Trip to the Republic of Guinea – Day One

Met up with Fanie Coetzee of Epoch Resources at O.R.Tambo International Airport and headed through to the departure lounge for a coffee. The purpose of this trip is to see the AluFer bauxite mine project at Bel-Air in coastal Guinea and then to review the reports produced to date in the context of what we have seen. The route to Guinea was not a simple one and involved quite a bit of travel. Our plane to Dakar departed at 19h00 as scheduled and I had my first look at the specialist reports that had been compiled late last year in the project area. Even though the flight took 8.5 hours, the change in time zones meant we landed at 01h30 in Dakar, Senegal.  Amazingly, even at that crazy time there was still a fair amount of traffic on the road between the airport and our hotel. We checked into the hotel Terrou-Bi at about 02h30 and stumbled to our rooms.