Jacobina mine consists of five underground mine sectors: Canavieiras, Morro do Cuscuz, and Serra do Córrego (North Mining Complex); João Belo and Morro de Vento (South Mining Complex).
The Jacobina mine requires an expansion of its tailings storage capacity to support the current LOM past year 2032 based on existing production schedules. As such, the mine is conceptualizing building and running a filtration plant to handle the tailing that exceeds the current B2 Dam capacity over the LOM and to store it in a filtered tailings stack.
Planned upgrades for 2024 to optimize extraction capacity and support the 8,500 tpd target at 96.0% gold recovery include two new CIP tanks, upgraded leaching and CIP tank agitators, new tailings pumping station and transportation pipes, new secondary crushing screens, and new grinding trash screens. |