Overview
Stage | Production |
Mine Type | Open Pit |
Commodities |
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Mining Method |
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Production Start | ... |
Mine Life | 2044 |
The Goro nickel-cobalt mine is a fully-integrated mining operation involving an open-pit mine, a processing plant and a port facility. Following the takeover, the Goro facility was successfully restarted with a focus on producing tonnes mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP), a chemical form of nickel and cobalt that can be used in the batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs).
Production numbers have not been publicly available since 2020. |
Source:
Caledonian interests have a majority share of ownership (51% including 30% for the Societe de Participation Miniere du Sud Caledonien SAS (SPMSC) and 21% for employees of Prony resources (with 12%) and local populations (with 9%). Trafigura, the world’s third largest trader of raw materials has 19% ownership. Finally, La Compagnie financière de Prony, which brings together industrial investors, clients and the management of Prony Resources, has the remaining 30% of shares.
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Summary:
The Goro plateau is one of the major areas of lateritic New Caledonia. It consists of oxidized ores of two categories:
Lateritic ore (upper profile), richer in iron oxides.
Saprolite ore (lower profile), or magnesium-silicate mineral.
Summary:
Ore mining on the Goro plateau is made in a open pit mine, worked “in seats.” The first phase of the operation of the mine began with the work of the mining exercise and pit pre-production to prepare the mine to the commercial phase.
15 meters of rock called “sterile” must be stripped before the excavators encountered layers yellow laterite and saprolite containing the analytes: nickel and cobalt.
The extracted ore is sent to the processing unit where it is prepared.
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Reserves at December 31, 2014:
Category | Tonnage | Commodity | Grade |
Proven
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55.3 Mt
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Nickel
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1.34 %
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Proven
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55.3 Mt
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Cobalt
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0.12 %
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Probable
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67 Mt
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Nickel
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1.49 %
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Probable
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67 Mt
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Cobalt
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0.11 %
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Proven & Probable
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122.3 Mt
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Nickel
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1.42 %
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Proven & Probable
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122.3 Mt
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Cobalt
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0.11 %
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Financials:
| Units | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
After-tax Income
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M USD
| ...... |
......
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351
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-572
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