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Kush Mining & Exploration Plc (KME) is registered in the Federal Republic of Ethiopia. Its main purpose is to identify exploration and mining opportunities in Ethiopia and to match those opportunities with foreign mining companies.
To this effect KME has conducted extensive research over the past 9 months and amassed a considerable amount of information on the mineral potential of Ethiopia. The country has an extensive panoply of minerals, including but not limited to: PGM (gold, platinum. niobium), base metals (copper, zinc, nickel, iron ore) tantalum, lithium, potash, industrial minerals, diamonds and gemstones and rare earth elements.
The founding members of KME have years of experience in their respective fields as well as personal contacts at all levels of Governments be it national provincial or local. The team is composed of:
Tulu Shumi Miacho, Chairman & CEO. He is an Ethiopian citizen and businessman with considerable contacts with the Government and Ministry of Mines. Tulu divides his time between South Africa and Ethiopia where he will
take up full time residence next month.
Joseph (Jos) Dessureault is a Canadian citizen with 40 experience in exploration and mining in Africa> He has lived and worked in 10 different countries in Africa. Jos and his company discovered the first commercial gold mine in Guinea West Africa in the Province of Siguiri which is now owned and operated by Anglo American
Ashanti and still produces +280,000 oz./year. During his career Jos partnered with numerous companies includ-
ing DeBeers in DRC. He also worked or consulted with major companies such as Anglo America, Barrick, Ivanhoe Mine and Metalex Ventures of Canada. Jos resides temporarily in South Africa and will take up residence in Ethiopia shortly.
Dr.Abdulahi (PhrmD, MLS) is an Ethiopian born US citizen with extensive background in medicine and actively practicing in the USA. Dr Abdulahi is a current owner and CEO two successful long term care facility in the USA in the state of Oregon. He divides his time between USA and Ethiopia with main residence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has a proven track record of driving growth and profitability in mining and healthcare sector. He has gained extensive knowledge and experience working under strategic leadership of, Joseph Dessureault, one of the pioneers in the field of mining in over 20 countries in Africa and 40 plus years of experinace
Ribka Feyisa Joro is an Ethiopia citizen ad businesswoman with experience in Finance and Administration. She has extensive connections at all levels of Governments in part due to her family.
Ifabas Kebede Meskele is an Ethiopian citizen and geologist who was most instrumental in the acquisition of the
information we have amassed thanks to his contacts in the Ministry of Mines.
Durecha Feyisa Shumi is an Ethiopian citizen with extensive experience in logistics in Ethiopia.
The Federal Republic of Ethiopia has a vast panoply of minerals yet to be explored properly and extracted to the benefit of all parties involved. I have spent + 40 in exploration and mining in Africa. During that time, I have lived and worked in ten different countries in Africa From Guinea West Africa, to 15 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Angola and South Africa and points in between. I discovered the first commercial gold mine in Guinea West Africa which 34 years later in still producing + 280,000 oz of gold per year.
I have partnered with, worked, or consulted for numerous International Mining Companies over my forty plus years in Africa. Had I known about Ethiopia in 1980 when I first came to
Africa, it would have been my preferred destination. However, in 1974 Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed and assassinated by the communist DERG in 1975. The idiot head of the DERG, Mengistu wanted to model the country on the lines of the Proletariat Revolution
of 1917. Hence mineral exploration and mining were ignored in favour of an agrarian society. Foreign companies were rarely welcomed unless they spoke Russian. The agrarian model did not work and in a military coup in 1991 led by the present head of Government, Mengistu
was deposed and took refuge in Zimbabwe.
It is my opinion that Ethiopia is a close second to the Democratic Republic of Congo in terms of untapped mineral wealth. The world Bank and the USGS estimates that DRCongo has 23 trillion US in untapped mineral wealth, making it one of the richest countries in the world and yet it ranks as the 5 th poorest country in the world .
