Mohamed Ourriban, General Manager, Essakane, IAMGOLD Corporation

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WHAT WE’VE LEARNED FROM OUR SOLAR PROJECTS

Mohamed Ourriban, General Manager, Essakane, IAMGOLD Corporation

IAMGOLD’s Essakane gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso produced a record 457,000 ounces of gold in 2021. The open pit mine started in 2010 and its life extends to 2027.

The company also operates the Westwood mine in Quebec, Canada, and the Rosebel mine in Suriname.

It is committed to achieve net negative greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Spread across 22 hectares, the solar plant at the Essakane mine has 128,880 thin film solar modules with an installed AC power capacity of 12 MW. The plant was commissioned in March 2018.

The production of the solar park represents 7% of Essakane’s energy demand per day (25,000 MWh annual). Essakane found the following impacts after the installation:

• Reduction of 16.5 teq CO2 • Reduction of 5.5 million liters of fuel • Reduction of 120 fuel delivery trucks annually (further impact on our

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emissions reduction) • 2% reduction in operating hours of the thermal plant • 0.75% increase in fuel consumption at the thermal plant due to the need for a spinning reserve IAMGOLD is evaluating various options to achieve its decarbonisation objectives including extending the solar plant by 10 MW, installing battery storage of 5 MW/ MWh , and the use of LNG as an energy fuel source as well as for use in Cat 785C trucks.

Ourriban says these projects may not see the light of day given the short mine life remaining. “But for Essakane, or IAMGOLD it’s an experience and the projects could be done at Essakane or at other operations in the future,” he adds.

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