The Passendro gold project is envisioned as a conventional openpit gravity carbon-in-leach operation, with a mine production rate of three million tons a year. The mine will produce an average of 203 000 oz/y, in just under six years, at an average operating cost of $ 379 / oz, including royalties.
The Liqhobong deposit has a total indicated and inferred resource of about 90.82 million tonnes, containing as estimated 29.75 million carats. An updated definitive study on Liqhobong has confirmed the robust economic of the project. The study shows the project could recover 1.15 million carats a year.
Areva is drilling and expects to commence feasibility studies at its 90%-owned Bakouma uranium project in the the Bakouma Basin, 100km North of Bangassou in the Central African Republic, shortly. This entire project is to cover an area of 2 900km². To date it comprises ten deposits in close proximity
Construction of a new shaft complex on the farm Klipgat 281 JQ and additional infrastructure and services including an access road, a railway line between the operation and the existing siding, service pipelines, power supply lines and a waste rock dump. A new ventilation shaft, extensions to the existing
Construction of a new calcine waste disposal facility (WDF) at the Vanchem plant, a division of Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Limited. The plant is in the Ferrobank area near Emalahleni (Witbank), Mpumalanga. The current calcine WDF will reach its full capacity by the end 2009, beginning 2010
The Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt deposits comprise one of the world's largest know copper/cobalt resources, and are capable of being developed into a large-scale, long-life, low-cost mine. The mining method will be openpit, using conventional methods in waste and a continuous miner in ore to maximise
Foskor, the fertilizer makers, will spend R500 million to open a new phosphoric rock mine in Phalaborwa, in Limpopo Province. R200m will be spent on the mine and R300m will go towards a conveyor belt, which will take production from 2,6-million tons a year to 2,9-million tons.
Development of a prospecting shaft for bulk sampling purposes at its Akanani Mine prospecting area north of Mokopane, Limpopo Province. The prospecting shaft is required to determine the metallurgical properties of the Plat reef at the Akanani Project area. To achieve this, Lonmin proposes to sink a
Construction of two new 60 mega-watt (MW) Direct Current (DC) furnaces, M5 and M6, at Middelburg Ferrochrome, in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. This will increase production of low silicon ferrochrome at MFC to about 200 000 tonnes.