The motivation for the establishment of Sables is based on the academic research and practical experience of the founder and the need to serve the world better in the field of natural resources. The metals and minerals in the ground. Are blessings on earth. They are for a purpose which is as clearly established as the presence of the metals and minerals underground. These metals and minerals benefit everyone. Whether you are aware of it or not, they touch our lives from the very basic of our needs to luxuries that we engage with or in. They can provide revenues for governments, employment and income for the poorest and enable the clean energy transition. No matter how much or many a country has of them, they have no use unless they are taken out of the ground!
The questions must never be why they are mined but how they are mined and consumed or utilized. This is because, like most modern large-scale methods of business and development today, the process of mining involves the emission of greenhouse gases and other environmental effects as well as social and governance issues. These call for very serious attention. As the global climate crisis become more and more real, threatening the existence of humanity?, the urgency to pose the relevant questions and find the answers become aggravated. Therefore, Sables was set up for these reasons and to use the vast network of its principals to serve the world from the Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, a country that has already expressed its interests in the same questions and finding the answers by hosting COP28 in the year 2023. There are numerous other sustainability activities in the UAE, which we hope to participate in.
MANAGEMENT
DR. KARAMO NM SONKO
Managing Director
DR. KARAMO NM SONKO is a world citizen, a businessman and scholar. He is the founder and Managing Director of Sables Sustainable Mining. Dr Sonko has taught in five universities in Canada, France and the United States. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations (UN), the African Union, and other organizations. He has more than 20 years of experience in natural resource exploration, development, production and management (gold, phosphates and petroleum). He has managed teams in various multinational companies that have made multimillion-ounce discoveries of gold across Africa.
Dr Sonko is the innovator of the Strategic Management Sustainability Framework (SMSF) and Tool (SMST), a computerized comprehensive approach to challenges and their solutions that every organization/company needs. The SMSF has been presented at top organizations and corporations in different parts of the world, such as NextEnergy Capital (a London Stock Exchange-listed group), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), headquartered in Jeddah, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) in Riyadh, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Etisalat Academy (the Middle East’s largest training centre) in Dubai, and the Organization of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) in Brussels, Belgium. He is also the President and CEO of Jula Consultancy (UAE), Chairman of Taf Africa Global (the Gambia, one of the most successful property developers in Africa) and Strategic Adviser to the CEO and Managing Director of Perseus (Australia’s fastest growing and 3rd largest gold explorer, developer and producer).
Among his many publications is the first book ever on formal comprehensive or holistic ESG, entitled Demystifying ESG, published by Palgrave Macmillan (London & New York, 2023) and launched in Burj Khalifa, during COP28 in Dubai. He has degrees from the Universities of Swaziland, Cambridge (UK) and Denver (CO, USA).
MS. MARIAMA SONKO
Vice President for Sustainability and Impact
MS. MARIAMA SONKO is Vice President for Sustainability and Impact. She is a GRI-certified Sustainability Adviser and General Manager of the SMSF & SMST at Jula Consultancy, and Vice President of Sustainability and Impact of Sahara Gold Corporation.
She is the co-author of the first book ever on formal comprehensive or holistic Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), published by Palgrave Macmillan (London and New York) and lunched in Burj Khalifa during COP28 in Dubai, the largest COP so far. Mariama has organized webinars and made presentations on ESG for political leaders and company executives at the highest levels from different parts of the world.
She has degrees from the Paris-Sorbonne and Heriot-Watt Universities and post- graduate training in various areas of sustainability and fintech from Harvard and Cambridge Universities. She is fluent in English and French.
Coordinating Consultant
Dr Taleb Abeydi
Specialist in Environmental Impact Assessment
DR TALEB ABEYDI is a specialist in Environmental Impact Assessment, with over 20 years of experience in university education, research, as well as the evaluation and monitoring of the Environmental Management Plans of various mining companies in East, North and West African countries.
He also worked for the Government of Mauritania and international organizations, training both staff and colleagues in environmental management. Dr Taleb is the author of several books and articles dealing with environmental issues and a member of International Association for Impact Assessment.
He has extensive experience in mining in remote desert locations, and was a Director of Environment of Tasiast Mauritanie and a key person in the permitting of the Kinross Gold Mine in Mauritania, one of the biggest gold mines in West Africa. Dr Taleb has a Ph.D in geography from the University of Paris.
Financial Analyst
MR. AHMED MOHAMEDOU
Financial Advisor
MR. AHMED MOHAMEDOU is a specialist in risk and stochastic finance and has worked for several banks in Europe and Africa: namely Fortis, Belgolaise and Generale de Banque de Mauritanie.
He now heads his own businesses in North and West Africa: MCA (Mauritanienne pour le Conseil et l’Audit) (a partner of BDO International), Servisud, Speed’as, SMMCI (Societe Mauritano–Marocaine pour le Commerce International) and Global Trade.
He has taught as a part-time lecturer at the University of Nouakchott, Mauritania. Mr. Mohamedou has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), a Master’s degree in actuarial science from the Free University of Bruxelles (Belgium) and a Master’s degree in Finance from Saint Luis University, Bruxelles. Ahmed is fluent in Arabic and French and moderate in English. He serves as an financial analyst (specializing in risk, banking and insurance) for Sables and our clients.
Investor relations
MS. SOPHIA SHANE
Director of Investor Relations
MS. SOPHIA SHANE has decades of experience in capital markets, corporate development and investor relations to District Metals Corporation following a career spanning nearly 30 years at the highly successful Lundin Group of Companies. At the Lundin Group, she was involved in all aspects of marketing, branding, shareholder communications, corporate access, financing, regulatory compliance as well as media relations.
Ms. Shane has been a Director of a number of public companies including Anfield Ventures which ultimately became Equinox Gold. She is currently a Director of Interfiled Global Software Inc. (IFSS:NEO), a company that provides a fulfillments marketplace for the efficient procurement and management of mining and oil & gas industrial equipment around the globe. She was a Fellow of CSI (FCSI®) and early in her career an Investment Advisor at Odlum Brown Ltd.
Office Manager
MR. SAMIH MOHAMED HASHIM IBRAHIM
Officer Manager
MR. SAMIH MOHAMED HASHIM IBRAHIM has experience in sales, marketing, public and community relations, and accounting. He has worked for a number of Sudanese companies. He has also worked for Perseus Mining in the Sudan as Government and Community Relations Officer in Khartoum and Port Sudan as well as Security Supervisor on site at the Block 14 Gold Project in River Nile State. He has a BSc in Economic and Political Science from the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies.
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