Pragma Africa is venturing into foreign African territory to assist Randgold Tongon to set up some of their asset management practices.

Randgold Tongon is a newly developed gold mine in the Ivory Coast. It is rapidly setting up its operation and already managed to pour its first gold on the 8th of November 2010.

Pragma Africa was contracted to implement On Key Maintenance Manager for 1200 maintenance-significant items. The contract is based on the new business process approach which includes a Standards Manual.

The efficiency and commitment of Senior Maintenance Planner, Josh Nelson, Material Controller, Yoe Songuida, Plant Engineer, Awie Frey and their mostly foreign colleagues are commendable. They worked tirelessly to prepare the asset register and to add the preventive maintenance tasks to ensure a timely project kickoff in October this year.

"It was a privilege to see this part of the world and to understand these tough working conditions. It reminded me once again how blessed we are in sunny South Africa," says Helgard Pienaar, Client Relationship Manager of Pragma Africa.

"Traveling to the Tongon Mine is a four-hour flight from Johannesburg to Nairobi, a six-hour flight from Nairobi to Abidjan and a one-hour flight from Abidjan to the mine's vicinity. You can thus imagine a few interesting central African situations," comments Pienaar.

Pragma Africa has already established an ACC at the Morilla Mine and further expansion to other project sites is in the pipeline.