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Ghana
Namdini Project

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 Location:
26 km SE from Bolgatanga, Ghana

  Project Contacts:
Durugu Residential Area, Kumbosco
PO Box 350
Bolgatanga
Ghana
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Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Flotation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • AARL elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)
Mine Life13 years (as of Jan 1, 2019)
Latest NewsShandong Gold to seal Cardinal acquisition     January 13, 2021


Owners

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
Cardinal Resources Ltd. 17.44 % Indirect
Shandong Gold Group Co., Ltd. 82.56 % Indirect
January 13, 2021 - Shandong has progressively secured its interest in Cardinal, from nearly 13 per cent to 65.55 per cent within the last month to 82.56 per cent as of two days ago (January 11).

Deposit Type

  • Orogenic
  • Mesothermal


Summary:

The Namdini has many characteristics typical of mesothermal Birimian gold deposits.

The Namdini gold deposit is a large, structurally controlled, orogenic gold deposit within the Nangodi Greenstone Belt, with numerous features similar to deposits found elsewhere in late Proterozoic Birimian terranes of West Africa. To date the Namdini gold deposit has been delineated over a strike length of 1.15 km, up to 300 m wide and 700 m deep.

The rock types comprising the Namdini Gold Project included a steeply west dipping Birimian sequence of interbedded, foliated, metasedimentary and metavolcanic units which have been intruded by a medium-grained granitoid and diorite. The southern part of the Project is covered by flat-lying Voltaian Basin clastic sedimentary rocks that have been deposited unconformably on the Birimian sequence and postdate mineralization and the host sequence.

Underneath the weathering profile, the Birimian units include metasedimentary, metavolcanic, granitoid (tonalite) and diorite. The metasedimentary and volcaniclastic lithologies have been intensely altered with a resulting pyrite-carbonate-muscovite-chlorite-quartz assemblage. Alteration is most prevalent in the volcaniclastic units. Similarly, the tonalite is extensively altered and has been overprinted by silica-sericitecarbonate assemblages.

In all rock types, the mineralization is accompanied by visible disseminated sulfides of pyrite and very minor arsenopyrite in both the veins and wall rocks. In diamond drill core, the mineralized zones are visually distinctive due to the presence of millimetre to centimetre wide quartz carbonate veins that are commonly folded and possess yellow-brown sericite-carbonate selvages. Rare visible gold occurs in strongly altered granite and is associated with sub-millimetre wide silica-sericite shears.

Typical shallow weathered zone:
- Average base of strong oxidation: 7m
- Average depth to fresh bedrock: 15m

Gold mineralisation:
- Localised in the 300-400m wide Namdini mineralised “corridor”
- Dominantly hosted by the three main lithologies located within it: Metavolcanics, granitoid and diorite.

Gold at Namdini is dominated by electrum (80% of measured grains) with the remainder as native gold.

Gold grains are generally fine; QEMScan analysis indicates 89% <10 microns.

Visible gold is rare and usually occurs as a vein selvage with chlorite in late-stage remobilised veins.

Gold dominantly occurs as inclusions and fractures in;
- Pyrite (75%)
- Arsenopyrite (8%)
- Quartz and other silicates (6%)
- Chalcopyrite (2.5%).

Circa 5% of gold grains are free gold.

Sulphides in decreasing order of abundance are:
- Pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena
- Trace sphalerite, molybdenite, pyrrhotite, gersdorffite and tennantite
- Rutile, ilmenite and magnetite are alsob associated with gold mineralised zones
- Pyrite mostly exhibits grain sizes in the 20 to 140 micron range.

Drilling has outlined mineralization with three-dimensional continuity, with a size of approximately 1,500 m long, 550 m wide, and 450 m in depth.

The primary rock is a muscovite rich phyllite that shows extensive carbonate replacement. The phyllite hosts a major sulfide content and significant gold. The fine-grained muscovite shows a moderate preferred orientation and is heavily impregnated with ankerite carbonate.

The dominant ore minerals are pyrite and arsenopyrite that occur relatively commonly through much of the phyllite matrix. Tennantite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, and sphalerite all occur as fines within some pyrites. Magnetite was also detected once.

About 25 occurrences of gold were detected optically. The vast majority occur as inclusions in pyrite. The gold appeared low in silver. These included golds in pyrites that were predominantly under 5 µm, with the exceptions of a linear nature, reaching 25 µm. Most were single particles plus a rare trio.

The host pyrites had a wide range of grainsizes from 50 to 600 µm. Two occurrences of gold were single, fine grains of 2 µm within silicate.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Mining will comprise a conventional hydraulic shovel operation typically using 400 t class excavators in backhoe configuration for mining ore and face-shovel configuration for mining waste. Rigid body Cat 785 (134 t) class dump trucks will be used for hauling ore and waste on designed access roads. An auxiliary mining fleet of dozers, graders, water carts and utility vehicles will support the mining operation.

Mining will be carried out using staged cut-backs with five identified Phases incorporated within the LOM Final Pit. The mining schedule defines movement of ore and waste on 10 m mining benches, by year, for each of the Phases. It is proposed to mine three flitches in the ore (allowing for blast heave), within 10 m benches.

The Namdini Project will be mined on an outsourced contract.

The maximum peak fleet requirements for the Namdini Project are shown in Table 146 with an expected maximum 27 (134 t capacity) rigid haul trucks and four shovels, three in face shovel configuration and 1 in backhoe configuration.

The mine design for the Namdini Gold Project consists of a series of nested conventional open pit layouts with orebody access provided through a series of ramps. For mining purposes, the Namdini orebody can be considered a layered sequence from top down of the following material types:

* Oxide zone, comprising:
- strongly oxidized upper weathered zone
- moderately oxidized zone with total oxidization of sulphides extending to approximately 10 m average depth from surface

* Transition zone with partial oxidization of sulphides extending to approximately 18 m average depth from surface

* Fresh non-mineralized meta-sediment sequence

* Fresh mineralized host sequence of meta-volcaniclastics, granitoids (tonalite), and diorites.

In the Oxide and Transition zones, a mixture of free-digging, ripping and blasting (after drilling) will be used. In the Fresh zone, competent material at depth will need conventional pre-splitting, drilling and blasting to fragment the rock for excavation. The Oxide and Transition zones are limited in extent with the Oxide zone seldom greater than 20 m below surface. The Transition layer appears more pronounced at the southern end of the Final Pit and is of limited thickness throughout the remainder of the planned mining area.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Flotation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Carbon in leach (CIL)
  • AARL elution
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
  • Cyanide (reagent)

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Summary:

The process plant design was based on a nominal capacity of 9.5 Mtpa. The feed will comprise blended ore from the pit consisting predominantly of three rock types being approximately 56% Metavolcanics, 29% Granite and 15% Diorite over the LOM. Oxide material will be fed at the end of the LOM once all Fresh + Transition material is depleted.

The process plant design incorporated the following unit process operations:

*Single stage primary crushing with a gyratory crusher to produce a P80 150 mm.
* Crushed ore feeding a coarse ore stockpile (12 hours live).
* Stockpile reclaim by two apron feeders.
* Two stage SAG / ball milling in closed circuit with cyclones to produce a P80 grind size of 106 µm, including recycle and crush of pebbles from the SAG mill (SABC grinding).
* Gravity recovery includes scalping screens, centrifugal concentrators and an intensive leach reactor and dedicated electrowinning cell to recover gold.
* Rougher flotatio ........

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameterAvg. LOM
Gold Recovery Rate, % 83
Gold Head Grade, g/t 1.13

Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Gold koz 2874,177
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
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Reserves at April 3, 2019:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven 7.4 Mt Gold 1.31 g/t 0.4 M oz
Probable 131.2 Mt Gold 1.12 g/t 4.7 M oz
Proven & Probable 138.6 Mt Gold 1.13 g/t 5.1 M oz
Measured 7.5 Mt Gold 1.31 g/t 0.32 M oz
Indicated 174 Mt Gold 1.11 g/t 6.21 M oz
Measured & Indicated 182 Mt Gold 1.12 g/t 6.53 M oz
Inferred 12 Mt Gold 1.2 g/t 0.46 M oz

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnitsAverage
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Operating Costs:

Units2019
OP mining costs ($/t milled) USD 10.6 *
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* According to 2019 study.
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2019 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
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Processing OpEx $M USD 1,774
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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of October 28, 2019:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantity
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Corporate Presentation 2018
Pre-Feasibility Study Report 2018
Press Release 2018
Corporate Presentation 2017
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News:

NewsDate
Shandong Gold to seal Cardinal acquisition January 13, 2021
Shandong emerges victorious in Cardinal takeover tussle January 4, 2021
Third Cardinal bidder emerges November 25, 2020
Nordgold increases Offer Price to A$1.00 in relation to its UNCONDITIONAL ALL-CASH offer for Cardinal Resources Limited October 21, 2020
Cardinal Resources Limited: Take no Action Increased On-Market Takeover Bid by Nord Gold SE October 21, 2020
Cardinal Resources Limited: Update in Respect of Competing Takeover Offers for Cardinal October 20, 2020
Cardinal Directors Accept Shandong Gold Takeover Offer September 15, 2020
Cardinal Resources Ltd.: Recommended Revised and Improved All-Cash Takeover Offer of Cardinal Resources by Shandong Gold September 8, 2020
Shandong Gold satisfies FIRB Condition August 19, 2020
Cardinal Resources Ltd.: Amended Bid Implementation Agreement – Shandong Gold July 29, 2020
Recommended All-Cash Takeover Offer of Cardinal Resources by Shandong Gold July 27, 2020
Cardinal Resources Ltd.: Revised and Improved Takeover Proposal Received From Shandong Gold July 22, 2020
Cardinal’s Mining Licence Receives Sovereign Ratification July 20, 2020
Cardinal Issues Shares to Shandong Gold July 7, 2020
Recommended All-Cash Takeover Offer of Cardinal Resources by Shandong Gold June 18, 2020
Cardinal Company Update May 4, 2020
Nordgold completes previously announced acquisition of 16.4% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares in Cardinal Resources March 16, 2020
Nordgold confirms acquisition of 19.9% strategic stake in Cardinal Resources; March 15, 2020
Cardinal Files Feasibility Study NI 43-101 Technical Report November 27, 2019
Cardinal Resources Ltd.: Feasibility Study Confirms Cardinal’s Namdini as a Tier One Gold Project October 28, 2019
Cardinal’s Starter Pit Infill Drilling Results July 16, 2019
Cardinal Resources Limited: Addendum to Namdini Ore Reserve Press Release April 18, 2019
Cardinal’s Namdini Ore Reserve Now 5.1 Moz April 3, 2019

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