This world class mineral sands project is located on a coastal mobile dune system starting about 50 km north-east of Dakar and extending northward for more than 100 km. The mineralised dune system averages 4 km in width. The project area is 445.7 km sq and the main heavy mineral deposits identified to date are Diogo, Mboro, Fass Boye and Lompoul.

At the Grande Côte, independent consultants have estimated a measured and indicated Mineral Resource of 1,030 million tonnes at 1.7% heavy mineral (HM) at a 1.25% cut-off grade. At design capacity, the mining rate of 55 mtpa will produce approximately 85,000 tonnes of zircon annually, making it one of the larger zircon mines in the world, and 550,000 - 600,000 tonnes of ilmenite.