The Nampala deposit appears to be a quartz-carbonate veined mesothermal gold deposit. It is located in arenites affected by a geological accident oriented NE along the border of an intermediary intrusive that has basic components.

The Nampala gold deposit is a quartz veined area, which is mostly known from drilling. The main veins are oriented NNE and dip abruptly to the WNW. There are several stacking veins with conjugate veinlets between the main veins. The gold appears to be free and very finely grained.

Mineralization is mainly found in an arenite-type sedimentary unit and sometimes in the adjacent tonalite to the west. The area is bounded to the east by an argillite sequence with graphite and pyrite bands.

This mineralization has been mapped over an 800 m-long and approximately 300 m-wide area to a depth of 350 m.

The Nampala deposit will be mined using a conventional truck and shovel operation. Since the ore and waste (saprolite layer) are relatively friable. no drilling and blasting will be required. However, a bulldozer will be used to rip the iron-rich crust that covers the saprolite layer.

The proposed Nampala process plant design is based on conventional and well-known CIL technology. The process plant will consists of scrubbing, crushing. Milling, cyanidation by carbon in leach, Zadra elution method is utilized for recovery of gold from loaded carbon. The plant comprises also reagent mixing. storage and distribution facilities, water, air supplies and infrastructures.

The plant was assumed to treat 5 200 tonnes of saprolite per day. Nominal feed grade to the mill would be 0.70 g/t Au, but is expected to vary over the course of operations due to the nature of the ore body. The ore will be sourced from an open pit mine.

The ore from the bin will be withdrawn by an apron feeder to a belt conveyor that feeds a 3 m diam. by 8.8 m long Sepro scrubber. The scrubber has a nominal capacity of 250 tph.

The fraction - 6.25 mm +1.0 mm from the triple deck screen will be directed to a ball mill of 300 HP equipped with a trommel screen. The ore will ........