Narrow Vein Mining Citicorp
Narrow Vein Mining Citicorp
Narrow Vein Mining Citicorp
1000 km
625 miles
Rai
lw
ay
4 kilometres
Decline
portal
Warrior Mine
Stockholm
mine
Washington
mine
Warrior
X mine
Processing
Plant
Tailings dam
0
km
Decline
portal
Warrior Mine
Stockholm
mine
Washington
mine
Warrior
X mine
Processing
Plant
Tailings dam
0
km
Development Plan
Warrior mine & gold resource Long section
Development Plan
Warrior gold resource drilling Cross Section
Cross section
Looking West
BENEFITS OF MECHANISED
NARROW VEIN MINING
Low mining cost per ounce
low tonnage to break, haul and mill
high grade per tonne 13 g/t
floor of drive preserved
Mining method:
Longhole open stoping
10m sub-levels
BENEFITS OF MECHANISED
NARROW VEIN MINING
Low mining cost per ounce
low tonnage to break, haul and mill
high grade per tonne 13 g/t
floor of drive preserved
Mechanised
Cut and fill
Shrink stoping
Mining method:
Longhole
open
Expansion
slot stoping
by
vertical
crater retreat
10m
sub-levels
BENEFITS OF MECHANISED
NARROW VEIN MINING
Low mining cost per ounce
low tonnage to break, haul and mill
high grade per tonne 13 g/t
floor of drive preserved
Grade variation
1.1 g/t Au
9.6 g/t Au
7.0 g/t Au
0.2m
0.1m
0.7m
CHALLENGES
Dilution planned and unplanned
Planned
dilution
Ore
Unplanned
dilution
Overbreak
Cross section
Ore Sorting
Dilution removed by ore sorting
Feed screened
and washed
ORE
WASTE
Photometric ore sorter
CHALLENGES
Dilution planned and unplanned
Multiple working faces required
Extraction levels
Extraction levels
CHALLENGES
Dilution planned and unplanned
Multiple working faces required
Flat-dipping stopes difficult mucking
Mining Costs
Materials
$/Tonne
Ore
Labour
$/Tonne
Ore
Total
$/Tonne
Ore
Total
$/oz
Production
13
16
29
77
Development
23
29
74
Sub-total
36
22
58
151
10
17
45
SURFACE HAULAGE
ADMINISTRATION
21
52
33
85
222
MINING
PROCESSING
TOTAL COST
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