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Senegal
- Country summary
- Permits
- Exploration programme
- Exploration results
- Work complete
- Work in progress
- Work planned
Exploration programme
- January 2009 – March 2009
- Initial reconnaissance
- Desktop review of existing data
- April 2009 – December 2009
- Site establishment
- First phase field work
- Soil sampling completed over priority 1 area
- Mapping
- January 2010 – March 2010
- IP survey of gold permit completed over priority 1 area
- IP data interpretation of gold permit
- Desktop studies of the Saint Louis permit completed
- April 2010 onwards
- IP survey extension of gold permit
- Ground magnetic surveys of gold permit
- Drilling of gold permit
- Reconnaissance of the Saint Louis permit
Location map
TransAfrika has two permits, one for gold and the other for mineral sands. The gold permit is located near Souroundou, on the Mali border. The heavy mineral sands permit is located along the western coastline. The permit areas total some 342 000ha.