Eureka Mine - Development & Implementation of a Novel Gravity/Heap Leach Process
P. Bundo; Plant Manager Eureka Mine - Delta Gold Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd. P. Simpson; Director - Peacocke Simpson & Associates (Pvt) Ltd.
May 11th, 2000
The Eureka Mine is situated in the Guruve district of Zimbabwe, some 150 km north of Harare. The mine was first worked in 1895 and until recently was operated as a typical Zimbabwean "smallworking" with a single owner-operator and small labour force mining at up to 50m depth and processing 50 tonnes per day of ore via grind, gravity recovery and CIP. The gravity circuit comprised a Knelson 12" Centre Discharge Concentrator from which a significant but variable portion of production was recovered.
In 1996 exploration was commenced by Delta Gold Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd (DGZ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Gold NL of Australia, with the aim of testing mineralisation and establishing a large-scale open pit operation. A feasibility study was completed in April 1998. Construction began in August 1998 and first gold was poured in June 1999. The mine is designed to produce 65,000 oz/annum of gold from 1.5 million tonnes of opencast ore grading 2 g/t Au.
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