Overview

Mine Type	Underground
Status	Care and Maintenance
Commodities	Gold
Mining Method	Longhole stoping
Production Start	...
Snapshot	The Lily mine ceased operations due to a tragic cave-in occurred near the entrance of a decline shaft on February 5, 2016. The mine has remained closed since the incident in 2016, with ongoing discussions about a potential re-opening. In May 2024, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) approved Vantage Goldfields' application under Section 11 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, allowing the Vantage Goldfields to resume operations at the Lily mine. Vantage Goldfields is expected to sink a decline/shaft to gain access to the underground workings to retrieve the container and the three missing employees at Lily mine.

Deposit type

• Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

The Lily mine is a lode gold deposit along the faulted interface between the Figtree and Onverwacht groups of the Archaean Barberton greenstone belt. The Onverwacht metavolcanics are composed of talc and talc-carbonate schists derived from ultramafic precursors, while the Figtree metasediments comprise interbedded greywacke, shale and chert. The general trend is an east-west strike with asteep southerly dip. The shearing andmineralisation are parallel to the regional fabric. The gold mineralisation is structurally controlled and associated with fine grained pyrrhotite, minor arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite, and with quartz-carbonate veins.

Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Processing

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Production