Who we supply
Verified, traceable copper ore — suited to leach-SX-EW processing.
A roadmap toward refined cathode sits behind the ore INFO MEMA supplies today, and every claim about ore character is tied to a named assay method.
Who we serve
- SX-EW operators — Kitui ore’s oxide, sulfur-poor profile is a direct match for leach–solvent-extraction–electrowinning processing, without a smelting step.
- Ore traders — aggregated, formula-priced parcels with independent assay backing, suited to onward trade.
- Eventual cathode consumers — as INFO MEMA’s own beneficiation capacity comes online, refined LME Grade-A cathode is the roadmap destination.
Markets
Domestic Kenyan buyers, the wider East African market, and international buyers reached via export through the port of Mombasa, under the applicable Mineral Export Permit for each consignment.
The oxide-copper case
Kitui’s copper occurs mainly as malachite and azurite — oxide/carbonate minerals, not primary sulfides — hosted in metagabbro and metagranite of the Neoproterozoic Mozambique Belt. This is independently corroborated by a 2026 academic structural study of the adjacent Kwa Mutonga–Vonza area (Kitonga et al., East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources), and by INFO MEMA’s own field and laboratory assays, which show sulfur consistently below 0.5% across every sample taken.
That combination — oxide mineralisation, negligible sulfur — is what makes a leach–SX-EW route the right fit, rather than flotation or smelting, and it is why INFO MEMA’s roadmap is built around that process from the outset.
Cited, not asserted
Every grade and mineralogy claim on this page traces to a named source: handheld-XRF field assays, bench-XRF and AAS results from the Directorate of Geological Survey’s Mineral Certification Laboratory, and independently published academic mapping of the same geological corridor — set out in full on the Kitui Project page.