Main contract mining firm Engineers & Planners Co Ltd (E&P) is planning to take a position roughly US$1.2 billion for its ongoing contract operations at Gold Fields’ Tarkwa and Damang gold mines in Ghana.
As a part of efforts to strengthen operations and increase capability, the indigenous mining agency has dispatched 30 Caterpillar 785D mining vans to its operational base in Tarkwa. E&P says its funding in heavy-duty mining gear dates again to 2002. The newest funding builds on earlier funding in 2018, when the corporate dedicated an estimated US$650 million to the 2 operations.
Since February 1997, E&P has been conducting contract mining companies for worldwide mining, development and gear rental corporations world wide with explicit experience in mining environments inside Africa. E&P has grown internationally to service each small & big-tier corporations by way of its contract mining and development divisions. It’s a wholly indigenous Ghanaian owned firm headquartered in Accra, Ghana.
Following its inception it has efficiently accomplished world class tasks together with highway development, mining tasks, tailings dam development, landfill website development, leach pads development and land reclamation amongst others. It has executed mining tasks each in Ghana and in Liberia. Over the previous 25 years E&P has gained appreciable expertise in onerous rock mining.
E&P is presently engaged in onerous rock contract mining for the South African mining big Gold Fields at its world class mine in Tarkwa and Damang. Between January 2010 and Could 2014, E&P additionally undertook onerous rock mining for Golden Star (Wassa) Ltd.
The corporate can also be turning into a mine proprietor operator in its personal proper. In September 2025 E&P efficiently acquired all issued shares of Azumah Sources Ghana Ltd and Upwest Sources Ltd, following a share switch settlement with the Ghanaian Useful Proprietor, and formally putting the Black Volta and Sankofa tasks below E&P’s full possession and administration. It says after many years of inactivity, these tasks now stand on the threshold of full-scale growth below Ghanaian management.
This was adopted in December 2025 by Azumah Sources Ghana Ltd asserting that it had entered right into a strategic settlement with FLSmidth as a strategic gear and expertise associate for the Black Volta gold undertaking protecting provide of all lengthy lead gadgets valued at circa US$37 million. The gear is because of be delivered throughout 2026, forward of mine start-up in 2027.
FLS will provide amongst different gear a gyratory crusher, Raptor cone crusher, SAG and ball mill, pre-leach thickener, screens, apron feeders, KREBS cyclones and pumps. The order additionally consists of gear for absorption, desorption and refining and detoxing. FLS can even present technical assist to the EPC contractor through the detailed engineering part and website assist for erection and set up, start-up, commissioning and website coaching. As well as, the order consists of spare components in addition to a efficiency assure for the method gear.
