The Namoya Project lies on the western edge of the Kibaran Mobile Belt (KMB). The KMB is an intercontinental mobile belt which was formed during the Mesoproterozoic between 1.4Ga and 0.9Ga when the supercontinent Rodinia was formed. The KMB is also known as a metallogenic province.

The Namoya Project, even though segmented into separate prospects, boasts one type of gold mineralisation style. The following deposit characteristics have been noted:-
-gold mineralisation hosted within quartz veins and quartz stockworks, striking in a northwestsoutheast direction;

- prevalence of tourmaline crystals within the quartz veins;

- deformation structures within the quartz veins, resulting in irregular sheets, nested vein sets, ladder veins and micro-veinlets, characteristic of shearing;

- no granitic intrusions in the immediate area of the Namoya orebody (as a possible source of tourmaline) although quartz porphyry intrusions have been intersected by drill holes at Namoya Summit and Muviringu signifying potential for a deep seated granitic body; and

- sericite/chlorite schists, sometimes with carbonates, indicative of a magmatic and hydrothermal processes.

The deposit characteristics are typical of the intrusion-related, tungsten/tin-associated type. This class of magmatic-hydrothermal deposits occurs within magmatic provinces best known for tungsten and/or tin mineralization. This type of deposit contains a metal suite that includes some combination of bismuth, tungsten, arsenic, tin, molybdenum, tellurium and antimony and contrasts with that found in more widely-developed goldrich porphyry copper deposits.

Mining operations are based on conventional drill and blast, load and haul mining techniques. Ore is drilled and blasted, and loaded by hydraulic excavators in backhoe configuration, with off highway dump trucks.

Excess RoM is stockpiled on the ROM pad, with low grade ore sent to the low grade stockpile, located approximately 400m from the RoM pad. Stockpiled RoM ore is sorted under a stockpile grade control management scheme, with stockpile reclaim undertaken by a front end loader, and then fed to the crusher as required. Waste material mined is hauled to close-by waste dumps.

Namoya process plant makes use of a hybrid leach design in which a heap leach operation works in conjunction with a gravity gold recovery operation and a CIL plant.

ROM, delivered by 40t trucks, is deposited into a tipping bin fitted with an 800mm static grizzly to prevent oversize material from entering the system. A rock breaker has been installed to ensure that all +800mm feed ore is broken to -800mm size, in line with process specifications. From the tipping bin, the ore is fed onto a 150mm vibrating grizzly using an apron feeder from which the -800+150mm material is deposited into a jaw crusher, which reduces the -800+150mm material to a topsize of 210mm. The resulting -210mm material from the jaw crusher, together with the -150mm from the vibrating grizzly, is conveyed along a 1.5km conveyor belt to the secondary crushing plant.

The -210mm material from the primary crushing plant is deposited onto the primary crushing stockpile whose residence time is 12 hou ........