Centamin plc (, ) is a gold mining company focused on the

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. It has offices in London, UK; Mount Pleasant, Western Australia; and Alexandria, Egypt. Its registered office is in Jersey. It is listed on the

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and the

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and is a constituent of the

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History

Centamin was first listed on the

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in 1970.Centamin Egypt – 12 million ounces of gold and rising
Proactive Investors, 29 August 2008 In 1999 it acquired Pharaoh Gold Mines, a company that had been exploring for gold in

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since 1995, and became "Centamin Egypt". The Company was granted a 160 square kilometre exploitation lease over the Sukari Gold Project in the eastern desert of Egypt in 2005. A listing was secured on the

in 2007 to raise funding for production and first gold was poured in June 2009.Centamin Egypt on track for imminent production
Daily Telegraph, 7 April 2009 The Company moved to a full listing on the

in November 2009 and was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in 2010. In 2011 it redomiciled to Jersey and changed its name to "Centamin plc".

Operations

The Company operates the Sukari Gold Mine in the

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, some 700 km from Cairo and 25 km from the Red Sea. First gold was poured at Sukari in June 2009 and commercial production began on 1 April 2010, making Sukari the first modern gold mine in Egypt, a country which in ancient times was a prolific producer of the precious metal.

References

External links

Official site
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