Mining is planned here using conventional open pit techniques with a carbon-in-pulp processing plant.
There will be four open pits.
The pit slopes have been engineered to industry standards of stability for the range of lithologies present Namarana, following risk management principles.
Grade control is affected by drilling 10 metre long vertical holes on a 10 metre by 5 metre grid.
Ore will be transported to the ore stockpile located one kilometre from the pit and waste is disposed of in dumps adjacent to the pit.
Approximately 70% of ore will be stockpiled before processing
The ore stockpiling facility going to be
located between the pit and the process plant and its purpose is twofold.
Primarily, the area allows
stockpiles of ore with differing oxide and sulphide mineralogy, gold grades, hardness, viscosity levels to
be laid down separately
y. Ore is reclaimed from the stockpiles and fed into the process plant on a blended
basis contributing to the efficiency of the process plant and maximising gold recovery.
The second
function of the stockpile is to provide a reserve of ore to sustain feed when pit operations are affected by external factors such as heavy rains
