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Liberia

Kokoya Mine

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Summary

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusTemporary Suspension
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Cut & Fill
  • Transverse stoping
  • Longitudinal stoping
  • Sub-level stoping
  • Drift & Fill
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SnapshotThe Kokoya Gold Mine began as an open pit operation in January 2016 and continued until December 2021. In August 2020, underground mining commenced, but this was suspended in December 2022 due to unfavorable gold prices. The mine was managed by a private equity firm, with operations data not publicly available since then.

Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
Government of Liberia 10 % Indirect
MNG Group 90 % Indirect
Kokoya is owned and managed by Avesoro Holdings Ltd (formerly MNG Gold Holdings Ltd) through it's subsidiary MNG Gold Liberia Inc.

MNG Gold, the privately held Turkish gold exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the completion of the transaction with Amlib Holdings Plc (“Amlib”) to acquire its 90% stake (10% Liberian Government) in the Kokoya Project (“Kokoya”).

Deposit type

  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Metamorphic hosted

Summary:

Kokoya lies within the Liberian Age Province and is dominated by northeast-southwest trending, strongly deformed amphibolite and gneissic units with a volcanic origin. Several episodes of deformation are recorded in the metamorphic rocks, including several generations of cross-cutting folding and faulting, metamorphism and locally inferred unconformities. Certain areas have undergone varying degrees of partial melting resulting in pegmatites and migmatites being observed. A swarm of northwest trending dolerite dykes of Jurassic age intrude the gneisses and amphibolites. A major east-northeast trending zone of intense shearing, the St John Shear Zone, runs through the Project area. A number of east-west narrow ductile shear zones (DSZ) have been identified, which have been preserved as carbonaceous or graphitic shears in some artisanal workings. A series of parallel to sub-parallel northeast–southwest trending Reidel structures have also been field mapped in the Resource Area.

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Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Comminution

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Commodity Production

CommodityUnits2017
Gold koz 58
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational metrics

Metrics2017
Annual milling capacity 0.75 Mt

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

Mine Management

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