About Us
About Us
Driving Progress and Excellence
Mining Excavation Congo SAS (MEXCO) is an earthworks and road construction company that builds on the experience of professionals and local DRC employees with significant experience in the Congolese market, brought together with the objective of working on significant earthmoving and infrastructure developments (roads, construction of tailings dams, excavation, loading and hauling of waste and ore and drilling for blasting).
The main activities of our company are to provide mining services such as open-pit mining, hauling of wastes and ore, equipment rental, TSF construction, drill for blast and a range of services to design and construct dirt roads as well as tarred road for private and public clients in the Haut-Katanga and Lualaba provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MEXCO boasts an in-depth knowledge of the Congolese market and promotes transparency with its clients about operational information such as labour plan, fleet management and maintenance plan, safety management plan, production plan…
Core Services
Surface Mining (Loading & Hauling, Drilling)
MEXCO proposes load and haul services of ore and waste using hydraulic excavators, primarily in a backhoe configuration from 4.5 m3 to 16 m3 load capacity range, loading direct drive dump trucks in the 40t to 100t load capacity range. Equipment used includes Hitachi and Caterpillar excavators, Caterpillar, Volvo and LGMG dump trucks (40t to 100T capacity) and primarily Caterpillar bulldozers, graders, etc.
To deal with long distance haulage from satellite pits using Volvo trucks. MEXCO has adapted large trucks to haul trailers carrying up to 50t and up to 300 kilometres on purpose built haul roads.
MEXCO also engages in environmental rehabilitation of mine site waste dumps, borrow areas, etc. on a full service basis or by proposing equipment for hire (with operators).
Drilling without a doubt is a key function on the mine. MEXCO is committed to carrying out drilling in a safe and efficient manner, under the instructions of his clients. MEXCO uses primarily Sandvik Pantera drill rigs, which are famous around the world for their reliability. MEXCO has extensive experience in drilling all types of materials from heavily oxidized to hard rock (black shale) drilling holes from 64mm to 270mm in diameter.
Infrastructure (Road construction and maintenance)
Building on its expertise with heavy machinery such as dump loaders, excavators, bulldozers, graders, road pavers, compactors,… operated in the mining environment, MEXCO has developed a road construction and maintenance activity by investing in additional equipment and expertise such as mobile crushing units and asphalt plants.
This activity covers a range of services such as construction of dirt roads (in-mine and out of mine), profiling and construction of tarred roads of all sizes and maintenance of roads (dirt and tarred).
Corporate Values
Quality
We consider quality as a vital value for the success of our company and that of our clients. Our business model is based on new and premium OEM equipment (Caterpillar, Volvo, Hitachi, Sandvik…). This strong partnership developed with the best OEMs in their sector provides us with the flexibility that we need to add rented equipment as and when required and access to original spare parts and access to top quality workshops and expertise.
Management Efficiency
We are able to manage efficiently a number of sites concurrently thanks to our internal management processes and the dynamism of our teams. We created a strong team spirit which is at the core of our work.
Safety Driven
Safety and well-being of our employees are for MEXCO essential values that drive our internal policies. MEXCO recognises that it has a duty of care to ensure that all work activities will achieve a high standard of safety, and provides a safe environment for all its employees, sub-contractors, and visitors. All our employees have a reciprocal duty of care to ensure that they assist each-other in achieving an injury free workplace.
Dynamic Employee
MEXCO advocates the initiative, growth and development of its employees because we strongly believe that it encourages workers (essentially locals with a small number of highly skilled expatriates) to improve their skills and take the appropriate decisions at all levels of the organization
Training
MEXCO is committed to high quality standards and in order to maintain these standards, it attaches a lot of importance to the skills of its employees at all levels of the organization. Therefore focus on the training of its workforce is essential in order to guarantee success for our clients and for ourselves. MEXCO provides essential skills training, and encourages all personnel to develop his/her professional talents in order to continuously improve performance.
Social Actions
Concerned with the development of the living standards in the country, MEXCO supports the authorities of the provinces in which it operates in their efforts to rehabilitate schools, hospitals and other local infrastructure.