Company Background
Foison Resources (SL) Limited is a private company that is registered and incorporated in Freetown, Sierra Leone on the 22nd day of December, 2021 under the Companies Act No. 5 of 2009. The company has its official address situated at 9 Sierratel Drive off Hill Station, Freetown Sierra Leone. The company acquired a small-scale mining license on 13th September 2022 over an area of approximately 96.45 hectares within the Sogbini chiefdom, Bonthe District and later large-scale mining license on 12th April 2024 covering and area of 121.735 square kilometer in Congbora Chiefdon Moyamba District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.
Foison has an established operation of about two years in Sierra Leone.
Foison is currently mining a virgin deposit in Sogbini chiefdom, Bonthe District. Foison has recently acquired two large scale licenses in Moyamba and Bonthe District. The company have a professional mining team that has the capacity of implementing simple and efficient management system, our unique team can sufficiently manage and run dry mining, dredge mining and other mining technologies effectively, for different mineral sand deposit by using different mining method. Our team has more than 10 years mining experience in Sierra Leone. We use different methods to treat different soil property and terrain. We have thorough understanding and experience on various landforms of Sierra Leone and we are skilled in different mining methods for instance extracting placers in different areas with the lowest cost and the most reasonable management mode.
Some of the main objectives for which Foison Resources (SL) Limited was formed is to explore, mine, treat and export all types of minerals especially Heavy Mineral Sands (HMS) from Sierra Leone. The company is very keen to hire highly experienced and very professional staff in the fields of Mining Engineering, Minerals Trading and Processing, Geology, Metallurgy and Finance who might have worked in the same or similar mining projects particularly in Sierra Leone and create job opportunities for Sierra Leoneans thereby contributing to the country’s socio-economic development.
Our Core Values at FRL are:
- Mining for a better society
- Excellence and sustainability
- Respect and protect our natural surroundings. We care about the environment; after all we live here too.
- Treat people with fairness, dignity and respect
- We make communities better through active and sustainable involvement with host communities, generously sharing our resources and human talent, we grow alongside our communities.
- Our integrity is reflected in the way we treat each other, in our contracts and agreements, our environmental audits and reports and our financial statements.