The geology of the greater Arcadia area is dominated by greenstone lithologies of the Arcturus Formation of the Harare Greenstone Belt (HGB). These greenstones are encircled and intruded by a variable suite of granitic rocks, the oldest of which may have been intruded at a similar time with the youngest felsic volcanic rocks of the belt. There is also some evidence for a small remnant area of gneissic basement to the greenstone belt.

The HGB takes the form of a complex refolded synform structure, which outcrops in two major limbs.

The E-W trending Arcturus Limb occupies a broad band across the centre of the area, and to the west of the city of Harare this passes via a fold closure into the N-S trending Passaford Limb which is contiguous northwards to the greenstones of the Bindura area.

The main HGB lithological units comprise mainly meta-basalts, banded iron formations, metaandesites, serpentinites, dolerites and the lithium bearing pegmatites that also host beryl, tin and tantalite amongst others.

Four different rock types are found on the Arcadia and Green Mamba claims. These are metabasalt, pegmatite, dolerite and quartz veins, listed from relatively oldest to youngest. The pegmatites comprise the lithium bearing rocks and are of immediate relevance to the Project.

Pegmatite outcrops are coarse to very coarse grained, white to greyish white in colour and blocky in appearance with some oxidation along joint planes. How ........

The current mining schedule developed has been revised to suit operations at 2.4 Mtpa.

Due to the shallowness of the orebody, open pit mining method is the most economic extraction method.

Waste dumps will be located as close as possible to pit exit points to minimise haulage profiles without disrupting the access to the minable resource or crushing plant.

The Main Pit has been designed in four phases to maximise Project discounted cash flow. This includes two small “starter” pits within the first phase pit to be mined at the commencement of operations, thus allowing for the mine schedule to minimise waste mining in the early years and maximise the lithium grades of the ore fed to the process plant, while maintaining practical mining practices including a minimum working width.

Mining operations will be conducted utilising a contracted fleet for key equipment with some ancillary vehicles being supplied by the mine operator. PLZ will be in charge of managing and supervising the contractor to ensure compliance with all business ethics, environmental and occupational health and safety requirements.

It is planned that track mounted diesel hydraulic backhoe excavators will load ore and waste into dump trucks. Ore grading 1% Li2O or more will be transported to the run of mine (ROM) pad where it will be stockpiled in fingers prior to reclamation by front end loader. Lower grade ore will be stockpiled for later processing or blen ........

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