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Brazil
Cuiaba Mine (AGA Mineracao Operation)

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 Location:
21 km E from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  Regional Office:
Faz. São Bento S/Nº
Santa Barbara
Brazil
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Cut & Fill
  • Longhole stoping
Processing
  • Gravity separation
  • Calcining
  • Flotation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Merrill–Crowe
  • Cyanide (reagent)
  • Roasting


Owners & OPERATOR

 
CompanyInterestOwnership
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Anglogold Ashanti Corrego Do Sítio Mineracao SA. (operator) 100 % Direct

Deposit Type

  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Banded iron formation


Summary:

The area in which Cuiabá is located is known as the Iron Quadrangle and is host to a number of historic and current gold mining operations, as well as a number of open pit limestone and iron ore operations. The geology of the Iron Quadrangle is composed of Proterozoic and Archaean volcano-sedimentary sequences and pre-Cambrian granitic complexes.

Cuiabá is a “gold-only” Archaean banded iron formation (BIF)-hosted gold deposit. The deposit consists of an intermediate meta-mafic sequence of the Archaean Greenstone Belt type. It is characterised by hydrothermal alteration of the rocks, with the mineralisation occurring mainly in BIF layers, and subordinately in quartz veins or in the host schists. The host to the gold mineralisation is the volcano-sedimentary Nova Lima Group that occurs at the base of the Rio das Velhas Super Group. The upper sequence of the Rio das Velhas Super Group is the meta-sedimentary Maquiné Group. The gold mineralisation at Cuiabá has features and characteristics that are in agreement with the epigenetic orogenic gold deposit model presented for Archaean gold-lode deposits.

Cuiabá mine has gold mineralisation associated with sulphides and quartz veins in BIF and volcanic sequences. Structural control and fluid flow ascension are the most important factors for gold mineralisation with a common association between large-scale shear zones and their associated structures. Where BIF is mineralised the ore appears strongly stratiform due to the selective sulphidation of the iron rich layers. Steeply plunging shear zones tend to control the ore shoots, which commonly plunge parallel to intersections between the shears and other structures.

Apparent intersections of thrust faults with tight isoclinal folds, in a ductile environment, tend to control the mineralisation structures. The host rocks are primarily BIF and secondarily mafic volcanics (mainly basaltic). Mineralisation is believed to be due to the interaction of low salinity, carbon dioxide-rich gold-bearing fluids with the high-iron BIF, basalts and carbonaceous graphitic schists.

Sulphide mineralisation consists of pyrite and pyrrhotite with subordinate arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite; the latter tends to occur as a late-stage fracture fill and is not associated with gold mineralisation. Wallrock alteration is typically carbonate, potassic and silicic, showing clear zonation in the underground environment. The ore is mainly concentrated in the silicic and sulphidation zones, inside the BIF or in potassic (and sericitic) zones near the basalts. The main orebodies at Cuiabá are as follows:
• normal limb: Fonte Grande Sul and Serrotinho • overturned limb: Balancão, Galinheiro and Canta Galo.

Secondary orebodies occur in hydrothermaly altered schists at the footwall of Galinheiro (Galinheiro footwall orebody) and hydrothermaly altered schists/quartz veins near the footwall of Fonte Grande Sul – Serrotinho (quartz vein orebody).


Mining Methods

  • Cut & Fill
  • Longhole stoping


Summary:

Cuiabá mine has two mining methods: cut-and-fill and longhole stoping. To improve the safety and productivity of the operation, in 2011, the mining method was changed from cut-and-fill to longhole stoping (sub-level stoping and variations). Cut-and-fill is still applied in stopes with lower inclination, requiring the use of in-stope pillars in large-width stopes.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Gravity separation
  • Calcining
  • Flotation
  • Concentrate leach
  • Carbon in pulp (CIP)
  • Merrill–Crowe
  • Cyanide (reagent)
  • Roasting

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Summary:

Cuiabá and Lamego Mines feed the Cuiabá Gold (flotation) and Queiroz (roaster, carbon circuit and refinery) plants, currently at 1.7Mtpa for a metallurgical recovery of 93.3%. At Cuiabá Gold Plant, crushing and milling of the ore is followed by flotation and filtration in order to produce a concentrate, which is transported by aerial ropeway to Queiroz for further treatment. Approximately 25% to 30% of gold is recovered through a gravity circuit at the Cuiabá plant. The backfill plant is also located at Cuiabá. The Queiroz Plant is located in Nova Lima, it was built with two different metallurgical routes to treat refractory ore and non-refractory ore it is in charge of pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy. The concentrate is roasted, and the calcine proceeds to a carbon circuit for further refining. The sulphide gas is captured for processing through the acid plant; approximately 230ktpa of sulphuric acid are produced as a by-product.

Gold production process starts at Cuiabá ........


Combined production numbers are reported under AGA Mineracao Operation

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Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Proven & Probable 6.75 Mt Gold 6.04 g/t 1.31 M oz
Proven & Probable 6.75 Mt Sulphur 5.2 % 774 M lbs
Total Resource 21.93 Mt Gold 7.45 g/t 5.26 M oz
Total Resource 21.93 Mt Sulphur 5.3 % 2,565 M lbs


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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Annual Report 2017
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2017
Annual Report 2016
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2016
Fact Sheet 2015
Other 2015
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2015
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