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Zim unlikely to seize mine stakes: Mpinga. Apr 28, 2013#183; Political concerns aside, Mwana is ramping up production. Its shares jumped more than 10% last week after an operations update showed a 36,8% increase in gold production from Freda Rebecca, despite a failure in a leach tank where gold is extracted from the ore.
Production of gold at the Freda Rebecca Gold Mine was affected after leach tanks used at the gold processing plant collapsed and ruptured, resulting in a discharge of effluent into the soil beyond the bounded containment area. However, the company managed to restart production within a week after the incident, although at a reduced scale.
Multicommodity miner Mwana Africa on Thursday reported that gold production at its Freda Rebecca gold mine, in Zimbabwe, increased 19% quarteronquarter to 17 536 oz for the three months ended
Mwana Africa is to reopen its Freda Rebecca gold mine in Zimbabwe later this year. The two phase redevelopment and expansion programme will see the mine ramp up from zero to between 40,000 and 50,000 ounces a year, and then to 80,000 ounces a year, in the next 12 to 18 months. Established in 2003, Mwana Africa was the first Africanowned and managed business in the mining sector to be
Freda Rebecca mine in Bindura Mwana Africa is back at normal throughput at its Freda Rebecca gold mine in Zimbabwe following the disruption from a leach tank leak in February. Mwana said it is currently operating an interim solution to achieve full production, but expects to get back to an optimal tank configuration of tanks 1, 2 and 3 over the next few months. During March a total of 50,000
Following the leach tank incident at Freda Rebecca Mine in February, the mine has successfully cleaned up the pulp spillage to the satisfaction of Zimbabwes Environmental Management Authority.
The Freda Rebecca Gold Mine is in Bindura in Zimbabwe. The plant was commissioned in 1988 to process ore from th e Freda and Rebecca pits. The life of the mine was to be 7 years and the plant was designed and constructed accordingly. The process flowsheet is a singlestage
In the 2013 midterm national budget, gold production was revised downwards from 17 tonnes to 15 tonnes largely because of a leach tank breach which affected operations at Freda Rebecca mine in
A typical day at Freda Rebecca would involve stope optimisation from geological block models, updating the design grade tonnage curves, producing production short term and long term plans based on designs. All this i would do under mentorship using Datamine planning software (Studio 3, Mine 24D and EPS).
MWANA Africa Plc local gold mining subsidiary Freda Rebecca has completed the rebuilding its leach tank (No. 3) that was extensively damaged in an accident at the mine in February this year.
Mwana''s Freda Rebecca gold mine in Zimbabwe, having restarted operations in 2009, produced 65,350 ozs of gold in the 12 months to March 2013. In October 2013, Mwana announced that the gold mineral resource at its Zani Kodo project in Democratic Republic of Congo had increased to million ounces.
Mwana Africa does not expect the Zimbabwean governments latest indigenisation promulgation to divert it from its plans to double current gold production at its recently reopened Freda Rebecca mine by the end of this year. Zimbabwes Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act instructs all companies worth more than US500,000 operating in the country to arrange for 51% of their shares or
#0183;#32;Its shares jumped more than 10 percent on Thursday after an operations update showed a percent increase in gold production from Freda Rebecca, despite a failure in a leach tank where gold
The first gold pour took place in 1988. Ashanti Goldfields Zimbabwe acquired the mine in 1996 and underground operations commenced at the Rebecca section in the same year: by 1998, the Freda pit had been depleted and the Freda Rebecca Mine became a fully underground operation. Today Freda Rebecca is providing Mwana Africa with solid cash flow
Its shares jumped more than 10 percent on Thursday after an operations update showed a percent increase in gold production from Freda Rebecca, despite a failure in a leach tank where gold is
At the FredaRebecca mine in Zimbabwe, secondquarter production of 27,214 oz. was slightly lower than in 2001, as maintenance shutdowns at the mill brought throughput down 4%. Metallurgical difficulties with the FredaRebecca ore, and mechanical problems in the mill, had depressed recoveries to 76% in the first quarter, but the repairs have brought recoveries back to 87%.
At approximately 0900h on February 14, one of the leach tanks at the Companys Freda Rebecca Gold Mine in Zimbabwe ruptured and collapsed onto a second, neighbouring tank. This caused structural damage to the two tanks and a discharge of leach tank contents onto the ground surrounding the leach tanks beyond the bunded containment area.
Five workers have been injured and plant processing operations halted at Mwana Africas Freda Rebecca gold mine in Zimbabwe after the collapse of a leach says the tank ruptured and collapsed onto a neighbouring tank, causing structural damage to both tanks and discharging contents onto the ground beyond the bunded containment area.
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