Modern Mining October 2016

MINING News

were well received, earning him a sus- tained standing ovation from the majority of delegates. At a gala dinner on the eve of the Joburg Indaba, South Africa’s very own Mining Hall of Fame was launched, bring- ing the country into line with other major mining jurisdictions such as Canada, the US and Australia which have had their own mining halls of fame for over two decades. The first inductees – announced by Bernard Swanepoel, Chairman of the Joburg Indaba – are Bobby Godsell, Patrice Motsepe, Sipho Nkosi, Gwede Mantashe, May Hermanus, Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka, Brian Gilbertson, Mark Bristow and Barry Davison.  Bissa mine on the border of the rural com- munes of Sabce and Mane, 100 km north of the capital, Ouagadougou. Operated by Bissa’s management team, Bouly is a single open-pit operation.The ore is crushed with primary jaw and secondary cone crushers, followed by agglomeration before stacking on an HDPE-lined pad – designed by Knight Piesold Australia – for irrigation with a sodium cyanide leach solution. Bouly utilises mining equipment and jaw crushers similar to those in place at Bissa to standardise stock holding and optimise maintenance costs. According to Nordgold, Bouly will ben- efit from low cost mining operations due to an excellent average LOM stripping ratio of 0,7 t/t and straightforward heap leach metallurgy with superior gold recovery at 83 %. The mine has its own all-season heap leach facilities with final processing stages, including desorption, electro-winning and smelting, taking place at the Bissa process- ing plant. 

low-grade gold deposit hosting mineral resources of 3,5 Moz at 0,57 g/t and ore reserves of 1,3 Moz at 0,56 g/t. It is located within 5 km of Nordgold’s

the mine, excluding state revenue derived from fuel tax. Bouly is the result of a successful explo- ration programme which identified a large,

Joburg Indaba attracts record turnout A scene from the recent Joburg Indaba, held at the Inanda Club in Johannesburg on 5/6 October. The event, now in its fourth year and increasingly popular, attracted a record turnout of around 550 delegates. Our photo here shows industry experts discussing ‘Innovation and new technolo- gies in mining: Mine of the future.’ Pictured (from left) are Andrew Lane of Deloitte, who chaired the session; Peter Turner, Senior VP, Health, Safety & Environment, Sibanye Gold; Bongi Ntsoelengoe, Technology Manager, Kumba Iron Ore; Fred Cawood, Director, Wits Mining Institute (WMI), Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment,

University of the Witwatersrand; and Sietse van der Woude, Senior Executive, Modernisation & Safety, Chamber of Mines of South Africa. Among the many highlights of the Joburg Indaba was – as most readers will already know – a courageous address by AngloGold Ashanti Non-Executive Chairman Sipho Pityana, who said that cor- ruption was “spreading like an ugly oil slick across our society”. He blamed the ANC government and, in particular, President Jacob Zuma for this state of affairs and said “our young democracy is facing its sternest test yet on a number of fronts.” His views

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