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Grande Côte Opérations

Grande Côte Opérations (GCO) is a Senegalese subsidiary of the Eramet Group that specializes in the recovery of ilmenite, rutile, ilmenite, and zircon. The mine and its two processing plants have been in service since 2014. The project has managed to overcome a series of human, technical, and societal challenges to recover these natural resources, in partnership with the country’s public authorities and local communities.

“Our goal is to make GCO a global leader in the mineral sands industry, thanks to its competent, motivated team that respects the community around it.”

Guillaume Kurek, GCO CEO

Our commitments

The ERAMET Group pledges to conduct its business, everywhere in the countries where it operates.

Mineral sands production

Sand treatment process

About us

Mineral sands recovery

Our value chain

What we do

About Eramet

Eramet transforms the Earth’s mineral resources to provide sustainable and responsible solutions to the growth of the industry and to the challenges of the energy transition.

Its employees are committed to this through their civic and contributory approach in all the countries where the mining and metallurgical group is present.

Manganese, nickel, mineral sands, lithium, and cobalt: Eramet recovers and develops metals that are essential to the construction of a more sustainable world.

As a privileged partner of its industrial clients, the Group contributes to making robust and resistant infrastructures and constructions, more efficient means of mobility, safer health tools and more efficient telecommunications devices.

Fully committed to the era of metals, Eramet’s ambition is to become a reference for the responsible transformation of the Earth’s mineral resources for living well together.

10 700
employees

€3.8 billion
in adjusted revenue in 2023

16
countries of operation