labor, goods and services for mining sector development in Africa.
- To facilitate the promotion of mining prospects with the highest potential for economic and social impact and
- To facilitate the harmonization of mineral sector's policies and legislation in Africa

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

AMGC is an ISO 9001-2008 certified, high tech minerals laboratory, training and consultancy services provider for Africa . Private companies, small scale miners, R&D institutions and the member states are its major clients. AMGC has 5 unique laboratories that cater for various services to the mining sector and these are:
  • Chemical and Environmental Lab
    Analyses various types of geological & environmental materials applying wet chemistry, XRF, XRD, ICP and mercury analytical techniques.
  • Mineral Processing and Small Scale Mining Lab
    Conducts mineral beneficiation services to provide basic data that is required for ore reserve estimation that would enable the economic viability of a mine.
  • Mineralogy, Petrology and Gemmology Lab
    Deals with testing and identification of rocks, minerals, clays and sediments and carries out gemstones and diamonds identification, grading, certification.
  • Industrial Minerals Application Lab
    Produces ceramic products & conducts product design and ceramics prototype production
  • Geo-information Lab
    Provides GIS, remote sensing applications and Geo-informatics data processing and consultancy services.
  • All the Laboratories
    Provide training and consultancy in the above mentioned fields.

Core Values

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  • Supporting the mineral sector to benefit the African nation prosper
  • Improving the capacity of African nations to enable developing their mineral resources
  • Availing up-to-date technology to the African mineral resources sector
  • Advocate increased partnership among African nations to lift up each other Support for the under-privileged sectors of the community in the mineral resources sector to improve their benefits from their activities.

Our Services

Geoinformation
Geoinformation Services
  • Data Capture and Analogue to Digital Conversion
  • Data Compilation and GIS
  • Data Standardization
  • Map Preparation and Publication
  • Data Dissemination Data Acquisition
    and Exploration Surveys
MPG
Training Services
Training courses are offered by the Centre, scheduled or upon request tailor-made, on different topics related to the mineral industry. Some of the course modules are developed internally and others are developed based on requests from customers.
Microscope
Laboratory Services
  • Analysis of Precious & base Metals
  • Water Analysis
  • Wet Chemistry
  • Mineralogical and Petrological
  • Gemmological and Gem cutting
  • Sample Preparation and Ore Testing
  • Industrial Minerals Applications & Ceramics

Feature News & Events

Office Closure Notification for Friday, December 27, 2024

To our esteemed customers, please be informed that our office will be closed on Friday, 27 December, 2024. We will resume our regular operations on Monday, 30 December 2024. If you have any urgent matters, please feel free to contact us at matokeo@seamic.org before this date.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

New Training Courses

The Mineralogy, Petrology Department is happy to announce the following new training courses:-

1. Gemstone/Mineral Estimation and Valuation
2. Jewellery Design
3. Gemstone Exploration and Gem Safari's

For further information please contact matokeo@seamic.org 

The 29th Colloquium of African Geology CAG29

The Colloquium of African Geology (CAG) is a major biennial meeting organized under the auspices of the Geological Society of Africa (GSAF), where earth scientists globally have the opportunities to present their research results on topics related to African geology and surrounding areas. The event will take place on 26 - 29 September, 2023 in Windhoek, Namibia. For further information please contact cag29@mme.gov.na, cag29.whk@gmail.com or+264 61 2848398

PanAfGeo Photography Competition

PanAfGeo is running a Photography Competition for all participants of the PanAfGeo project.
The theme for your photos is “What PanAfGeo means to you?” and can include entries on how you think PanAfGeo benefits you, your Survey, your Society or your Country. Ten finalists will see their photos printed in high resolution, framed and exhibited during the final meeting of the project in 2024. Winners will be announced during that meeting and on the PanAfGeo website and social media.

Key information:

  • Deadline: 22nd of March 2024
  • The contestants must have been involved in any way in PanAfGeo phase 2, and the photograph must be taken during one of the training packages.
  • Photos should illustrate the best of “what PanAfGeo means to you” and should include a short description of why this was important to you.
  • The photographs have to be sent in jpg format, high resolution.
  • To be sent to Céline Andrien - andrien@eurogeosurveys.org; cc - tracey@dancyenergy.com

Training Courses

African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) is pleased to announce the introduction of four new courses on Geostatistics, Petroleum Sciences and Resource Estimation in collaboration with Khartoum based Consulting firm called Knowledge and Training Centre (KTC). The course shall be facilitated by the Director of KTC, Dr. M. Zayed Awad, an eminent specialist in the areas of geostatistics, resource evaluation, stratigraphy, reporting, training and mentoring, risk and decision analysis, petroleum economics, project management. The training course will be organized in Dar es Salaam at the AMGC training facilities. Please click here for the courses information.

The 39th Governing Council (GC) Meeting of AMGC in Khartoum, Sudan

The 39th meeting of the Governing Council (GC) of the AMGC was held in Khartoum Sudan from 13 to 18 February 2019. The GC is the highest policy organ of AMGC comprising of the Ministers responsible for Mineral Resources of the members countries, meets annually to oversee the activities of the Centre. In its 39th meeting, the GC deliberated on several issues pertaining to the AMGC activities and among them were the approval of its annual budget and the renewal of the contract of the Director General for a second four-year term.

The New Airborne Data of Mozambique

Funded by the World Bank, the Australian Thomson Aviation company was contracted by Mozambican Government to carry out airborne survey (magnetic and radiometric) in the north of Mozambique covering the area shown below.
The survey was carried out between 2014 and 2015 and the data were delivered to the National Directorate of Geology and Mines (DNGM) in binging of 2016.

The delivery data include:
• Magnetic and elevation data in Geosoft GDB format
• Radiometric data in Geosoft GDB format
• A set of grids in Geosoft GRD format
• A set of digital maps in at scale 1:250.000 in JPG format
• A set of digital maps in at scale 1:50.000 in JPG format
• Magnetic and elevation data in Geosoft XYZ format (ASCII)
• Radiometric data in Geosoft XYZ format (ASCII)

The coordinate system of delivered data are in coordinate system UTM37S/WGS84.
The data are available at DNGM Department of Geological Information Management. Contcts: Mrs Belmira Muchanga, email: bemuchanga@gmail.com.                                 Read more  

Inauguration of Analytical Finger Printing (AFP) Laboratory

The African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) in tripartite collaboration with BGR of Germany and International Conference of African Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) inaugurated a sophisticated Hi Tech Analytical Finger Printing (AFP) Laboratory on 8 June 2018 for analysis of 3Ts conflict minerals to enforce the regional certification mechanism and abate illicit minerals trade in the African Great Lakes Region.

Regional and Country Level Training Workshops on Geo-data Digitization and Mapping of Development Minerals

The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is a three-year, €13.1 million capacity building program of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, financed by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and implemented by UNDP. The aim of the programme is to promote the sustainable development of industrial minerals, construction materials, dimension stones and semi-precious stones in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme supports the capacity development of key stakeholders in the sector such as regulatory agencies and local governments; private stakeholders including small-scale mining enterprises, construction companies, mining and quarrying associations; as well as training centres, universities, civil society organizations and community groups.

The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is implemented at both the regional and country levels. At the regional level, the programme conducts capacity building activities with participants from forty (40) ACP countries (28 in Africa) through regional training workshops, field trips, the production of guidance products and knowledge exchange. At the country level, in depth capacity building is undertaken with six focus countries: Cameroon (Central Africa); Guinea - Conakry (West Africa); Uganda (East Africa); Zambia (Southern Africa); Jamaica (Caribbean); and Fiji (Pacific). Country-level activities include: training; small grants; the production of maps and databases; development of regulations on environment, health and safety; organization of community dialogues, technology fairs and networking events The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme and the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) signed agreement for AMGC to deliver a series of regional and country level training workshops on geological data digitization techniques, field mapping, resource estimation and database management of Development Minerals.  Through this project AMGC will organize and carry out 10 training workshops for participants from the African ACP countries starting from October 2017 up to June 2018.  Through this programme more than 220 professionals are expected to be trained from 29 African countries.

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Contact Us

African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC)
P.O.Box 9573, Kunduchi Beach Area, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Office Tel: +255222650347 Fax: (255 22) 2650319
Business Hours: 8AM–4PM Monday - Friday.