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Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The desert oasis, the future tourist site built by GCO ERAMET on more than 300ha south of Lompoul, is supposed to allow operators who have been expropriated in the Lompoul desert to resettle.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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In a copy of a communication file from September 2013 called XIBAARU GCO, the echo of GCO, we find on the 2nd page the commitments for the rehabilitation of the plant cover. A rehabilitation of the areas concerned respecting biodiversity and the revegetation of the soils in the same way had to take place, unfortunately this is not the case today.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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View of an area revegetated by ERAMET GCO after the passage of the mine in the vicinity of Foth on December 22, 2024. ERAMET GCO is committed to the government to rehabilitate the areas concerned while respecting biodiversity and to revegetate the soils identically, but the revegetation process on areas formerly planted with trees and cultivated seems to be a failure.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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View of an area revegetated by ERAMET GCO after the passage of the mine in the vicinity of Foth on December 22, 2024. ERAMET GCO is committed to the government to rehabilitate the areas concerned while respecting biodiversity and to revegetate the soils identically, but the revegetation process on areas formerly planted with trees and cultivated seems to be a failure.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0303108.jpg
Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0303107.jpg
Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0303106.jpg
Pape Thiaw, 38 years old farmer and market gardener in Lompoul sur Mer in his field on December 21, 2024. GCO took 3 fields from him, 2 of which he received compensation which he considers to be too low. He fought to keep his land but he finally found himself in police custody for 3 days following a dispute with Water and Forests before being imprisoned for a time with two of his friends. His equipment worth more than 3 million FCFA was seized and not returned until today. Previously he employed 18 people, he had invested a lot but now he only has 7 employees.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The fishing quay of Lompoul /sea located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, December 21, 2024. The fishing sector, which was already suffering from the opening of fishing licenses to Chinese and European Union vessels, has experienced numerous difficulties since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO. The activity of the mine and the work for its exploitation have had significant repercussions on the sector, in particular with problems linked to energy and recurring water cuts. Today there is a lack of labor and young workers, some have preferred to go to work in the fields, others to go to sea.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0303102.jpg
The fishing quay of Lompoul /sea located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, December 21, 2024. The fishing sector, which was already suffering from the opening of fishing licenses to Chinese and European Union vessels, has experienced numerous difficulties since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO. The activity of the mine and the work for its exploitation have had significant repercussions on the sector, in particular with problems linked to energy and recurring water cuts. Today there is a lack of labor and young workers, some have preferred to go to work in the fields, others to go to sea.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The fishing quay of Lompoul /sea located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, December 21, 2024. The fishing sector, which was already suffering from the opening of fishing licenses to Chinese and European Union vessels, has experienced numerous difficulties since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO. The activity of the mine and the work for its exploitation have had significant repercussions on the sector, in particular with problems linked to energy and recurring water cuts. Today there is a lack of labor and young workers, some have preferred to go to work in the fields, others to go to sea.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Gayo Ba, member of the local artisanal fishing council (CLPA) poses in a canoe along the beach of Lompoul/mer located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, on December 21, 2024. He deplores the multiple problems affecting the fishing sector since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO as well as the opening of fishing permits to Chinese and European Union vessels. His village, long spared from sea departures and irregular immigration, is no longer so. A few months ago, he intervened at sea with a captain to turn around 2 canoes in difficulty with more than 100 people on board each. He regrets the lack of labor and young hands.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The fishing quay of Lompoul /sea located on the Grande Côte in the Louga Region, December 21, 2024. The fishing sector, which was already suffering from the opening of fishing licenses to Chinese and European Union vessels, has experienced numerous difficulties since the arrival of the mine operated by GCO. The activity of the mine and the work for its exploitation have had significant repercussions on the sector, in particular with problems linked to energy and recurring water cuts. Today there is a lack of labor and young workers, some have preferred to go to work in the fields, others to go to sea.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Hassane Diop, the village chief of Diogo at home in the living room of his family home, December 20, 2024. Since 2004, through various committees, first his father then himself, have been in charge of raising the grievances of the population of Diogo and negotiating the compensation promised by the company Grande Côte Opération (GCO) as part of the installation of the mine. Even today, 10 years later, he regrets all the unkept promises, particularly with regard to the employment of young people in the commune by GCO, the unrealized infrastructure such as the market, the football stadium, access to drinking water, the bus station built much too far away but also the school transport buses which were to bring children to school and who today are still obliged to travel the 4.5 km on foot, back and forth every day to study. He notes that only a health post in Foth, a health center in Diogo sur mer and the resettlement villages have been built.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Hassane Diop, the village chief of Diogo at home in the living room of his family home, December 20, 2024. Since 2004, through various committees, first his father then himself, have been in charge of raising the grievances of the population of Diogo and negotiating the compensation promised by the company Grande Côte Opération (GCO) as part of the installation of the mine. Even today, 10 years later, he regrets all the unkept promises, particularly with regard to the employment of young people in the commune by GCO, the unrealized infrastructure such as the market, the football stadium, access to drinking water, the bus station built much too far away but also the school transport buses which were to bring children to school and who today are still obliged to travel the 4.5 km on foot, back and forth every day to study. He notes that only a health post in Foth, a health center in Diogo sur mer and the resettlement villages have been built.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Hassane Diop, the village chief of Diogo at home in the living room of his family home, December 20, 2024. Since 2004, through various committees, first his father then himself, have been in charge of raising the grievances of the population of Diogo and negotiating the compensation promised by the company Grande Côte Opération (GCO) as part of the installation of the mine. Even today, 10 years later, he regrets all the unkept promises, particularly with regard to the employment of young people in the commune by GCO, the unrealized infrastructure such as the market, the football stadium, access to drinking water, the bus station built much too far away but also the school transport buses which were to bring children to school and who today are still obliged to travel the 4.5 km on foot, back and forth every day to study. He notes that only a health post in Foth, a health center in Diogo sur mer and the resettlement villages have been built.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Hassane Diop, the village chief of Diogo (center) at home in the living room of his family home, December 20, 2024. Since 2004, through various committees, first his father then himself, have been in charge of raising the grievances of the population of Diogo and negotiating the compensation promised by the company Grande Côte Opération (GCO) as part of the installation of the mine. Even today, 10 years later, he regrets all the unkept promises, particularly with regard to the employment of young people in the commune by GCO, the unrealized infrastructure such as the market, the football stadium, access to drinking water, the bus station built much too far away but also the school transport buses which were to bring children to school and who today are still obliged to travel the 4.5 km on foot, back and forth every day to study. He notes that only a health post in Foth, a health center in Diogo sur mer and the resettlement villages have been built.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian in the living room of the family home of the village chief of Diogo on December 20, 2024. Maïmouna owned a family field where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Dozens of people are busy harvesting cabbages in the market gardens located just in front of the entrance to the GCO site life base in Diogo, on December 20, 2024. The commune of Diogo is located in the Niayes zone, a 200 km long coastal strip between Dakar and Saint-Louis which alone provides nearly 80% of Senegalese national market garden production. Market gardening, which employs practically all segments of the population, is one of the main activities in the Niayes area.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Dozens of people are busy harvesting cabbages in the market gardens located just in front of the entrance to the GCO site life base in Diogo, on December 20, 2024. The commune of Diogo is located in the Niayes zone, a 200 km long coastal strip between Dakar and Saint-Louis which alone provides nearly 80% of Senegalese national market garden production. Market gardening, which employs practically all segments of the population, is one of the main activities in the Niayes area.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0303087.jpg
Dozens of people are busy harvesting cabbages in the market gardens located just in front of the entrance to the GCO site life base in Diogo, on December 20, 2024. The commune of Diogo is located in the Niayes zone, a 200 km long coastal strip between Dakar and Saint-Louis which alone provides nearly 80% of Senegalese national market garden production. Market gardening, which employs practically all segments of the population, is one of the main activities in the Niayes area.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Dozens of people are busy harvesting cabbages in the market gardens located just in front of the entrance to the GCO site life base in Diogo, on December 20, 2024. The commune of Diogo is located in the Niayes zone, a 200 km long coastal strip between Dakar and Saint-Louis which alone provides nearly 80% of Senegalese national market garden production. Market gardening, which employs practically all segments of the population, is one of the main activities in the Niayes area.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian poses in a field in Diogo, located between Dakar and Saint-Louis, in the Thiès region of Senegal, on December 20, 2024. It is here, just behind her, that exploration began in 2006 and then in 2014 the exploitation of one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world by the Senegalese company Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*). Maïmouna owned a family field there where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian poses in a field in Diogo, located between Dakar and Saint-Louis, in the Thiès region of Senegal, on December 20, 2024. It is here, just behind her, that exploration began in 2006 and then in 2014 the exploitation of one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world by the Senegalese company Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*). Maïmouna owned a family field there where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian poses in a field in Diogo, located between Dakar and Saint-Louis, in the Thiès region of Senegal, on December 20, 2024. It is here, just behind her, that exploration began in 2006 and then in 2014 the exploitation of one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world by the Senegalese company Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*). Maïmouna owned a family field there where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian poses in a field in Diogo, located between Dakar and Saint-Louis, in the Thiès region of Senegal, on December 20, 2024. It is here, just behind her, that exploration began in 2006 and then in 2014 the exploitation of one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world by the Senegalese company Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*). Maïmouna owned a family field there where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Maïnouna Badian poses in a field in Diogo, located between Dakar and Saint-Louis, in the Thiès region of Senegal, on December 20, 2024. It is here, just behind her, that exploration began in 2006 and then in 2014 the exploitation of one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world by the Senegalese company Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*). Maïmouna owned a family field there where she did market gardening on 6 to 10 hectares and which she had to sell off for the modest sum of 3.5 million CFA francs. (Approx. 5350 euros) in an area where usually the hectare is negotiated between 1.5 and 3M CFA. On its now inaccessible field, a living base with office accommodation and a canteen was built to accommodate GCO staff. *At the time GCO was 90% controlled by Tizir, 50% owned by the French Eramet and 50% by the Australian Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL). The remaining 10% was ceded to the State, in accordance with the Senegalese mining code.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Aerial view in Diogo in the Thiès region of Senegal on December 20, 2024, in the ERAMET Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*) area began operating one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world in 2014. ERAMET GCO then committed to the government to rehabilitate the areas concerned while respecting biodiversity and to revegetate the soils identically, but almost 10 years after the passage of the itinerant mine, the process of revegetation in this formerly wooded and cultivated area seems to be a failure.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Aerial view in Diogo in the Thiès region of Senegal on December 20, 2024, in the ERAMET Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*) area began operating one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world in 2014. ERAMET GCO then committed to the government to rehabilitate the areas concerned while respecting biodiversity and to revegetate the soils identically, but almost 10 years after the passage of the itinerant mine, the process of revegetation in this formerly wooded and cultivated area seems to be a failure.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Aerial view in Diogo in the Thiès region of Senegal on December 20, 2024, in the ERAMET Grande Côte Opération SA (GCO*) area began operating one of the largest zircon and ilmenite mines in the world in 2014. ERAMET GCO then committed to the government to rehabilitate the areas concerned while respecting biodiversity and to revegetate the soils identically, but almost 10 years after the passage of the itinerant mine, the process of revegetation in this formerly wooded and cultivated area seems to be a failure.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Residents from the resettlement villages gathered spontaneously at the Foth Health post upon our arrival on December 20, 2024. All came to express their growing dissatisfaction with the accommodation conditions and the promises not respected by GCO ERAMET. Families, mainly agropastoral, deplore unsuitable housing, poor land that is difficult to cultivate due to difficult and increasingly deep access to water, animals that are almost impossible to feed, access to drinking water and electricity that does not keep its promises (solar kits that no longer work after 2 years), a polluted environment due to the proximity of the mine.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Residents from the resettlement villages gathered spontaneously at the Foth Health post upon our arrival on December 20, 2024. All came to express their growing dissatisfaction with the accommodation conditions and the promises not respected by GCO ERAMET. Families, mainly agropastoral, deplore unsuitable housing, poor land that is difficult to cultivate due to difficult and increasingly deep access to water, animals that are almost impossible to feed, access to drinking water and electricity that does not keep its promises (solar kits that no longer work after 2 years), a polluted environment due to the proximity of the mine.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Residents from the resettlement villages gathered spontaneously at the Foth Health post upon our arrival on December 20, 2024. All came to express their growing dissatisfaction with the accommodation conditions and the promises not respected by GCO ERAMET. Families, mainly agropastoral, deplore unsuitable housing, poor land that is difficult to cultivate due to difficult and increasingly deep access to water, animals that are almost impossible to feed, access to drinking water and electricity that does not keep its promises (solar kits that no longer work after 2 years), a polluted environment due to the proximity of the mine.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The general consultation register of the Foth health post, December 20, 2024. Cheik Diop, the nurse in charge of the center, notes the numerous problems of hypertension, kidney diseases, pneumonia, and diarrhea mainly caused by untreated borehole water and a high concentration of iron. The increase in cases of disease would be a direct consequence of the operation of the GCO mine according to residents.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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The Foth health post, in the Thiès region where the resettlement villages were built, was inaugurated on September 26, 2024. There is 1 state nurse and 1 midwife here. It is one of the best equipped centers in the department. Cheik Diop, the nurse in charge, reports numerous problems with hypertension, kidney disease, pneumonia, and diarrhea mainly caused by untreated borehole water and a high concentration of iron.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Resettled residents of the Medina district at the site of an abandoned borehole in the middle of a field in Foth on December 22, 2024. Access to water in the fields has become more and more difficult, you have to dig deeper and deeper and that is expensive.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Resettled residents of the Medina district at the site of an abandoned borehole in the middle of a field in Foth on December 22, 2024. Access to water in the fields has become more and more difficult, you have to dig deeper and deeper and that is expensive.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
Nicolas Réméné / Le Pictorium
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Resettled residents of the Medina district at the site of an abandoned borehole in the middle of a field in Foth on December 22, 2024. Access to water in the fields has become more and more difficult, you have to dig deeper and deeper and that is expensive.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Abou Ka, who worked for 14 years as a security guard at ERAMET GCO, shows us the uncultivable land that he and his relative (Ka Moussa) inherited in Foth, on December 22, 2024. The poor land and difficult access to water due to the depth of the drilling that would have to be done make market gardening practically impossible. Many residents of the resettlement villages of Foth have had to resign themselves to abandoning their work in the fields. Today, Abou Ka carries out small daily tasks such as burning garbage in the village for 1000 CFA francs / day. (1.5 euros)
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The Foth market, December 22, 2024. Built by GCO ERAMET, it is currently non-functional. The inhabitants have nothing to sell from their fields and the livestock are almost non-existent due to the difficulty of feeding them.
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Abou Ka, who worked for 14 years as a security agent at ERAMET GCO, shows the cans he filled with drilling water in his concession within the resettlement village in Foth, on December 22, 2024. Today, Abou Ka carries out small daily tasks such as burning garbage in the village for 1000 CFA francs / day. (1.5 euros)
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Abou Ka who worked 14 years as a security guard at ERAMET GCOI and whose t-shirt he still wears, here at the entrance to his house in the resettlement village in Foth, on December 22, 2024. Today, Abou Ka carries out small daily tasks such as burning garbage in the village for 1000 CFA francs / day. (1.5 euros)
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Ka Moussa (in blue) and his wife come from an agropastoral family from the village of Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane who were relocated to the Medina district of Foth in February 2017. GCO had promised them quality fields in return for the land they both owned. Between them they had 1 and a half hectares out of the 15 they previously owned. Today, they have stopped cultivating because the fields are yielding nothing and they do not have the means to drill deeper to access water.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Ka Moussa (in blue) and his wife come from an agropastoral family from the village of Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane who were relocated to the Medina district of Foth in February 2017. GCO had promised them quality fields in return for the land they both owned. Between them they had 1 and a half hectares out of the 15 they previously owned. Today, they have stopped cultivating because the fields are yielding nothing and they do not have the means to drill deeper to access water.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Abou Ka (white t-shirt) helps a woman to fill a bottle of water at the outlet of a pipe supposed to provide access to drinking water inside the Ka Moussa concession (in blue with the water bottle) in the resettlement village of Foth on December 22, 2024. The ocher-colored water is ferruginous. The inhabitants of Foth complain about the conditions of access to drinking water and the numerous illnesses that this causes. The purchase of bottled water, which has become almost obligatory due to the quality of borehole water, has a significant cost in households.
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Abou Ka (white t-shirt) helps a woman to fill a bottle of water at the outlet of a pipe supposed to provide access to drinking water inside the Ka Moussa concession (in blue with the water bottle) in the resettlement village of Foth on December 22, 2024. The ocher-colored water is ferruginous. The inhabitants of Foth complain about the conditions of access to drinking water and the numerous illnesses that this causes. The purchase of bottled water, which has become almost obligatory due to the quality of borehole water, has a significant cost in households.
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A woman shows the ocher color of the ferruginous water at the outlet of a pipe supposed to provide access to drinking water inside a concession in the resettlement village of Foth on December 22, 2024.
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) and his wife in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
Zircon Mine Eramet CGO Lompoul Senegal
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Amadou Sow (Djellabah brown) in the home where he was relocated in February 2017 with 27 other members of his family in the Medina district of Foth, on December 22, 2024. Coming from an agropastoral family and originally from Mbetete 2 in the commune of Tivaouane, he regrets the decline in the quality of life and the ever-increasing illnesses within his family since the installation of GCO. He is full of promises not kept by GCO concerning his land and today occupied by water and forests. Since 2019, like a large part of the population of the resettlement village, the solar kits no longer work. They therefore no longer have access to electricity.
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