Overview

Mine Type	Underground
Status	Active
Commodities	Gold
Mining Method	Sub-level open stoping (SLOS) Longhole stoping Underhand stoping
Production Start	...
Mine Life	...
Snapshot	Shamva Underground Gold Mine reopened in April 2020 since closure in January 2019. Today (2023) Shamva is producing 45 000 tonnes of ore per month, a figure that was last achieved in 1910. Shamva is expecting to invest a total US$126 million in peak funding for the Shamva Hill open pit project. This is quite a big project. That extensive capital input, a significant proportion of it is going into developing a 220 000 tonnes per month processing facility together with a tailing storage plant. June, 2023 - The Shamva Hill open pit is expected to be fully functional in two years. The project itself has an expected life of 14 years, producing an annual gold production of 2,6 tonnes per year.

Deposit type

• Hydrothermal

Summary:

Shamva Mine is situated in the Shamva greenstone belt and exploits numerous orebodies which occur within a 300- to 400-m wide Riedel-type shear system. The sub-vertical orebodies are indistinguishable from the host rocks. Mineralisation within the orebodies consists predominantly of pyrite (>90%) with minor sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. Gold is found in contact with the sulphides, often in fractures, and varies significantly in grain size with visible gold commonly intersected in development and underground drilling. Silver occurs with the gold and represents some 50% of gold content.

Simplified Deposit Type - Hydrothermal.

Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

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Processing

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Production

Commodity	Units	2023	2022 *	2021 *	2016	2015
Gold	koz	....	....	....	21	25

Operational metrics

Personnel

Job Title	Name	Profile	Ref. Date
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Employees	Contractors	Total Workforce	Year
......	......	......	2022
......			2021