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AMS - African Mining Services
Established in 1996 , African Mining Services ( AMS ) is one of the largest contract mining companies in Africa . The company provides a complete range of surface contract mining services to resource companies across the region . Its roster includes full drilling and exploration , load and haul , drill and blast , and grade control .
In 2010 AMS secured a mining contract from Perseus Mining for work on the Central Ashanti gold project in Ghana . The contract , which is projected to generate $ 300 million in revenue over five years , is for complete service including grade control , drilling and blasting , loading and hauling ore and waste and crusher feed . The project commenced in October of 2010 and is expected to be completed by September 2015 .
As parent company to AMS , Ausdrill Limited is an integrated mining and energy services group . The company provides an extensive array of global services including exploration , mine development , surfacing and underground mining , manufacturing , energy , and infrastructure services . Ausdrill is an ASX 200 company employing over 4,500 people in 19 specialist mining and energy businesses across nine countries .
Servicing key African countries – Ghana , Mali , Burkina Faso , Cote D ’ Ivoire , Tanzania and Zambia . AMS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ausdrill Limited .
and materials in the area . The company is close to identifying a route that will deliver a far better outcome than originally envisaged , and a plan to move forward with this route will be applied near the end of this year .
Growth Continuous improvement strategies at Perseus have two broad forms : formal and informal business improvement programs . The formal programs are for identifying the larger , more discernible concerns or ideas that would affect large parts of the business or the company as a whole . Employees from the ground up are encouraged to recommend any ideas for the informal business improvement programs ; these are small-scale improvements that can be made to day-today work .
In Ghana , employees from all levels of the organisation have made many of the productive informal suggestions . If these informal programs require research or investigation , they are upgraded to formal programs .
Currently , Perseus is looking to make improvements to the processing side of the business , including mechanical changes to how it processes ore . These changes will be responsible for significant
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