Compagnie Minière d'Akouta

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Compagnie Minière d'Akouta SA
legal form Société Anonyme
founding June 12, 1974
Seat Niamey , Niger
management Michel Capobianco
Number of employees 1199
Branch Uranium mining
As of December 31, 2009

SONARA building in Niamey, the headquarters of COMINAK

The Compagnie Minière d'Akouta (COMINAK) is a uranium mining company in Niger that operates several uranium mines in the north of the country.

Corporate structure

The company with the legal form Société Anonyme (S.A.) and headquarters in the SONARA building in Niamey . Its share capital is 3.5 billion CFA francs . The French state company Areva owns 34% of the company. The Nigerien state has a 31% stake through the Société du Patrimoine des Mines du Niger (SOPAMIN). The Japanese consortium Overseas Uranium Resources Development (OURD) owns 25% and the Spanish state company ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas 10% of the COMINAK shares. The company employs 950 ordinary workers, 194 team leaders and 55 senior executives. 671 people work as suppliers (as of December 31, 2009).

history

COMINAK is the second oldest Nigerian uranium mining company after the Société des Mines de l'Aïr (SOMAÏR). It was established on June 12, 1974 after Niger, France and Japan signed a protocol to jointly explore the Akouta uranium deposit in 1970 . By 1978 COMINAK had invested an estimated 54 billion CFA francs in the development of Akouta, including the construction of a factory and the construction of the Akokan mining settlement on the outskirts of Arlit . The plant started operations in 1978. COMINAK later developed further uranium deposits in Akola and Afasto near Akouta. In 1979, 1781 tons of uranium were produced, in 1981 with 2103 tons, more than the SOMAÏR. In 1986, a worldwide oversupply of uranium led COMINAK to cut back its production. The world market price per kilogram of uranium fell from 500 francs in 1989 to 220 francs in 1999. If COMINAK employed more than 2,000 people in 1989, this number fell to an estimated 1233 in December 1997. The majority owner Areva and the Nigerien state renewed their mining license in 2001. The Areva was targeted by environmentalists who measured increased radioactivity in a large area around the COMINAK quarries. The company then tried to obtain environmental certificates. COMINAK was ISO 14001 certified in 2003 and 2006 . In 2012 the production amounted to 1506 tons of uranium content.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ COMINAK, exploitant de la plus grande mine d'uranium souterraine. Areva, accessed June 26, 2013 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Les Chiffres de la Sopamin. (No longer available online.) Société du Patrimoine des Mines du Niger, 2013, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved June 26, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopamin-sa.com
  3. ^ Compagnie Minière d'Akouta. Rapport Environnemental, Social et Sociétal 2009. (PDF; 3.1 MB) Areva, 2010, p. 9 , accessed on June 26, 2013 (French).
  4. ↑ a b c Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 133-134 .
  5. ↑ a b Compagnie Minière d'Akouta. Rapport Environnemental, Social et Sociétal 2009. (PDF file; 3.1 MB) Areva, 2010, p. 6 , accessed on June 26, 2013 (French).
  6. ↑ a b c Emmanuel Grégoire: Touaregs du Niger. Le destin d'un mythe . 2nd Edition. Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0352-1 , pp. 119-120 .
  7. ^ Uranium in Niger. World Nuclear Association, June 2013, accessed June 26, 2013 .
  8. ↑ COMINAK, une des plus importantes mines souterraines d'uranium. (PDF file; 368 kB) Areva, accessed on June 26, 2013 (French).