Category: Press release

True to its commitment to diversity and inclusion, Eramet Grande Côte organized the third edition of its Women’s Seminar on May 22 and 23, 2025. This key event, which brought together the company’s 137 female employees, has become an unmissable annual rendezvous since its first edition in 2022. The seminar offered a privileged space [...]

Eramet Grande Côte confirms its role as a major player in the country’s economic and social development, with a total economic contribution of 122 billion CFA francs to Senegal in 2024. Through sustained investment in local employment, national purchasing and taxation, as well as a reinforced commitment to corporate social responsibility, more than 20,000 [...]

DIOGO, April 04, 2025 On Thursday April 03, the mining company opened its doors to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Led by its Chairman, Mr. Thialy Faye, the EITI delegation was accompanied by members of the mine’s neighboring communities and activists. The visit was an opportunity to foster constructive exchanges and a better understanding of [...]

Lompoul sur Mer, March 27, 2025On Tuesday March 25, 2025, Eramet Grande Cote inaugurated the Lompoul sur Mer Community Information Office, in the presence of the Prefect of Kébémer, the Sub-Prefect of Ndande, the Mayors of the surrounding communes and their inhabitants, village chiefs and Imams.The opening of this office confirms Eramet Grande Côte’s approach [...]

Eramet Grande Côte Press Release Dakar, January 10, 2024 For several weeks now, Eramet Grande Côte has been the target of a destabilization campaign on social media and in the media, spreading serious and false accusations aimed at discrediting our company. Eramet Grande Côte operates in Senegal in full compliance with the country's laws and [...]

Diogo, November 19, 2024 Eramet Grande Côte, Diogo, Senegal, has partnered with JUWI Renewable Energies (www.juwi.co.za), a global renewable energy company, to develop an off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage solution for large-scale industrial operations. The 20 MWp solar and 11 MWh battery project, which has reached financial close, is designed to reduce [...]

Diogo, October 24, 2024 On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Mining Convention, the company is changing its visual identity for the first time in its history. The commercial name of the world's 4th largest producer of mineral sands becomes Eramet Grande Côte. With its signature tagline, Committed to [...]

Senegal: 200 Women Entrepreneurs Celebrate the First Graduation of the "Femmes d'Avenir" Program with Eramet and WIA Philanthropy Thiès, May 31, 2024 – Eramet and Women In Africa (WIA) celebrated with 200 women entrepreneurs from the "Femmes d'Avenir" program the completion of their first year of training. Launched in October 2023, this program, anchored [...]

Frédéric Zanklan has been appointed Managing Director of GCO. This appointment follows the Board of Directors' meeting held on March 15, 2024. He succeeds Guillaume Kurek, who held the position for nearly three years. A graduate of the École Supérieure Polytechnique de Thiès, Frédéric Zanklan has an extensive international career in the field of [...]

Eramet and Women in Africa Continue Their Program to Support Women's Entrepreneurship in Africa, Inaugurating the First Class of Femmes d'Avenir in Senegal. Dakar, October 19, 2023 - Eramet and Women In Africa (WIA) officially inaugurated the Femmes d'Avenir program at an opening ceremony at the Cercle de l'Union in Dakar. This event marks a [...]

Dakar, September 29, 2023Dakar will host the 7th edition of the International Mining Exhibition (SIM) from October 3 to 5 at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center in Diamniadio. Under the high patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Senegal, the largest mining event in West Africa brings together industry players to [...]

Paris, May 11, 2023 Eramet has chosen the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) to assess the CSR performance of its operational sites. This international, objective and independent standard allows audited activities to be certified as "responsible" according to the most demanding criteria. After a self-assessment carried out at the end of 2022, Eramet [...]

Diogo, February 23, 2023 GCO: Slight production decline in 2022, the company invests to prepare for the future Production slightly decreased due to a lower average grade on the mining area, however, offset by the commissioning of the dry extraction unit at the end of 2022. In an uncertain market, GCO has invested in [...]

SENEGAL, October 10, 2022 Grande Côte Opérations (GCO), a subsidiary of the Eramet mining and metallurgical group, has launched its dry extraction and mineral sand processing (SDM) unit within the mining concession entrusted by the State of Senegal. The SDM creates 104 jobs, optimizes and increases production by 10%. #BeBenchmark After 11 months of intensive [...]

Diogo, September 08, 2022 Grande Côte Opérations, a subsidiary of the French mining and metallurgical group Eramet, is investing €30 million in new mineral sands processing equipment GCO is returning 85 hectares of revegetated land. A first in Senegal that marks the company's commitment to preserving the environment and biodiversity #PeopleFirst GCO has acquired [...]

La production de sables minéralisés de Grande Côte Opérations (GCO) a continué à progresser en 2021 pour atteindre un niveau record de 804 000t (+ 6%). Une bonne performance opérationnelle des équipes dans un environnement de prix certes favorable, mais partiellement compensés par l’augmentation du coût du fret et de l’énergie.   L’ilménite représente [...]

Guillaume Kurek has been appointed CEO of GCO, effective August 12, 2021. The Grande Côte mineral sands mine, a Senegalese subsidiary of Eramet, is located north of Dakar on a concession approximately 100 kilometers in length. Its industrial facilities include a dredge and a floating concentration unit, a plant for separating the heavy minerals [...]