African Minerals and Geosciences Centre - African Minerals and Geo-sciences centre

African Minerals and Geosciences Centre - African Minerals and Geo-sciences centre Welcome AMGC Welcome to a Centre of Excellence and Significance able to provide specialized services for the mineral industries and the overall development of the sector in the continent Brief History Vision, Mission & Core values FAQs AMGC Organisation Structure Research & Projects Quality management system Departments Laboratory Services Chemical & Environmental Mineralogy, Petrology & Gemmology Mineral Processing Industrial Minerals AFP Laboratory Geo-information Training Courses Member States Angola Comoros Ethiopia Kenya Mozambique Sudan Tanzania Uganda South Sudan African Minerals and Geosciences Centre Minerals For Development On 26 January 2026, the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) had the privilege of hosting a familiarization visit from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania, the host country of the Centre. The delegation was led by Ms. Ellen Maduhu, Assistant Director and Head of the African Union Section, Department of Africa, and accompanied by Mr. Reginald Kisaka, Desk Officer, Department of Africa. The purpose of the visit was to introduce the officials to the mineral services offered by the Centre, showcase its analytical infrastructure, discuss the challenges it faces, and strengthen the diplomatic and working relationship between the Centre and the United Republic of Tanzania. This collaboration aims to foster closer ties with both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation and the Ministry of Minerals Event of Raising the South Sudan Flag at the Centre as Member State number nine (9) Martin Gama Abucha, Minister of Mining, and RSS Event of Raising the South Sudan Flag at the Centre as Member State number nine (9) Martin Gama Abucha, Minister of Mining, and RSS Mr. Ibrahim Shaddad, the Director General of the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC), paid this morning, 18 December 2024, a work visit to H.E. Hassan Ali Joho, the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy, and Maritime Affairs of Kenya, the current Chairman of AMGC Governing Council. The meeting was attended by Mr. Elijah Mwangi, the Principal Secretary of State Department for Mining at the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, Kenya, who is a distinguished member of AMGC Standing Committee for Officials. Pursue to a courtesy visit paid by Mr. Ibrahim Shaddad, the Director General of the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) to the esteemed Embassy of Republic of the Sudan in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 26 November 2024, H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdalla Abd Elhameed, the newly assigned Sudanese Ambassdor in Dar es Salaam paid a familiarization visit to AMGC on November 11, 2024. The African Minerals & Geosciences Centre (AMGC) was honored by a fimilrization visit from a high level delegation arrived from Nairobi, Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to attend official opening of Tanzania’s Mining and Investment Conference (TIMC) 2024. The delegation was led by the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy, and Maritime Affairs H.E Hassan Ali Joho in his capacity, the current Chairman of AMGC Governing Council. H.E. Hassan Ali Joho was accompanied by Mr. Elijah Mwangi, the Principal Secretary of State Department for Mining at the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, Kenya, who is a distinguished member of AMGC Standing Committee for Officials. News & Updates Upcoming Events News & Updates Press Releases Research Activities Announcements Upcoming Events AMGC in brief Details Written by lawi Published: 03 January 2017 The African Minerals and Geo-sciences Centre (AMGC), formerly known as Southern and Eastern African Mineral Centre (SEAMIC) was established in 1977 principally to carry out regional geological surveying and to provide minerals exploration and consulting services for programs of its founding member states, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique were the founding members, later joined by Uganda, Angola, and the Comoros. Kenya became a member in 2006, followed by Sudan in 2010 and South Sudan in 2024. In 2007, the ministerial meeting in Maputo decided that membership is open to all African states. To reflect this expansion of the scope, the name of the Centre changed to African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) starting from July 2015. In 1991 AMGC moved its operations to an extensive new site in Dar es Salaam with a mission to “Promote socio-economic and environmentally responsible mineral sector development in Africa”. To meet the new demands of the mineral sector stakeholders the Centre diversified its services to provide a hightech, state-of-the-art minerals analytical laboratory services and geoinformation data processing activities, complimented with the provision of short term specialized trainings. The trainings were provided under GEODESA, GISAfrica and AEGOS and other smaller projects with funding from the EU, UNDP, UNIDO and the governments of Japan, India, Belgium and France. The availability of the Centre’s ISO 9000:2008 certified analytical and data processing services at a closer proximity to the exploration and development sites has significantly eased the burden of the investors in conclusively defining areas of mineral potential and hence accelerating mineral discovery and development to benefit the member states national economies, provide employment, reduce poverty and improve the livelihood of its people and to contribute to growth of their respective national economies. The African Minerals and Geo sciences Centre (AMGC) is an African mineral service provider with the following mission, vision, mandate and objectives. VISION: To be a pioneer and leader in the provision of mineral services in Africa MISSION: To promote socio-economic and environmentally responsible mineral development in Africa MANDATE: To be a Centre of Excellence and Significance able to provide specialized services for the mineral industries and the overall development of the sector in region. AMGC MAIN OBJECTIVE ARE:- - To facilitate the co-ordination, harmonization and access to mineral resources development and provisions of support services in Africa. - To establish, where relevant, Africa networks of programmes and services and to promote Africa collaboration. - To promote indigenous mineral based industrialization. - To promote awareness on potential of the mineral sector's contribution to the economic and social development in Africa. - To promote responsible investment and free flow of capital, labor, goods and services for mining sector development in Africa. - To facilitate the promotion of mining prospects with the highest potential for economic and social impact and - To facilitate the harmonization of mineral sector's policies and legislation in Africa AREAS OF EXPERTISE AMGC is an ISO 9001-2015 certified, high tech minerals laboratory, training and consultancy services provider for Africa . Private companies, small scale miners, R&D institutions and the member states are its major clients. AMGC has 5 unique laboratories that cater for various services to the mining sector and these are: Chemical and Environmental Lab Analyses various types of geological & environmental materials applying wet chemistry, XRF, XRD, ICP and mercury analytical techniques. Mineral Processing and Small Scale Mining Lab Conducts mineral beneficiation services to provide basic data that is required for ore reserve estimation that would enable the economic viability of a mine. Mineralogy, Petrology and Gemmology Lab Deals with testing and identification of rocks, minerals, clays and sediments and carries out gemstones and diamonds identification, grading, certification. Industrial Minerals Application Lab Produces ceramic products & conducts product design and ceramics prototype production Geo-information Lab Provides GIS, remote sensing applications and Geo-informatics data processing and consultancy services. All the Laboratories Provide training and consultancy in the above mentioned fields. Core Values Details Written by lawi Published: 03 January 2017 Supporting the mineral sector to benefit the African nation prosper Improving the capacity of African nations to enable developing their mineral resources Availing up-to-date technology to the African mineral resources sector Advocate increased partnership among African nations to lift up each other Support for the under-privileged sectors of the community in the mineral resources sector to improve their benefits from their activities. Our Services Geoinformation Services Data Capture and Analogue to Digital Conversion Data Compilation and GIS Data Standardization Map Preparation and Publication Data Dissemination Data Acquisition and Exploration Surveys Training Services Training courses are offered by the Centre, scheduled or upon request tailor-made, on different topics related to the mineral industry. Some of the course modules are developed internally and others are developed based on requests from customers. Laboratory Services Analysis of Precious & base Metals Water Analysis Wet Chemistry Mineralogical and Petrological Gemmological and Gem cutting Sample Preparation and Ore Testing Industrial Minerals Applications & Ceramics Feature News & Events AMGC Policy Organs Meeting New Training Courses The Mineralogy, Petrology Department is happy to announce the following new training courses:- 1. Gemstone/Mineral Estimation and Valuation 2. Jewellery Design 3. Gemstone Exploration and Gem Safari's For further information please contact matokeo@seamic.org The 29th Colloquium of African Geology CAG29 The Colloquium of African Geology (CAG) is a major biennial meeting organized under the auspices of the Geological Society of Africa (GSAF), where earth scientists globally have the opportunities to present their research results on topics related to African geology and surrounding areas. The event will take place on 26 - 29 September, 2023 in Windhoek, Namibia. For further information please contact cag29@mme.gov.na, cag29.whk@gmail.com or+264 61 2848398 PanAfGeo Photography Competition PanAfGeo is running a Photography Competition for all participants of the PanAfGeo project. The theme for your photos is “What PanAfGeo means to you?” and can include entries on how you think PanAfGeo benefits you, your Survey, your Society or your Country. Ten finalists will see their photos printed in high resolution, framed and exhibited during the final meeting of the project in 2024. Winners will be announced during that meeting and on the PanAfGeo website and social media. Key information: Deadline: 22nd of March 2024 The contestants must have been involved in any way in PanAfGeo phase 2, and the photograph must be taken during one of the training packages. Photos should illustrate the best of “what PanAfGeo means to you” and should include a short description of why this was important to you. The photographs have to be sent in jpg format, high resolution. To be sent to Céline Andrien - andrien@eurogeosurveys.org ; cc - tracey@dancyenergy.com Training Courses African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) is pleased to announce the introduction of four new courses on Geostatistics, Petroleum Sciences and Resource Estimation in collaboration with Khartoum based Consulting firm called Knowledge and Training Centre (KTC). The course shall be facilitated by the Director of KTC, Dr. M. Zayed Awad, an eminent specialist in the areas of geostatistics, resource evaluation, stratigraphy, reporting, training and mentoring, risk and decision analysis, petroleum economics, project management. The training course will be organized in Dar es Salaam at the AMGC training facilities. Please click here for the courses information. The 39th Governing Council (GC) Meeting of AMGC in Khartoum, Sudan The 39th meeting of the Governing Council (GC) of the AMGC was held in Khartoum Sudan from 13 to 18 February 2019. The GC is the highest policy organ of AMGC comprising of the Ministers responsible for Mineral Resources of the members countries, meets annually to oversee the activities of the Centre. In its 39th meeting, the GC deliberated on several issues pertaining to the AMGC activities and among them were the approval of its annual budget and the renewal of the contract of the Director General for a second four-year term. The New Airborne Data of Mozambique Funded by the World Bank, the Australian Thomson Aviation company was contracted by Mozambican Government to carry out airborne survey (magnetic and radiometric) in the north of Mozambique covering the area shown below. The survey was carried out between 2014 and 2015 and the data were delivered to the National Directorate of Geology and Mines (DNGM) in binging of 2016. The delivery data include: • Magnetic and elevation data in Geosoft GDB format • Radiometric data in Geosoft GDB format • A set of grids in Geosoft GRD format • A set of digital maps in at scale 1:250.000 in JPG format • A set of digital maps in at scale 1:50.000 in JPG format • Magnetic and elevation data in Geosoft XYZ format (ASCII) • Radiometric data in Geosoft XYZ format (ASCII) The coordinate system of delivered data are in coordinate system UTM37S/WGS84. The data are available at DNGM Department of Geological Information Management. Contcts: Mrs Belmira Muchanga, email: bemuchanga@gmail.com Inauguration of Analytical Finger Printing (AFP) Laboratory The African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) in tripartite collaboration with BGR of Germany and International Conference of African Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) inaugurated a sophisticated Hi Tech Analytical Finger Printing (AFP) Laboratory on 8 June 2018 for analysis of 3Ts conflict minerals to enforce the regional certification mechanism and abate illicit minerals trade in the African Great Lakes Region. Regional and Country Level Training Workshops on Geo-data Digitization and Mapping of Development Minerals The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is a three-year, €13.1 million capacity building program of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, financed by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and implemented by UNDP. The aim of the programme is to promote the sustainable development of industrial minerals, construction materials, dimension stones and semi-precious stones in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme supports the capacity development of key stakeholders in the sector such as regulatory agencies and local governments; private stakeholders including small-scale mining enterprises, construction companies, mining and quarrying associations; as well as training centres, universities, civil society organizations and community groups. The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is implemented at both the regional and country levels. At the regional level, the programme conducts capacity building activities with participants from forty (40) ACP countries (28 in Africa) through regional training workshops, field trips, the production of guidance products and knowledge exchange. At the country level, in depth capacity building is undertaken with six focus countries: Cameroon (Central Africa); Guinea - Conakry (West Africa); Uganda (East Africa); Zambia (Southern Africa); Jamaica (Caribbean); and Fiji (Pacific). Country-level activities include: training; small grants; the production of maps and databases; development of regulations on environment, health and safety; organization of community dialogues, technology fairs and networking events The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme and the African Minerals and Geosciences Centre (AMGC) signed agreement for AMGC to deliver a series of regional and country level training workshops on geological data digitization techniques, field mapping, resource estimation and database management of Development Minerals.  Through this project AMGC will organize and carry out 10 training workshops for participants from the African ACP countries starting from October 2017 up to June 2018.  Through this programme more than 220 professionals are expected to be trained from 29 African countries. 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