SENET wins plant contract for Yanfolila

Hummingbird Resources, the multi asset gold exploration and development company, following a competitive tender process, has appointed SENET in Johannesburg, South Africa, by way of Letter of Intent (LOI) to commence engineering of the Yanfolila processing plant and associated infrastructure.  SENET has agreed to commence engineering services under the LOI until such time as the contract has been drafted and accepted by both parties, thus maintaining the fast track schedule.

Dan Betts, CEO of Hummingbird, said: “After a competitive tender process where we received expressions of interest from a number of globally recognised consultancies, we are very pleased to have appointed SENET as consultant for our Yanfolila project.  They have extensive experience in West Africa, as well as over three years working on the Yanfolila project for Gold Fields before Hummingbird acquired it, and will complement our project development team very well.”

The Yanfolila Project Development Team is headed by Charles Graham. He is a mechanical engineer with 15 years’ experience in mining projects and played a significant role in the development of the Dikulushi (Phase I) and Ruashi Etoile (Phase I) copper projects in DRC, Afrikander Lease CIL gold and Smokey Hills platinum projects in South Africa, together with the Loulo and Syama gold projects in Mali.

Most recently he has been project director on a number of projects for Gold Fields.  Charles has led the technical studies on the Yanfolila project for over two years which has included most latterly the de-risking study.

Hummingbird Resources is a West African gold explorer and developer, which listed on AIM in December 2010 with a maiden N143-101 compliant Resource of 0.8 Moz gold in Liberia. Since IPO the company has significantly grown its initial resource to 4.2 Moz at its Dugbe 1 project in Liberia.  With the recent acquisition of Gold Fields’ gold assets in Mali, Hummingbird is now a multi-project, near-term producer with 6 Moz of gold and 5,000 km2 of exploration ground.