319 km²

Mining license obtained in 2009, parliamentary approval in February 2010. ML02/09

Mining license obtained in 2009, parliamentary approval in February 2010. ML02/09. Taken over by SL Mining under ML01/2017. In 2019 the government cancelled the license, but it was reinstated in 2021.

First ore shipments made in 2012

First ore shipments made in 2012. Gerald's wholly-owned subsidiary SL Mining filed for arbitration in August 2019 over a royalty payment dispute and suspended the Marampa mine the following month. Sierra Leone's government responded by cancelling its mining licence.

SL MINING shall pay to the GOSL annually and without demand on Reference Date and on each anniversary of the Reference Date, the sum of US$500,000 (Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) in respect of an annual lease rent as defined and envisaged in its Mining Licence ML0I/2017 which amount shall be increased annually on each anniversary of the Reference Date by an amount equal to 3% of the annual lease rent for the previous year. (Source: https://resourcecontracts.org/contract/ocds-591adf-9176507089/view#/text). In addition, SL MINING shall pay to the land owners through the appropriate local authority in which the mining lease area is situated annually and without demand an annual surface rent as specified in the respective leases of SL MINING, subject to revision provided for in the Provinces Lands Act (Cap 122).

Marampa Mine

Subject to Section 113(5), and Section 167 of the Minerals Act, SL MINING shall have the right to export all iron ore and associated minerals or mineral concentrates raised or obtained in the course of mining operations to any country other than countries to which the laws of the Republic of Sierra Leone prohibit such exports.

First mining activities in 1933, ceased in 1985

First mining activities in 1933, ceased in 1985. There are two iron ore mines. The activities from Cape Lambert have been entered into a new deal (8863).