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GOLD
April 2016
MODERN MINING
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project
offers fast payback
A drill rig in action during a recent drill programme at Kobada for metallurgical and geotechnical testwork.
General layout of the proposed mine at Kobada.
of ore near the base of oxidation. The calculated
recovery of gold for this sample was 80,1 %.
While this is lower than the 2014 testwork pro-
gramme, which recovered 89 % of contained
gold, the 2014 sample was sourced from the
top 20 m of the saprolite orebody. African Gold
believes the difference between the two is likely