Mineral Feasibility Studies - Geol Mbugua Githae

Gold deposits in Western Kenya

Western Kenya sits on the edge of one of the world’s significant gold provinces. Across Lake Victoria in Tanzania, the

Most people picture mining as a pit, a shaft or a processing plant. Those are the end of a very

Kenya has a long list of mineral occurrences, including gold in the western greenstone belts, and a licensing system that

Kenya is often associated with tourism, tea, and geothermal power, yet its geology also supports a diverse mineral endowment. Gold,

Gold has been mined in Kenya for over a century, and the country’s greenstone belts still attract exploration interest from

Prospecting is the first physical contact between an explorer and the ground. It is the phase in which a licence

A mineral discovery is not a mine. Between the first promising drill intersection and the first shipment of product lies

Every mining project rests on one number: how much valuable material is in the ground, and at what concentration. That

Getting an EIA licence is a milestone, but it is not the finish line. Once a quarry is producing, a

Mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) is the process of combining multiple spatial datasets to produce a map showing how likely each

Western Kenya sits on the northern edge of the Lake Victoria Goldfields, one of Africa’s most productive gold provinces. Here,

Every mine begins as an idea on a map. Between that first idea and a producing operation lies a long,