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EcoPhoenix Limited: Exploring the Future
Leaders in Nigeria’s New Exploration Initiative
Nigeria is a nation richly endowed with a wide variety of solid minerals. However, many of the known solid mineral occurrences and resources in Nigeria have yet to be fully explored and developed into economically viable mining operations.
EcoPhoenix Limited is Nigeria’s leading private exploration company and was specifically created to operate under the Nigerian Government’s recent new initiatives to reform the Solid Minerals Sector of the economy. These new initiatives include radical legislative and structural reform, as well as the change in the nature of Government’s participation in the Solid Minerals Sector and the introduction of private sector investment incentives. All these factors are designed to diversify and consolidate the nation’s economic base whilst at the same time catalysing the rapid processing of licence applications and the involvement of foreign and local exploration companies.
EcoPhoenix Limited operates two offices in country, the Head Office in Abuja and an Operations Office in Kaduna. The company is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of gold, base metal and energy prospects throughout Nigeria. The company implements international standards for all its exploration activities and engages the services of internationally respected consulting groups and local centres of academic excellence. Our operations are conducted with due recognition of international environmental standards and a desire to utilise the best of local human and physical resources.
Our objective is to explore for gold, base metal and energy deposits, of commercially viable size and grade, which can sustain profitable medium to long-term mining operations. Initially we are targeting areas of known artisan workings or sites of known historical mining activity in order to fast-track the exploration and development of the deposits. We utilise the latest geological, geophysical, and geochemical techniques harnessed with the best data processing capabilities to bring projects on line, in time and on budget.
Our staff has a wide range of experience across disciplines relevant to our core business. With managers who have operated in South Africa, Zambia, Ghana and Kazakhstan, we can boast of extensive experience of working in countries that are willing to encourage the development of their mineral endowment by introducing radical changes to their government’s involvement and governing legislature. Our exploration department is staffed by a team with considerable expertise in remote sensing, GIS, mineral exploration and environmental control. With many years of experience in more than 30 countries between them, the exploration team understands the challenges of working with diverse cultures and in developing nations. Our geological team has experience from across the African continent, backed up by experts in a broad range of geological and mine IT and software skills.
The EcoPhoenix team includes members who have held internationally recognised positions in the industry, such as our Managing Director, who was General Manager at Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ghana for 7 yrs, as well as serving as Chairman of the Ghana Chamber of Mines Technical Committee. He was also a founding member and Vice President of the Mining Association of Kazakhstan.
Our Director of Exploration has spent six years as Field and Remote Sensing Geologist with Hunting Geology and Geophysics UK and eight years with Anglo American Corp SA as Divisional Remote Sensing Geologist.
Our Chief Geologist has operated as a Geological Consultant with CSA International Consulting Group in Liberia, as Exploration Manager with Ashanti Goldfields Exploration in Ethiopia and as a mine and exploration geologist for the Ghana National Manganese Corporation in Ghana.
The team has assembled a portfolio of licences that contains an exciting mixture of precious metal, base metal and energy mineral prospects. Of these licences, the majority are brown field projects with some mineralisation having already been defined by extensive local working or by previous geological investigation.
EcoPhoenix Limited has the right people, in the right place, at the right time with the right equipment to help develop the rich mineral endowment of Nigeria.
