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February 2016
MODERN MINING
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MINING News
True Gold Mining Inc, listed on the TSX-V,
has provided an update on its Karma gold
mine in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
According to the company, construc-
tion at Karma is approximately 94 %
complete with commissioning being
the major activity on site. Over 500 000
tonnes of stockpiled ore will provide the
initial feed to the fully commissioned soft
rock crusher, agglomeration and stacking
circuit.
Ore has been introduced into the
crushing and agglomerating circuits and
agglomerated ore is being stacked on the
leach pad.
Piping and solution collection systems
for leach pad cells 1 to 3 have been com-
pleted with the installation of the last of
the HDPE lining for the pad to pond inter-
face. Cell 1 is receiving agglomerated ore,
while Cells 2 and 3 will be completed in the
coming weeks, with final placement of the
drainage layer underway. Cells 4 through 9
are levelled and are ready for HDPE lining
installation.
The ADR plant is very well advanced
with the final installation of piping, elec-
True Gold starts to stack ore on leach pads at Karma
A recent view of the Karma site with cement silos in the foreground (photo: True Gold).
trical and instrumentation remaining. The
main construction focus is now on finish-
ing the gold roomwhere all the equipment
is in the building ready to be placed in
position once the second floor brickwork
and plastering is completed.
Site structural steel work is complete,
and the remaining civil works are limited
to the gold room and minor infrastructure
items.
Galane files technical report on Galaxy assets
Galane Gold, which is listed on the TSX-V
and owns the Mupane gold mine near
Francistown in Botswana, has filed an
NI 43-101 technical report – prepared
by Minxcom – for its Galaxy gold mine
in South Africa. The mine is owned by
Galaxy Gold Reefs (Pty) Ltd, a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Galaxy Gold Mining
Limited. Galane recently acquired a 74 %
ownership interest in Galaxy.
The Galaxy mine is located approxi-
mately 8 km west of the town of
Barberton and 45 km west of the pro-
vincial capital of Nelspruit (Mbombela)
in Mpumalanga Province and covers an
area of 5 863 ha. The mine comprises 21
east-west trending gold orebodies and
four prospects at 600 to 2 000 m depth.
Gold has been prospected at the mine
since the 1880s and Agnes – one of the
orebodies – has been exploited as an
established mine since 1908. Currently,
over 75 historical adits exist within the
mining area, as well as tailings storage
facilities consisting of previously mined
and processed material. To date, the
mining assets have produced over one
million ounces of gold.
Galaxy’s existing processing plants
are in need of refurbishment and consist
of crushing, milling, flotation, biologi-
cal oxidation of flotation concentrate,
CIL leaching, elution, smelting and tail-
ings disposal facilities designed to treat
16 000 tonnes of ore per month. They can
be expanded through refurbishment and
the introduction of larger mills and flota-
tion equipment.