Société Équatoriale des Mines

Created on August 24 2011 by the presidential decree No. 1018/PR/MMPH, SEM is a state-owned company with a private-company management. It is therefore a public limited company with a board of directors and an executive board. It is under the management of the Presidency of the Republic and operates under the technical supervision of the Ministry of Mines. SEM's main mission is to improve the Gabonese people's life by making them benefit, in total transparency and fairness, from the sustainable development of the mineral resources which abound in their underground.