As of Wednesday 2 May 2012, Newgenco group is located at its new offices at

Suite 2 Level 1, 12-20 Railway Road, Subiaco WA 6014 AUSTRALIA.

All phone contact details remain the same.  The new fax number will be posted to our website when available.

Dr Francois Ouedraogo has joined Newgenco as Regional Consultant for its group companies operating in the West Africa region. Dr Ouedraogo brings an un-paralleled knowledge of the regional geology and its mineral systems to the Newgenco base metal exploration teams.

Francois is an exploration geologist with 25 years experience in the Birimian (Early Proterozoic ) greenstone belts of West Africa.  He holds a PhD in metallogeny and structural geology from the University of Orleans, France.

Dr Ouedraogo was the team leader of the UNDP Project which focused on the search for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization in southern and central Burkina Faso. He is the co-author of “West African Gold Deposits in their Proterozoic Lithostructural Setting” and the “West African Mineral Map”. He was also in charge of preparation of the Burkina Faso country wide geology mapping and airbore magnetic and radiometry coverage project funded by European Union SYSMIN facilities and has been involved in four gold discoveries in Burkina Faso.

He has held numerous senior and executive roles with BUMIGEB (Bureau des Mines et de la Géologie du Burkina), the UNDP, WMC Resources , Resolute Ltd and Goldbelt Resources.  He was a co-founder of ASX-listed Ampella Mining and has previously held roles as VP – Exploration and more recently Senior VP – Corporate Africa.

Newgenco’s service alliance partner in Burkina Faso, TTG (TENG – TUUMA GEOSERVICES), successfully organised the first SGA-SEG-UNESCO-IUGS course on African Metallogeny. Titled “Precious and Not-so-precious Metals in Old Cratons”. the course was held at at TTG’s dedicated training and education facility in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 12 to 18 March 2012.

The course was opened by the Le Ministre des Mines, des Carrières et de l’Energie M. Lassané SAVADOGO and received very significant coverage in both the print and television media.

Course presenters were all internationally recognized experts, including Newgenco Director, Peter Williams.

TTG’s Managing Director, Dr Francois Ouedraogo, is Regional Consultant for the Newgenco group companies operating in West Africa.

At the start of May 2012, Newgenco will be moving  a couple of blocks down the street to a new office at:

Suite 2, 12-20 Railway Road, Subiaco WA 6014 AUSTRALIA.

Details, including new phone-fax numbers, will be updated on the website at the time of the move.

Kim France has accepted the role of Company Secretary for the newgenco group of companies.

Kim has over 35 years experience in commerce, mainly in executive roles. He is currently CFO and Company Secretary of Ethan Minerals Ltd, a company listed on the ASX.  He is a former CFO and Company Secretary of 3 other ASX listed companies, 4 financial institutions and numerous non-listed, public and private entities.

Peter Williams, John Simmonds and JP Hunt will be attending the 2011 Mining Indaba in Cape Town.

If you would like to set up a meeting, please contact us through the links here.