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Bougouni Mine

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Bougouni Mine

Location: 13 km SW from Bougouni, Mali

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4th Floor Prince Frederick House, 35-39 Maddox Street
London
United Kingdom
W1S 2PP

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Lithium
  • Spodumene
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Bougouni project is being developed in two stages. Stage 1 is a low capex operation based on a DMS processing route while Stage 2 will see the construction of a much bigger capacity flotation plant.

11 February 2025, Kodal Minerals announced that first spodumene concentrate has been produced at Bougouni Lithium Project. First production of spodumene concentrate was achieved during the commissioning phase of the full Stage 1 Dense Media Separation ("DMS") processing plant with the introduction of pegmatite ore into the processing circuit.
Latest NewsKodal Minerals plc: First spodumene concentrate produced at Bougouni and Project Update     February 11, 2025

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Kodal Minerals plc 49 % Indirect
Hainan Group 51 % Indirect
The Bougouni Lithium Project is being developed by the mining company Les Mines de Lithium de Bougouni SA (“LMLB”), a subsidiary of Kodal Mining UK Limited ("KMUK"), which is 51% owned by Hainan Group and 49% by Kodal Minerals.

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Deposit type

  • Pegmatite

Summary:

The Bougouni Lithium Project is located in the Birimiyan region of West Africa. The region consists of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of Birimiyan age that are intruded by granitoids and spodumene-bearing pegmatite dikes and sills.

The Bougouni Lithium project has the following deposits: Soghol-Baule, Boumu and the unexplored deposits of Kola and Bougouni-Pivdenny.

Most of the assays for the drilling programme have been received since the period end and, as has previously been reported, have confirmed the continuity and depth extension of the core pegmatite veins that mark the extension of the Boumou prospect. The drilling programme has also highlighted a fault zone that may control an offset of the pegmatite zone and highlight further exploration opportunities.

The spodumene (lithium) pegmatite mineralisation at Goulamina occurs as two, well defined, broadly parallel and highly continuous dykes; the Main Zone and West Zone.

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Comminution

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Production

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual (Projected)
Lithium kt 125
All production numbers are expressed as oxide.

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Heavy Mobile Equipment

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