State-owned and co-opted commercial entities · state company · Sudan
Sudanese Mineral Resources Company (SMRC)
Part of the SAF or state-controlled
AGrade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
7 documented ties · 1 step from the SAF
Also recorded as: Sudan Mineral Resources Company; الشركة السودانية للموارد المعدنية; SMRC
Collects royalties and oversees gold sector for the Port Sudan (SAF-led) authorities; Chatham House treats gold revenue as central to SAF war financing. No sanctions designation.
Response
No response is recorded. Named parties have not yet been asked for comment.
Records
4
Each record carries its own grade. A grade describes the source for that record, not the actor.
AGrade A: Official record
SMRC's own statements of support for the armed forces (2025-2026)
2025-04 to 2026-06
On its own page the gold-sector regulator records direct support to the army. 13 Apr 2025: the director-general visited the General Command and the Armoured Corps; the corps commander praised the company's 'direct support to the military hospital at critical times'; the director-general said the company 'supplied the state treasury during the year with more than one billion seven hundred million dollars' and 'will continue its full support for the regular forces'. 25 Aug 2025: SMRC joined a River Nile Popular Resistance convoy delivered in El Obeid 'in support of the Battle of Dignity'. 13 May 2026: in Atbara the director-general 'affirmed full backing for the armed forces' to the Artillery Corps commander. 4 Jun 2026: SMRC's Blue Nile office 'dispatched a support convoy to the command of the 13th Infantry Brigade' at Bakori, Geissan, 'in support of the Sudanese Armed Forces'.
Why this grade
Grade A is for the fact that the page announced this. The page was identified as official by its name and content; no verification badge was detected.
Response
These are the company's own statements.
Sanctions
None found.
›Research notes
Source alignment: official SAF-side channel. Grade applies to the fact that the announcement was made, not to its content. Page is not badge-verified on Facebook; treated as official because its output is the body's own press material (same texts are carried by the state news agency) and it is referenced by other official pages. This raises the evidence on SMRC from analysis by third parties (grade B) to the company's own announcements. Convoy contents and values are not stated. The US$1.7bn figure is the company's own claim for revenue passed to the treasury, period 'during the year' (2024-25), not verified.
SMRC as gatekeeper for foreign and domestic mining investors, and its ties to army-owned finance (2025-2026)
2025-08 to 2026-09
SMRC's page names the companies it dealt with: Chinese 'Wanbao Sahari' (concession blocks in Red Sea State, 26 Aug 2026) and 'Al-Nawati' (29 Sep 2025); Turkish 'Karub Holding' (1 Sep 2026) and the Turkish ambassador on the 'return of Turkish companies' (25 Aug 2025); Egyptian 'Nabta Mining', described as an ASCOM group company (31 Mar 2026); the Saudi Gold Refinery Company, whose chairman declared 'readiness to enter gold purchasing immediately' (Riyadh, 15 Jan 2026); the Moroccan-owned Manub (6 Jun 2026); DAL Group's entry into gold production (19 May 2026). Domestic ties: talks with Omdurman National Bank on financing miners and gold exports (21 Apr 2026), with Zadna on 'creating markets to control the movement of gold' (20 May 2026), a joint committee with the central bank to monitor gold exports (Jan 2026) and the first official gold consignment to a Sudan Gold Refinery plant in Kassala (30 Sep 2026).
Why this grade
Grade A is for the fact that the page announced this. The page was identified as official by its name and content; no verification badge was detected.
Sanctions
None found.
›Research notes
Source alignment: official SAF-side channel. Grade applies to the fact that the announcement was made, not to its content. Page is not badge-verified on Facebook; treated as official because its output is the body's own press material (same texts are carried by the state news agency) and it is referenced by other official pages. Company names are transliterated from the Arabic posts and were not checked against registers. These are ordinary commercial dealings with the regulator; none is evidence of support to the army. 'Wanbao' matches the name of a mining company of the China North Industries (NORINCO) group; that identification was not verified in this pass.
Collects royalties and oversees gold sector for the Port Sudan (SAF-led) authorities; Chatham House treats gold revenue as central to SAF war financing. No sanctions designation.
Ministry of Minerals' regulatory and revenue-collection arm in SAF-held states (Red Sea, River Nile, Northern). Collects royalties and fees on artisanal and concession gold and supervises exporters; STPT reports the SAF 'leaned on all revenue-generating ministries to maximize their contributions to the war effort'.
Response
No response located in the sources reviewed.
Sanctions
None found in OFAC SDN / EU / UK lists checked 2026-10-03
2 more records below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.
Checked against the document
1
Statements compared with the wording of the primary document.
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Correction: These are gaps, not confirmed absences. The dossier should not publish the chemical-weapons or gold entries without the Sudanese government's position; the Arabic thread notes (via Euronews Arabic, 24 July 2026) that Sudan denies the chemical-weapons finding.
Relationships
9
← means the other party acts on this one; → means this one acts on the other.
Sudan's minerals delegation meets 'Norinco', represented by Norin Mining's general manager, in Riyadh. facebook.com↗
CGrade C: Single source
SMRC director-general visits the General Command and the Armoured Corps and pledges continued 'full support for the regular forces'. facebook.com↗
AGrade A: Official record
Sudanese-Russian joint ministerial commission ends in Moscow with a cooperation protocol. facebook.com↗
AGrade A: Official record
SMRC's Blue Nile office sends a support convoy to the 13th Infantry Brigade. facebook.com↗
AGrade A: Official record
1 more event below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.
1 more event at grade C (single source) or D (unverified lead). Change “Evidence shown” to see it.
Geography
Tags come from the recorded jurisdiction and from place names in the records. Coordinates on the map are approximate.
Based in
Sudan
Also named
Türkiye (3), China (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Egypt (1), Morocco (1)
Places
Port Sudan, Omdurman, Atbara, Kassala, El Obeid, River Nile State, Red Sea State, Blue Nile, Riyadh
Position in the network
Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.
Still connected to the SAF when only official records are counted. Ranks 25 in the file for how often it sits on the shortest documented chain between two others.