The Ngualla Project is a high-grade rare earths project located approximately 100 km west of Dar es Salaam in the Songwe Region of Tanzania on the edge of the East African Rift Valley.
The project will consist of an open cut mine and processing plant to produce a high-grade rare earth concentrate for export over a proposed mine life of approximately 20 years.
Ngualla received its environmental certificate from the Tanzanian regulator in March 2017 and its special mining licence has been approved by the Tanzanian Cabinet.
SUMMARY
Dhamana was engaged to undertake a compliance review of the environmental and social impact assessment against global sustainability frameworks such as the Equator Principles and International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards.
This included aligning the environmental and social action plan with the IFC Performance Standards, IFC Environmental Health and Safety Guidelines for Mining, IFC Environmental Health and Safety Guidelines and Equator Principles to determine the compliance level and outline actions to be undertaken to become compliant.
Dhamana also provides ongoing support to manage environmental, social and water quality related studies for the Project and provides environmental advice to Peak Rare Earths.
KEY SERVICES
-
Compliance review of ESIA against global frameworks such as IFC Performance Standards and Equator principles.
-
Scoping and management of various baseline studies.
-
Environmental, social and governance and sustainability planning, reporting, management and auditing.
-
Environmental scoping studies.
-
Advice to Peak Rare Earth regarding environmental and social issues associated with the Ngualla project.
LOCATION
Tanzania
YEAR
2022 - present
