Cameroon: Minister of mines, other dignitaries visit the Minim Martap Project site

Phillip Gallagher, the Managing Director of Canyon Resources and Rick Smith, the new Camalco Director-General hosted a visit on 25^th January 2021, to the Minim Martap Project site by His Excellency Gabrielle Ndoko, the Minister of Mines – Govt. of Cameroon, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Mines, the Governor of the Adamoua Region and other dignitaries.

The purpose of the site visit was for Camalco to present the results of the extensive exploration and geological research completed by the company on the Project and to discuss the development plans for the Project.

The presentation and meetings at the towns of Martap and Minim were chaired by the Minister of Mines and attended by local dignitaries and people from the local villages.

The meetings were overwhelmingly positive, and the Minister of Mines announced publicly that the Minim Martap Project would now be transitioning to the mining phase of the Project.

Phillip Gallagher, Managing Director, Canyon Resources, said: “I am very pleased with the positive start to the year following a pleasing visit to Cameroon. Canyon’s Cameroon subsidiary company, Camalco Cameroon SA, hosted a very successful site visit to the Minim Martap project site with His Excellency the Minister of Mines, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Mines and the Governor of the Adamoua Region. Camalco demonstrated the high quality of work completed by our 100% Cameroonian technical team during the very difficult COVID period. The Minister of Mines publicly stated that he will work with the Company to take the project to the mining phase. We are pleased to have a pathway to finalising key agreements with the Government of Cameroon.”