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Lindi Jumbo Mine

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Lindi Jumbo Mine

Location: 85 W from Lindi, Tanzania

Regional Office:

Cape town Fish Market 3rd floor, Plot No. 180, Msasani Village Block “B”
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
33773

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Graphite
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe high-grade Lindi Jumbo Graphite Project has one of the five largest graphite plants by output tonnes outside of China. Lindi Jumbo products seeing ongoing high demand, with requests for delivery in 2024 exceeding forecasted production.

June 7, 2024 Walkabout Resources Limited ("WKT") announced that it has produced and shipped the first consignment graphite concentrate.

November 12, 2024 was appointment of Administrators of Walkabout Resources and the WKT Subsidiaries. Following their appointment the Receivers immediately undertook and completed a sale and marketing campaign for the sale and / or recapitalisation of WKT and the subsidiaries, which resulted in five (5) Expressions of Interest (EOI). Of the EOIs received, only one was in a form capable of being progressed and considered by creditors at the Meetings, being a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) proposal submitted by Gemcorp Fund I Limited.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Walkabout Resources Ltd. Indirect
Lindi Jumbo Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Lindi Jumbo Ltd remains a registered Tanzanian operating company, the licence holder and the actual operator of the Lindi Jumbo Graphite Project, and continues to advance and operate the project.

Walkabout Resources Ltd is the 100% parent company of Lindi Jumbo Ltd.

Walkabout Resources Ltd has been in voluntary administration with appointed administrators and a receiver since November 2024, and was delisted from the ASX on 28 August 2025 for non-payment of listing fees.

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Deposit type

  • Metamorphic

Summary:

The project area is situated in the Usagaran of the Mozambique belt and consists of graphitic gneisses and schists interpreted to occur along the flanks of various anti- and synforms in the area with the lithological units dipping at between 15 and 50 degrees to the NW and SE.

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Comminution

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Commodity Production

Mining for operational purposes commencing towards the end of the reporting period (30 June 2024).
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All production numbers are expressed as concentrate. * According to 2019 study.

Operational metrics

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Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

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