Tag: Eramet Grande Côte

On November 19, 2024, Eramet Grande Côte and JUWI Renewable Energies announced their collaboration to develop a hybrid solar power plant, equipped with a battery energy storage system. The plant will significantly reduce CO2 emissions from Eramet Grande Côte's mineralized sand mine in Diogo, northwestern Senegal. Commissioning is scheduled for 2025. The [...]

Faced with customers who are increasingly concerned about the origin of the products they buy, and more and more sensitive to environmental and social issues, Eramet has launched EraTrace. With this online traceability platform, the Group is increasing its transparency to customers across the entire value chain of its products. Our customers ask us [...]

A truck full of ore winding along a steep mine track. Notes from a piece of music composed 300 years ago, yet immediately catching our attention. This is how the Eramet Group's film begins, a journey across continents and metals, meeting men and women united by the same ambition: to become a [...]

In 2022, Eramet significantly increased its contribution to the economy of the regions in which it operates, up to €3.3 billion compared with €1.8 billion in 2021. The figures for local purchases and payroll also rose, reaching over €2 billion and €0.6 billion respectively. More than 127,940 people have benefited from the Group's social [...]

Eight years after launching its mine, GCO has just returned 85 hectares of revegetated former mining land to the Senegalese Department of Water and Forests – a first for the country.In 2014 began the adventure of Grande Côte Operations (Senegalese subsidiary of the Eramet group), then a brand new mineral sands mine in the heart [...]

Grande Côte Opérations, the Group's Senegalese subsidiary, is now ISO 50 001 certified for its energy management system – a first in Senegal! In April 2021, the company had already obtained its ISO 14 001 certification for its environmental management system, also a first on a national scale for a mining company. This certification was [...]

In Senegal, GCO has been steadily rehabilitating the land traversed by its mobile mine. The aim is not only to repair any damage, but also to preserve biodiversity and involve the local communities in the process. Above: A revegetated area five years after the dredging process was completed  The GCO mine operates in a unique [...]

Grande Côte Opérations (GCO), a subsidiary of the Eramet Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CrossBoundary Energy for the construction of a 13 MW hybrid solar power station with 8 MW battery storage. Dedicated to the Diogo industrial site (north-western Senegal) for the production of mineral sands, this solar power station is scheduled [...]

Guillaume Kurek has been appointed CEO of GCO. 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 obtained from ilmenite, rutile, leucoxene, [...]

...with the new Senegal brochure, which is dedicated to the Senegalese subsidiary and completes the Essentials collection. To download and read. The latest Essential brochure is now available! This time, it is entirely focused on GCO. You will find all essential information on this Group subsidiary, which is specialized in mineral sands and which manages [...]

GCO operates a mine on an artificial basin, whose limited water resources must be preserved for the needs of the neighboring communities. How? With the cutting-edge expertise of hydrogeology. Somewhere along the Atlantic coast of Senegal, in the Niayes region north-east of Dakar, lies a vast expanse of sand, grassland, and market gardens. It is [...]

It’s new, it’s filled with information and pictures and it’s all about GCO: the Senegalese subsidiary’s very first website has just been released. Find out more! Since its creation in the middle of 2000, GCO had never had a website, which is why this is a first for the Group’s Senegalese subsidiary. The idea is [...]

GCO’s Board of Directors has just recently appointed Michel Privé as Chief Executive Officer and Daour Dieng as Chairman of the GCO Board. October 22, GCO’s Board of Directors endorsed the appointment of the following persons: Michel Privé takes the position of Chief Executive Officer, at Diogo. He has joined the Senegalese subsidiary of Eramet [...]