Moz awards contract for expansion of mining cadastre system

The Mozambique government has awarded a contract to Canada-based Spatial Dimension to expand the cadastre system of the Ministry of Mineral Resources.

The expansion will involve the incorporation into the cadastre system of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative compliance monitoring and reporting, as well as, for diamonds, the same functions for the Kimberley Process. It will also expand the geographic coverage of the cadastre system to encompass four new regional offices. The programme is being funded by the World Bank thought its Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility.

This contract is effectively a follow-up to a 2003 contract, also funded by the World Bank, to create a modern cadastre system for the African country. “This [new] contract, coming almost exactly ten years to the day that Spatial Dimension was first contracted by the Mozambican Ministry of Mineral Resources to implement a new computerised mining cadastre system, is particularly special for all of us at Spatial Dimension,” said company CEO Bill Feast.

“By adopting our FlexiCadastre solution, Mozambique has been able to stay current with technology changes over the past decade through our software maintenance programme,” he affirmed. “This is a key differentiator of Spatial Dimension’s value proposition in the industry, we deliver sustainable solutions that are easy to support, maintain and extend as needs and technology change.”