Discovery Metals Limited announces the completion of the PFS for its Boseto Copper Project (previously the Maun Copper Project) in north-west Botswana. The PFS for the Boseto Copper Project (Project) commenced in October 2007 and was completed on time and on budget. ... Average plant production 23,500 tonnes of copper and 780,000 …
The Boseto Copper Project is located in north-west Botswana. The project is located on 1 of 14 granted tenements totalling over 10,100 square kilometres. This lightly explored and undeveloped portion of the Kalahari Copper Belt, with less than 330 km of a potential 1,300 strike kilometre length explored to date.
Production at Los Pelambres increased in 2023 as a result of increased water availability following the completion of construction of the Company's desalination plant during the year, and subsequent ramp up. ... Copper production for 2023 was 300,300 tonnes, 9% higher than the prior year. This increase was driven by increased throughput rates ...
Discovery said on Monday it expected the Boseto project's annual copper output to reach 25,600 tonnes and silver production to reach 691,000 ounces starting in mid-2011. [ID:nLJ148492].
approximately early 2015. ... positioned to deliver on its long stated goal to commence production of copper – silver concentrate in 2011 and be in full production in 2012. ... Discovery Metals' Boseto copper project ( owned) is located in north‐west Botswana, approximately 80 ...
BY PORTIA NKANI. Boseto mine, near Maun is set to return to production in the first quarter of 2021, Sunday Standard has been informed. This comes after the company that owns the mine Khoemacau announced in February 2019 that they have raised over P6 billion to complete associated mining infrastructure projects that will see …
"The ore produced at Zone 5 is trucked to the BOSETO concentrator which has been upgraded to a capacity of 3.6 Mtpa", Babusi said. Babusi further shared that their operations have an annual production capacity of between 155 and 165 000 t of high-grade concentrate containing approximately 60 000 t of copper metal and 1.9 Moz of …
Aug 07, 2012· Discovery Metals is making good progress on the commissioning and the ramp up of copper-silver concentrate production at its owned Boseto copper project in northwest Botswana. It is designed to produce an average of some 36,000 t/y copper and 1.1 Moz silver in concentrate from 3 Mt/y of ore feed.
Assuming a long-term copper price of US$2.38/pound for copper suggests an internal rate of return (IRR) of 23%, with a post-tax net present value (NPV) of US$115 million and pay back of 3.5 years ...
When completed, Somelo and Boseto are expected to employ 800 workers at full production. Furthermore, since the region which hosts the copper rich Kalahari Copperbelt is currently not connected to the power grid, Khoemacau is also in negotiations with the government over the connection of the northwest region to the national grid.
The success of an early 2015 drilling programme on Zone 5 demonstrated the potential for a much larger resource along strike and at depth, which would support a production rate well about the 3.6 Mta planned for the Starter project. A 100 Mt resource (43% is measured and indicated) with 2% copper and 20 g/t silver has been defined for …
Latest Developments Production of the first copper-silver concentrate from KCM's Boseto process plant has started. First copper concentrate was produced on June 30, 2021.
Report summary. Dikulushi copper mine started production back in 2002 as an open pit operation, producing copper-silver concentrate. The operation was placed on care and maintenance in January 2015. JCHX Mining Management acquired Dikulushi operations from Anvil Mining Congo for $2.75 million in August 2019. Operation was …
In 2015, the total production amounted to 40,154 tonnes from BCL, Messina Copper, Discovery Metals and Boseto, with some minor production of silver as a by-product (Table 3). Historical production estimates are provided in the physical accounts section. Table 3: Base metal mineral production statistics, 2015. BCL.
Boseto Upgrade The Boseto concentrator's capacity will be upgraded from its current three-million tons a year to 3.65-million tons a year to treat Zone 5 ore.
The Boseto copper deposits are the first deposits within the Kalahari Copperbelt to go into commercial production since the closure of the Klein Aub Mine in Namibia in 1986. Schwartz et al. (1995) conducted the first in depth study at Boseto (previously referred to as the Ngwako Pan copper deposits).
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It will have an annual production capacity of between 155 and 165 000 t of high-grade concentrate containing approximately 60 000 t of copper metal and 1.9 Moz of silver. Khoemacau is not entirely a Greenfields project as it will incorporate the Boseto concentrator, which Khoemacau Copper acquired in 2015 after the demise of Discovery …
KCM is advancing the Zone 5 project towards startup in 2018, and current study work suggests that an annual average production rate of up to 80,000 tonnes of copper and 1.8 million ounces of ...
February 27, 2015. Friday. Toteng, near Maun. It is uncharacteristically cold for a February morning in the North West District. Members of staff of the Boseto Copper Mine and those of the sub-contractors have been asked to leave the mine compound with immediate effect. There is shock, and then confusion, and staff, over 800 of…
Flexural-slip folding induced remobilization of bedded diagenetic sulphides: petrographic, stable isotope, and Re-Os geochronology evidence from the Boseto sedimentary rock-hosted copper deposits ...
Processing capacity increased from 3.65Mtpa to over 8Mtpa, with construction of a new 4.5Mtpa new concentrator at Zone 5, and continuation of Boseto processing at 3.65Mtpa Total project capex of c.$600m, with low capital intensity of <$7,000/t of run-rate payable copper equivalent production
Production at troubled Boseto Copper Mine fell by 13 percent in the last three months of 2014, as the mine continues to struggle ahead of its closure in June this year.
The raise of the tailings facility for the Boseto Copper Mine, impacts the integrity of the TSF through its life span of 10 to 15 years. *The Aurecon Africa business has been officially renamed Zutari as at 21 July 2020. Zutari acquired Aurecon Middle East on 20 November 2020. The existing tailings facility at the mine has been built to the top ...
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The ore is processed at the nearby Boseto process plant (which was acquired out of provisional liquidation back in 2015) which Khoemacau Copper Mining refurbished and metallurgically and volumetrically upgraded from 3 Mtpa to 3.6 Mtpa, and now includes an improved floatation circuit. ... the mid-term plan aims to expand …
The Khoemacau copper project, located in the central Kalahari copper belt some 65 km south-west of Maun, is developing underground operations at its flagship Zone 5 deposit. The mine plan involves three adjacent underground mines at Zone 5, each producing over 1.2 Mtpa in their first five years of production. Read more about base …
Boseto copper operation, Botswana. 3rd July 2015 By: Sheila Barradas - Creamer Media Research Coordinator & Senior Deputy Editor
At the same time, crushing, milling at production of copper-silver concentrate commenced at Boseto in June 2012. July results and commissioning progress showed approximately 1,440 tonnes of copper-silver concentrate was produced in July at an average grade of 37 percent Cu and 630 g/t Ag.
Comprising a measured, indicated and inferred resource of 92 Mt of copper containing high-grade 2.2% copper and +22 g/t of silver, Zone 5 will deliver 3.65 Mtpa of ore to the Boseto processing facility which will produce +60 000 tpa of copper and 2 Mozpa of silver (in concentrate).
In 2017, Botswana's coal production increased by 18% and gold, by 10%. Mined copper production decreased by 90% and soda ash, by 19%. Palladium, platinum, and silver production was shut down in 2015, and cobalt, smelted copper, and nickel production was shut down in 2016. Data on mineral production are in table 1 (Kenalemang …
production was about 62,000 metric tons per year (t/yr) of copper and 59,000 kilograms per year (kg/yr) of silver in concentrate. CCC planned to start production by mid-2021 (Cornish, 2017a; Benza, 2019b). CCC planned to use the concentrator from the Boseto Mine to process ore from Khoemacau; capacity at the concentrator
Located in the Kalahari Copper Belt, the Khoemacau copper mine has an annual copper equivalent production of 50,000 to 65,000 tonnes with a near term expansion to 135,000 to 155,000 tonnes. ... "Having successfully completed the ramp up of the Zone 5/Boseto operations, the company will now be focused on the expansion …
42% copper. C-1 cash production costs, net of by-product credits, are estimated to be in the range of $0.90 to $0.95 per pound of copper. Capital intensity of $6,500 per tonne of copper equivalent annual production is about half of industry average for brownfield projects of $12,000. Additional Resources
In 2015 it purchased the neighbouring Boseto property, including a new 3 Mt/a concentrator which was commissioned in 2012 by Australia's Discovery Metals, and a Tailings Storage Facility (TSF). ... Ultimately, he said, a yearly production of 180 kt/a plus of copper was possible based on current resources over the entire property area ...
The Boseto mine and processing plant, initially discovered and developed by Discovery Metals Limited (bought by Cupric Canyon Capital in 2015) is an important part of Khoemacau's operation even though the processing plant with its associated infrastructure is only being used by Khoemacau in the interim.
