Specifications - Target Gold Mine, South Africa

Key Data
Producer of	Gold
Location	Between Welkom and Bothaville, Free State province, South Africa
Ownership	Harmony Gold Mining Co. (100%)
Geology type	Precambrian metamorphosed palaeo-placer quartz-pebble conglomerate reef horizons
Mineral type	Native gold plus silver
Reserve base	18.1Mt containing 3.8Moz of gold (proven and
Annual production	350,000oz/y planned over at least 15 years’ mine life
Mining method	Underground trackless mining, including long-hole open stoping, cut-and-fill and drift-and-fill; conventional narrow-stope de-stressing before bulk mining
Processing method	Primary crushing underground, followed by SAG milling, centrifugal gravity concentration, cyanide leaching, carbon-in-pulp adsorption, elution and electrowinning to produce doré bars for refining
Employment	1,000
Key Equipment
Underground	Sandvik development drilling jumbos
	Sandvik Solo long-hole drilling rigs
	Sandvik load-haul-dump machines
	Walter-Becker materials transport monorails
	Decline conveyor system
	Hitachi refrigeration plant
	Prostar communications and mine control system
Concentrator	Nordberg underground crushers
	Svedala SAG mills
	Anglo American Research Laboratories gold electrowinning system
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