In January 2024, Endeavour Mining announced the termination of Sébastien de Montessus as CEO and later detailed the impact on his remuneration, following the board's earlier disclosure of serious misconduct. The company's 2025 AGM and management information circular set out the board's ongoing governance work.
Executive summary
The dismissal is a matter of record; the harder question is whether the board built the controls that would prevent a repeat.
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- Governance
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Section 01
What happened
Section 02
The fundamentals lesson
For West African-focused producers in particular, governance is not an ESG check-box; it is a component of the discount rate. Endeavour's operating assets are real and valuable, but the market will keep pricing an extra premium for uncertainty until the governance reset is old news, not recent news.
The company's 2025 AGM and management information circular set out the board's ongoing governance work.
Data visualiser
Jurisdiction friction score, selected gold regimes
- Canada18
- Ghana34
- Tanzania47
- Uganda52
- DRC78
| Stage | Value (index) |
|---|---|
| Canada | 18 |
| Ghana | 34 |
| Tanzania | 47 |
| Uganda | 52 |
| DRC | 78 |
Composite of licence-transfer time, royalty stability and export-permit reliability. Lower is smoother.
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