Modern Mining April 2022

MINING News

Anglo American partners with EDF Renewables for renewable energy supply

Ang l o Ame r i can has signed a Memorandum of Understanding wi th EDF Renewab l e s , a global leader in renew able energy, to work towards developing a Reg i ona l Renewab l e Energy Ecosystem (RREE)

Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani.

in South Africa. The ecosystem is expected to be designed to meet Anglo American’s operational electricity requirements in South Africa through the supply of 100% renewable electricity by 2030, thereby also supporting the resilience of the local electricity supply systems and the wider decarbonisation of energy in the country. Anglo American has already secured 100% renewable electricity supply for all its operations in South America, resulting in 56% of its global grid supply expected to be sourced from renewables by 2023. In South Africa, while there is an abundance of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, there is limited renewables infra structure to harness it. As Anglo American progresses towards its 2040 target of car bon neutral operations, this partnership with EDF Renewables is designed to abate the largest single source of its Scope 2 emissions, being its current grid supply in South Africa. The RREE aims to support South Africa’s decarbonisation ambitions

Anglo American is targeting carbon neutrality across our operations by 2040

and the country’s Just Energy Transition, creating a sustainable and inclusive future. Mark Cutifani, CEO of Anglo American, said: “We are targeting carbon neutral ity across our operations by 2040 and we are making good progress. This announcement is a further major step towards addressing our on-site energy requirements – the largest source of our

operational emissions. Our partnership with EDF Renewables to address our Scope 2 footprint in South Africa complements our FutureSmart Mining programme’s abate ment of our Scope 1 emissions through low and zero emission technologies, including our hydrogen haul truck system, and the development of South Africa’s Hydrogen Valley.” 

Second rig accelerates drilling at Gogbala prospect on Napié Project

ASX-listed gold explorer, Mako Gold has commenced a 1,500 m diamond dr i l l programme at the Gogbala Prospect within the company’s flagship Napié Project in Côte d’Ivoire. Gogbala is located on the more than 23 km soil anomaly and coincident 30 km-long Napié Fault. The diamond drill rig will supple ment the RC rig which is currently drilling double shifts at Gogbala. This will accelerate drilling for the delivery of the maiden MRE for the June quar ter 2022. The diamond drill rig will drill extensional holes below positive inter cepts returned from previous drilling by the company, with the aim of extend ing mineralisation at depth and thereby

adding ounces to the upcoming MRE. Mako’s MD, Peter Ledwidge com mented: “We are pleased to be accelerating the drilling with the addition of a second drill rig at Gogbala. Our RC drilling to date has been relatively shallow, generally down to about 100 m vertical depth. The diamond drill rig will allow us to test mineralisation at greater depth, in order to show the poten tial to add ounces to the deposit at depth. In addition, the oriented core samples from diamond drill will unlock valuable structural and other geological information to better understand the deposit at Gogbala. We are also pleased to have recently completed over 11,000 m of AC drilling on the Komboro and Tchaga North prospects with the aim of making a new discovery at Napié.” 

Drilling at K.Hill project.

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