Since it was founded, AGB2A-GIC has committed 313 million dollars to the infrastructure that carries its activity and serves the communities of Boffa and Fria. This cumulative figure covers industrial works (mining roads, port terminal) as well as facilities intended directly for the neighbouring populations.
A mining road does not only carry trucks: it also connects villages that were not connected before.
Three mining roads, one port
Three dedicated road routes link the extraction plateaus to the Port of Kokaya: 46 kilometres from the Binton mine, 41 from Woenkhory, 34 from Kalema. Used continuously by a fleet of 209 eighty-tonne trucks, they were designed away from public road networks to limit disturbance and risk in the localities they pass through.
At the end of these roads, the Port of Kokaya is the heaviest investment: a mining terminal with two million tonnes of storage capacity, two fixed seventy-metre conveyors and a shiploader able to load three thousand tonnes per hour.
What goes back to the communities
Under the statutory community development levy provided for by the Guinean Mining Code, 823,400 dollars are devoted to infrastructure for the benefit of neighbouring populations: water boreholes and community roads. This envelope, separate from industrial investment, answers a legal obligation that the company meets in full.
To this are added the works undertaken over the years: the refurbishment of a school together with the funding of its teaching staff, drinking-water boreholes, and direct food aid to families.
An investment that continues
The project timeline provides for infrastructure works to continue through 2026, ahead of an extraction phase running to 2036. Progressive rehabilitation of the sites does not wait for the end of the project's life: it is already under way and runs to 2037.
