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Browse the list below for project imagery.Assmang Manganese Mines, Northern Cape Province
Bakerville Diamond Project
Benguérir Phosphates Mine
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One of the Marion 7500 walking draglines used for stripping overburden at... -
Run-of-mine phosphate rock is screened before being sent for further... -
Phosphate processing plant at one of OCP's other operations, Phosboucraa. -
Phosboucraa rock is hauled to Laâyoune by a 98.3km conveyor system. -
Stockpiles at Bourcraâ, which adds 2.4Mt/y to OCP's output. Total OCP...
Bisha Project
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The Bisha Project is located about 150km west of Asmara in Eritrea, East Africa. -
The Bisha mine produces copper, zinc, gold and silver.
Blue Ridge PGE Project, Blaauwbank Farm, South Africa
Boseto Copper Project, Ngamiland, Kalahari Copper Belt
Buffelsfontein Gold Mine
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Ore processing at Buffelsfontein gold mine includes semi autogenous grinding... -
An accident at BGM on 4 May 2010 led to the closure of the Number Five shaft. -
The shaft was recently reopened after remaining closed following a seismic... -
By 2014, Buffelsfontein gold mine is expected to produce 318,000oz per annum.
Bulyanhulu Gold Mine, Kahama, Shinyanga
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Bulyanhulu runs as an underground trackless mining operation. -
Bulyanhulu mine produced 262,034oz of gold in 2011.
Buzwagi Gold Mine, Shinyanga
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Buzwagi is an open-pit gold mine situated six kilometres south-east of Kahama. -
The processing plant at the Buzwagi mine can treat 12,000 tons of ore a day. -
Haul trucks carrying the run of mine ore to the processing facility.
CBG Bauxite (Aluminium Ore) Mining Operations
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CBG’s operations are centred on the town of Boké, 150km north west of... -
Exploration drilling at Bidikoum. -
The CBG mining fleet consists of Demag H185 excavators, Caterpillar 992C and... -
The dried ore at CBG is held in a 150,000t-capacity covered stockpile, and... -
Halco and the Guinean Government signed an agreement over the development of...
Central Ashanti Gold Project
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Central Ashanti gold mine is located approximately 57km south-west of Obuasi. -
Central Ashanti gold mine is owned by Central Ashanti Gold Limited. -
In June 2010, Perseus received approval from the EPA for project construction. -
Production on the Central Ashanti gold mine began in 2011. -
Perseus undertook technical services of the project, including planning...
Cullinan Diamond Mine, Gauteng
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The Cullinan underground mine is installed with the steel work for a stiff brow. -
The Cullian Diamond mine is undergoing a major expansion plan.
Debswana Diamond Mines
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Trucks hauling waste rock at Jwaneng. -
A Bateman semi-mobile crusher at Jwaneng. The machine weighs 1,500t and can... -
One of the recrushing plants at Jwaneng, which takes primary crushed ore and...
Dishaba Mine, Thabazimbi
Doornkop South Reef Project, Gold Mine, South Africa
Finsch Diamond Mine, Northern Cape
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The process and treatment plant. -
The treatment recovery control centre. -
The existing main ventilation fans and the new booster fans will be monitored...
Freda Rebecca Gold Mine
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Freda Rebecca gold mine has proven reserves of 2.4mt. -
Ore is excavated and delivered via dump trucks to the plant site. -
Phase two production rates of 50,000oz/y of gold were achieved by September...
Gaoua Project
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The Auger Drilling programme between the Dienemera and Gongondy deposits was... -
Drilling at Mt Biri is at early stage.
Geita Gold Mine
Goldplat Kilimapesa Gold Project
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The company is engaged in a development programme to enable bulk sampling in... -
The mine has milled around 400t of development ore.
Great Noligwa Gold Mine
Hajar
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Outokumpu tank flotation cells. -
One of the mine’s drilling jumbos. -
The concentrator control room. -
One of the Larox pressure filters. -
The tailings disposal area has been carefully engineered.
Husab Uranium Project, Namib Desert
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The Husaberg RC rig is being used to conduct exploration drilling at the mine. -
Aerial view of drilling in zone 2 of the Husab Project.
Imouraren Uranium Mine
Kalgold Gold Mine
Kalia Iron Ore Project
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Mineralisation extends over a strike length of 40km and is divided between... -
The ore body contains an estimated 6.16bt of inferred JORC magnetite resources.
Kansanshi Copper Mine
Kapulo Copper Project
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The Kapulo copper mine is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo,... -
Ore will be mined using standard open pit methods including drilling and... -
The processing plant will operate at a nameplate capacity of 0.385mtpa of...
Kendal Coal Mine
Kiaka Gold Project
Kimberley Underground, Northern Cape
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Kimberley Underground is located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. -
Ore mined from Bultfontein and Dutoitspan pipes is processed in the Joint...
Kloof
Koffiefontein Mine
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Koffiefontein mine is the largest kimberlite diamond mine in the world by... -
The Koffiefontein mine neighbours some of Kimberley's famous mines. -
The mine holds 17.66mt of proven and 18.48mt of probable reserves. -
The mine produces high-value diamonds. -
The mine is a typical underground operation developed using front cave mining...
Kolomela Iron Ore Mine, Northern Cape
Kusasalethu Mine Project, Far West Rand
Kwale Mineral Sands Project
Lace Diamond Mine (LDM), Kroonstad, Free State
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Aerial view of the Lace Diamond Mine (LDM) located in Kroonstad, Free State,... -
The mine is estimated to have reserves of 35.58mt at an average grade of...
Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine
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The mine was re-launched for operations in 2007 after remaining unused for... -
A stage-two expansion programme was completed in June 2009. -
The mine lies within a 15km-long tertiary paleo-drainage system that contains... -
The mine can produce up to 1,180t of uranium oxide concentrate from 1.5mt of... -
Stage three-expansion started at the end of 2009.
Lumwana Copper Mine
Marampa Haematite Iron Ore Mine
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Exploration activities have identified several iron ore prospects at the... -
Lower-grade Marampa product is higher in demand in the region.
Mareesburg Open Pit Mine
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The Mareesburg mine is located in the Limpopo province in South Africa. -
The deposit lies within the Bushveld Complex.
Marikana Platinum Mine, Rustenburg
Mayoko Iron Ore Project
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The mine's iron is hosted within highly weathered iron-rich metamorphic rocks... -
The Mayoko project is easily accessible with sufficient railways, roads,...
Mbalam Iron Ore Project
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The Mbalam project is estimated to contain more than 800 million tonnes of... -
Exploration drilling being carried out at the Mbalam mine.
Minas Moatize Coal Mine, Tete
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BHR started open-pit mining from the Trial Pit 1 (TP1) in 2011. -
A truck transporting coal to MV Aztec Maiden at the Port of Beira. -
Temporary coal wash plant built at the Minas Moatize mining site.
Moma Titanium Minerals Mine
Morupule Colliery Expansion Project, Botswana
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Morupule Colliery is located in Palapye, Botswana. -
Morupule colliery expansion increased the capacity of the mine to 3.2mtpa.
Mowana
Mponeng Gold Mine, Gauteng
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On-reef development and thus the start of production, are scheduled for 2013... -
Some 5126 people were employed full time at Mponeng in 2007 with 435...
Ngezi
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Hartley has an integrated processing plant, consisting of a mill,... -
Hartley plant flowsheet. The plant currently has a capacity of 180,000t of... -
Pouring matte from the smelter at Hartley Platinum. Final matte contains 44%...
Orezone/IAMGOLD Essakane Gold Mine
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A sample of gold, taken from Orezone's Essakan property, which contains about... -
Burkina Faso's arid, flat, accessible terrain helps Orezone to minimise... -
Orezone's local contractors contribute to the discovery of Burkina Faso's... -
Orezone geologists use PDA to record sampling analysis.
Palabora
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Palabora is situated in north-eastern South Africa, next to the Kruger... -
The Palabora open pit. The very competent rock allows the pit walls to be cut... -
Loading in the open pit, the bottom of which is now over 230m below sea level. -
Underground development, using a twin-boom jumbo to drill the marked-out face.
Platinum Australia Smokey Hills
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Blasted stope ore is scraped down to mucking bays in the reef drives and... -
The processing plant is a standard UG2 plant incorporating milling and... -
The plant has been designed to produce about 95,000oz of 4E PGMs per year.
Platmin Platinum Mine, Pilanesberg
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The laying of foundations for the mills; the processing plant at the... -
The Pilanesberg mining operation will recover all six platinum group...
Putu Iron Ore Project
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Putu mine contains an estimated 2.37 billion tons of iron ore. -
Liberia is on the western coast of Africa. -
Iron ore from the Putu mine will most likely be converted into steel and...
Rössing Uranium Project
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The Rössing Uranium mine, open pit expansion. -
A view from above the processing plant with the lip of the open pit in the...
Sadiola Gold Mine, Mali
Samancor Chrome Mines
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Drilling underground in one of the chromite seams. -
Ore-handling underground at WCM using a load-haul-dump machine. -
Samancor Chrome’s Witbank ferrochrome plant. -
Molten ferrochrome at one of Samancor’s plants. -
Tipping rail cars at the port of Richards Bay - through which Samancor Chrome...
Sandpiper Marine Phosphate Project, Atlantic Ocean
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Unloading samples from the Sandpiper deposit on to MV Smit Madura. -
Shells separated from phosphates of the Sandpiper deposit.
Savuka Gold Mine, Gauteng
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Savuka is the second deepest mine in the world. -
The shaft and infrastructure at the mine, destroyed by a seismic event in...
Sintoukola Potash Project, Kouilou
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Elemental Minerals owns a 93% interest in Sintoukola Potash project. -
Sintoukola project is in an advanced exploration stage with production...
Sishen Mine, Northern Cape
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The Sishen ore undergoes DMS and jig processing at the nearby beneficiation... -
Sishen mine produced 33.7mt of iron ore in 2012.
Skorpion Zinc Mine
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Exploration drilling at Skorpion, undertaken by Reunion Mining. -
The 66/11kV step-down switchyard. Skorpion has increased Namibia's power...
SNIM
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Open-pit mining: ore and waste have to be drilled and blasted before loading... -
A P&H shovel equipped with a 26m³ bucket loading a 200t-capacity haul... -
Trains from the mines to the port are hauled by multiple General Electric... -
The screening and crushing plants at Point Central, where ore is sized for...
Southern Ashanti Mine Gold Project, Ghana
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Drilling at the project site was successfully completed in 2008. -
The Southern Ashanti Gold Project is located 280km west of Accra, Ghana.
Tanlouka Gold Project
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Artisanal sluicing at the Tanlouka project -
Artisanal workings at the project site -
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The Tanlouka project is currently in the initial stage of exploration. -
Phase one drilling program involved drilling of 11 holes.
Target Gold Mine
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A schematic layout, showing how Target is being developed from the old... -
One of the mine’s Tamrock Solo long-hole drill rigs, used for bulk mining of... -
The underground crusher station, commissioned in 2000, crushed run-of-mine...
Tasiast Gold Mine
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The Tasiast is an open pit mine in a prospective greenstone belt. -
The Tasiast mining plant has a processing capacity of 2.5mt/y. -
Kinross is planning to invest about $1.5bn for the expansion of Tasiast... -
The mining fleet of Tasiast includes 120t hydraulic excavators and 90t trucks. -
Commercial production at the mine began in 2008.
TauTona, Anglo Gold
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Air conditioning equipment is used to cool the mine from 55°C down to a... -
TauTona I now the world’s deepest mine.
Trekkopje Uranium Mine
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The Trekkopje mine is a uranium mine located in western Namibia. -
The mine will process 100,000t of ore per day. -
Uranium oxide
Tulawaka Gold Mine
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Tulawaka mine is south-west of Mwanza in the western part of the Lake... -
Open-pit operations at the Tulawaka mine commenced in 2005.
Tulu Kapi Gold Project
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Geologists collecting samples and logging chips at the Tulu Kapi mine. -
Diamond drilling being carried out at Tulu Kapi mine.
Twistdraai
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The conveyor drift at Tristdraai West. -
One of the mine’s Joy HM-series continuous miners. -
Men and materials use the shafts; coal is transported out of the mine by... -
The secondary washing plant (foreground). -
Twistdraai has stockpiling areas for both raw coal blending and for washed...
Union Mine, Rustenburg
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The South Union Mine produced 162,700 ounces of platinum during 2010-2011. -
The North Union Mine produced 91,500 ounces of platinum during 2010-2011. -
A 3D seismic survey was carried out at the mine in 2011 as part of Union...
Venetia Diamond Mine
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The Venetia diamond mine is 100%-owned by De Beers Consolidated Mines. -
After the surrounding earth and rock have been removed to expose the...
Voorspoed Mine
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The Voorspoed mine is located 30km north-east of Kroonstad. -
The mine separates diamonds from the Kimberlite through inter-particle crushing.
Williamson Mine, Shinyanga Province
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The Williamson open-pit mine was acquired by Petra Diamonds from De Beers in... -
The ore produced from the Williamson mine is transported to the diamond... -
The tailings from the Two-Roll Classifier of the main processing plant are... -
The Williamson diamond mine is undergoing a phased expansion aimed at...
Youga Gold Mine
Zambeze Coal Mine, Changara
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Drilling in progress at the Zambeze project. -
Mozambique President Armando Guebuza and Riversdale Mining executive chairman... -
Riversdale coal sample.
Zanaga Project
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The Zanaga iron ore project is located in the Republic of Congo's Lekoumou... -
Core samples from the mine. -
A conventional truck and shovel method will be used to mine the ore.