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Artisan Miners

The work of our artisan miners is considerable. In the mud, in the risky underground each person dig and learn to work in a group environment. Everyone in the group share the same motives, getting minerals to satisfy our market channel, preservating the environment and respecting the international safety standards and labor law.

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Semi Refining Unit

Our semi refing unit help us purify the products from our mines and rise the purity of our minerals. We are constantly improving the capacity of this unit to raise the quality and purity of our products before they could enter international market.

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Sales Unit

Our Marketing and Sales team work round the clock and move around the world to market the products of our mines and to make sure we respond well to the calls of out clients. Together with Clearing and forwarding agencies in designated countries they set procedures on how transactions and interations with the clients parties. Reputable law firms help us in maintaining all our procedures legal and safe.

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Clearing and Forwarding

We work with designated third parties Clearing and Forwarding agencies as well as Insurance firms to make sure we deliver to our clients their marchandises. Reputable door to door delivery agencies are used and international standarded world class refineries may be used.

Our Pride

Presently, we are one among the leading exporters of Cobalt, Gold and Copper products in Uganda. We provide direct employment to more than 1500 local Ugandans and we are also source to business opportunities to service sectors – Banking, Insurance, Transport, Sampling and Inspection agencies in and around areas where minerals are mined in Uganda.

Environment and Ecology

Our Mining and Mineral Processing activities will be strictly adhering to our efforts of maintaining harmony with the environmental and ecological balance. We also intend to divert our focus towards the local community development empowering the people with fundamental and essential amenities for a better living.

New Technologies

Tehnologically, the Company is continuously reinforcing its Mining operations by bringing more and more areas under development. In the upcoming years, the Company's Mining Division is targeting a four-fold growth.

Our Vision

Our vision is mainly to be among the privileged Global Market leaders of Mining and Mineral Processing Industry by means of consistent and channelized efforts towards excellence.

Our Mission

We have always focused on Quality and believed that without quality there is no survival. We believe that desired future will create stability in the midst of ever-changing world and business environment. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and capitalizing on strengths and breaking down barriers to development.

Gold production in Uganda has radically increased in the recent past. Today gold sales contribute about 30% of Uganda’s export revenue. With gold deposits spread across the country, Uganda offers companies a great opportunity to invest in gold mining.

So far, exploitation of gold in the country has been concentrated in a few areas such as Karamoja, Kigezi, Busia, Mubende and Buhweju. Most of the gold mined in the past was on a small-scale in the Buhweju basin. However, there has been an increase in the number of big multinational businesses coming in during the past few years. This shows the growing industry and bright future that Uganda has for mining.

In November 2006 a feasibility study confirmed that the mine could be reopened at relatively low cost given its capacity. The required work included purchase of a new trackless equipment fleet, upgrades to pumping and ventilation equipment and some maintenance of the other infrastructure. The plan was to use a combination of the traditional room-and-pillar system and the more modern and effective longhole retreat stoping technique. The concentrator and Moroto metallurgical plant would be progressively upgraded as increasing amounts of ore became available.

Some of the earliest gold discoveries include the Mubende district, Kanungu district and Busia district among others while some of the early mines that were established in the country were the Busitema gold mine and the Kisita Gold Mine. Most of the gold mining in Uganda is still done by small-scale artisanal miners, as has been the case for years.

Most areas have not been properly explored for the purposes of commercial mining. This leaves most gold rich areas to artisans who use traditional methods to mine gold. This shows the great potential that this country offers since there is so much country yet to be surveyed by competent geologists.

Kibilira Minerals LTD was incorporated to help uniting the force of the artisan miners and offer them a platform they could use to trade their production in a fully, licensed, legal way. In an environment where the companies have obtained the license of mining (Rupa, Moroto, Karamoja, Kitumbi), it has been reported they consistently failed to secure free, prior, and informed consent from the local communities before they started operations on communal lands. Kibilira Minerals came to counter that and work in the interests of the common artisan miner, who brings his production and is facilitated to trade it locally and internationally.