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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.
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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Tanzania elected Chair of Governing Council of African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC)

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Tanzania has been elected chair of the Governing Council of African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC).
The appointment was made over the council’s 36th annual meeting in Addis Ababa. Tanzania was represented by the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca) and its ambassador to Ethiopia, Ms Naimi Hamza Aziz, who attended the meeting on behalf of the Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo.
Addressing the council, Ms Aziz urged member states to consider the development of other strategic minerals such as graphite, lithium and rare earth elements (REEs), which she said were not only economically viable but also important.
“The mining sector is seriously affected by the drop of mineral prices in the global market especially for precious and base metals which are mostly mined by our countries. The decline of mineral prices has resulted to low exploration activities to member states, especially my country, which has led to the decline of income to the centre,” she said.
In order for member states to catch up with fast growing technologies, the ambassador said it was time for AMGC invested in research and development.
Ms Aziz said that member states should endeavour to make AMGC a truly pan African centre of excellence and to achieve this more needs be done in terms of marketing, which would increase the centre’s visibility and capability and promote the tremendous work it does.
“It is therefore crucial that member states pay their respective annual contributions to the centre in order to allow it to operate more efficiently and effectively and successfully implement its programmes and activities.”

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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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