Epic.Ex Lease Areas in South Sudan
The areas of title currently held under temporary licence issued by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mines
The Gold Licences of Epic.Ex
Introduction
Epic.Ex has two gold licences in the southern part of the Republic of South Sudan. Kapoeta is 22,110 km2 and Mundri is 22,360 km2 in extent. A third licence, the Maiwut Grant, of 8,533 km2, on the eastern border with Ethiopia, is of interest for both gold and manganese.
The licences lie in the Basement Gneisses and Schists. These are the typical cratonic rocks that Epic.Ex personnel have seen and worked on in the Archaean granite-greenstone gold producing areas around the world. Examples of such areas (where we have worked) are the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, the Barberton Mountain Land and the Marabastad Goldfield of South Africa, and the Lake Victoria Goldfields of Tanzania.
In the area of Epic.Ex’s Kapoeta and Mundri licences the country borders the DR Congo and Uganda, each with developing gold mining projects in these same rocks. Maiwut in part covers similar basement rocks of the Ethiopian Highlands as well as manganese-bearing rocks of the Umm Ruwaba Formation described later in the section on Epic.Ex’s Paloich Manganese Project.
Due to the past political unrest mineral exploration in South Sudan has not progressed as well as it has in its southern neighbours.