UNCTAD
17th Africa OILGASMINE, Khartoum, 23-26 November 2015
Extractive Industries and Sustainable Job Creation
Developing local skills in Sudan's extractive industry
By
Osama Abdel Karim Aloub,
Technical Adviser (Metallurgy), Rida Mining Group, Sudan
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
the views of UNCTAD.
Republic of Sudan
Ministry of Minerals
Rida Mining Company
By
Osama A. Aloub
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CONTENTS
• GENERAL OVERVIEW
• MINE INITIATION HISTORY
• RIDA PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
• DEVELOPPING SKILL OF INDIVIDUALS
• ELEMENTS OF TRAINING PLAN
• HEALTH & SAFETY SUBJECTS
• ARTISANAL TAILING REPROCESSING PLANTS
• CREATED JOBS & STATISTICS
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GENERAL OVERVIEW
Rida Mining, a private national company
pioneer in mining and mineral extractive
industry and currently operating three plants:
Assalam Proper Mine (Abidiya Area) , to
extract gold from auriferous deposit.
Chromite ore production, Ingassena, Blue
Nile State.
6 Gold Extractive Plants from Artisanal
Tailings within 4 states of Sudan.
The company employs > 2000 person to
operate these activities.
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RIDA MINING CONCESSION – BLOCK 23
‫منجم‬
‫السالم‬
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MINE INITIATION HISTORY
Rida Mining, financing & performing the whole project life cycle
depending only on experienced and technically skilled Sudanese staff to
carry out the followings:
 Geological and exploration.
 Reserve estimation & Mine Optimization .
 Metallurgy & processing technique to extract gold.
 Engineering, design parameters and process flowchart.
 Feasibility Study, equipment procurement.
 Construction and gold production November 2009.
All these studies were carried by Sudanese expert except the
Engineering phase which was performed in cooperation with ( Time
Mining SA).
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RIDA PROJECT LIFE CYCLE 2000 - 2009
18%
Commissioning and Start up
12%
Issuing of Definitive Feasibility Study.
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12%
Develop the basic Engineering concept
2%
Selection of Process method
4%
Performing metallurgical test on the ore,
6%
Calculating Ore Reserve and Block model
Detailed geological studies & drilling program.
26%
Geological and exploration, works
21%
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0.5
1
1.5
Number of Years
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2
2.5
Mining Project Initiation Cycle
Open Pit
Model
Open Pit Ore
mining
Bullion
Bar
Crushing
ADR
Heap
Stacking
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DEVELOPPING SKILL OF INDIVIDUALS
Rida is devoted to have highly skilled personnel to
meet the company`s current and future manpower
needs cycled as:
 Pre-employment training programs for newly
hired university graduates and inexperienced.
 On the Job training, teaching individual how to
perform his job
 Rotation Assignment, rotate an employee within
his department or in different location.
 Individual Skill analysis to retain the position
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RIDA MINING SKILL DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
Inexperienced
Employees
Rotation
Assignment
Performance
Appraisal
Preemployment
Training
On the Job
Training
Skilled
Employee
Apprentice
Experienced
Employees
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ELEMENTS OF TRAINING PLAN
Class Room Training
Site Visit Training
Lecture with aid of PowerPoint
presentation
Guided Visit to the designated plant
Explanation of the operation manuals Visits to one or two operating plants
Familiarization with the process
flowchart & layout drawings.
Visit of the respective section of the
plant where person is assigned to
work
Familiarization with particular
equipments through documents
Workshop hands with particular
equipments disassembled
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HEALTH & SAFETY SUBJECTS
General Health & Safety training
Technical equipment training
 Protective Personal Equipment (PPE)
 Handling dangerous substances
 Good housekeeping
 Recycling water monitoring
Cover a range of issues identified through
consultation
Targeted and tailored courses to suit needs
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UM DORMANMINING COMPANY
( BLOCK 23 CONCESSION) ASSALAM HEAP LEACH OPERATION
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RIDA MINING - UM DORMAN COMPANY
ASSALAM MINE JOB CREATION RATE
800
700
600
N
o
.
500
o
f
E
400
m
p
l
o
y 300
e
e
s
200
702
434
100
137
104
27
0
Trainee
Graduates
Technicians
Employees Category
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Operators
Total
BLOCK 23 MINE GOLD EXTRACTIVE PLANT
ASSALAM MINE GOLD ANNUAL PRODUCTION
7000
6000
5000
G
o
l 4000
d
I
n
3000
K
g
2000
1000
0
2009
2010
2011
2012
PRODUCTION YEAR
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2013
2014
Total
ARTISANAL MINER TAILINGS DUMPS
• Rida Mining is commissioned to develop
suitable Extractive Processing techniques
• It has successfully developped reprocessing
plants mostly using Carbon-In- Leach (CIL)
& Heap Leaching methods to extract gold.
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ARTISANAL TAILING REPROCESSING PLANTS OWNED
BY RIDA MINING
Red Sea State
Wedian CIL –
250 t/d
Northern State
Al Hsour Company
Kodorma CIL 1500
Khanag HL - 1000
River Nile
State
Rida CIL - 1500
Um Durman
River NileState
Sedon CIL
300 t/d
River Nile State
Exseer H L -4000t/d
Exseer CIL- 3000t/d
Al Gadarif State
Abu Regia CIL
1500 t/d
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RIDA GROUP DIFFERENT COMPANIES JOB CREATION RATE
800
700
600
E
m
p
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o
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s
702
477
507
317
500
400
237
N
u
m
b
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r
434
273
177
99
300
16
26
Abu Regia
31
58
86
29
219
25
176
117
10
200
62
134
Al Hamdeen
137
104
Al Hasoor
100
Exseer
27
Um Dorman
0
Trainee
Graduates
Technicians
Operators
Categories of Employees
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Total Employees
C
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m
p
a
n
y
N
a
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GOLD PRODUCTION STATISTIC
RIDA COMPANIES PRODUCTION STATISTICS
January to August 2015
4000
3500
3000
G
o 2500
l
d
I
n
2000
K 1500
g
1000
500
0
Gold In Feed
Gold Produced in Kg
Um Durman HL
3560
1700
Exseer HL
2750
1446
Sedon HL
1440
650
Abu Regia CIL
505
450
Company Name
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Al Hsour CIL
260
235
Al Hsour HL
320
158
Material Handling & Milling Circuit
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1500 t/d Carbon-In-Leach Plant to Retreat the Artisanal
tailing at Kodorma , northern State, Sudan
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GOLD REFINING EQUIPMENT
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PRODUCED GOLD BAR
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Exseer Mining Company – River Nile state
Abu Hamad 4000 t/d Artisanl Heap Leach Plant
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