• Data Access
  • Your Email  
  • Your Email  
Keep me signed in.
Forgot your password?
Close
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Enter the email you signed up with and we'll email it to you.
  • Your Email  
Close
Back
MDO
Mining Data Solutions
  • Home
  • Database
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
  • Sign In
Philippines
Balabag Mine

This page is not tailored to
devices with screen width under 750 px.
 Location:
54 Km NW from Pagadian, Philippines

  Regional Office:
22F BDO Equitable Bank Tower 8751 Paseo de Roxas, Salcedo Village
Makati
Philippines
1226
Phone  ...  Subscription required
Fax+63 2 7728-8515
EmailEmail
WebsiteWeb
Additional Resources for Suppliers & Investors
Drill results over 30 g/t Au
Stay on top of recent discoveries.
Search drill results by commodity and grade.
Largest mines in the Americas
Mining and mill throughput capaciites.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Deepest underground mines
Shaft depth and mill throughput data.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Heavy mobile equipment
HME type, model, size and quantity.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Permitting and construction projects
Projects at the permitting or construction stage. Full profiles of select projects.
Mines with remote camps
Camp size, mine location and contacts.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
Mines & projects in Philippines
A list of country's mines and projects.
Full profiles of select mines and projects.
  • Overview
  • Owners
  • Geology
  • Mining
  • Processing
  • Production
  • Reserves
  • Fleet
  • Personnel
  • Filings & News

Thank you for browsing through mine profiles compiled by the Mining Data Online team.

Would you like to subcribe or schedule a Demo?
  • Name:
     
  • Company:
     
  • Position:
     
  • Phone:
  • Email:
  • Message:

Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Gold
  • Silver
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mine Life2027
Sept. 30 - TVI Pacific Inc. ("TVI" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that gold production has commenced at the Balabag gold and silver project.

The Balabag Gold-Silver Project will expand the mining area from 13.5 hectares to 35 hectares and the annual extraction rate from the current 2.0 Million Metric Tonnes to 11.0 Million Metric Tonnes and increase the mine processing facility throughput from 2,000 TPD to 2,500 TPD. As a result of increased extraction rate, the waste dump area and tailing storage facility will also increase correspondingly. The Expansion Project will also expand the area coverage of the current Project from 189.4 ha to 2,177 ha located within the MPSA Area.


Owners

Source: p. 23
CompanyInterestOwnership
TVI Pacific Inc. 30.66 % Indirect
TVIP has a 30.66% interest in TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. (“TVIRD”), a private Philippine resource company with operations, development and exploration projects in the Philippines, including Balabag, which is 100% owned by TVIRD.

Contractors

Subscription required - Subscription is required.


Deposit Type

  • Epithermal
  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork


Summary:

The Balabag gold-silver mineralization is interpreted as a low-sulphidation epithermal vein system hosted in andesitic lava flows and pyroclastics. Multiple-stage massive to crustiform banded fracture-fill and breccia cement assemblages mostly comprising of chalcedonic to mosaic quartz, in paragenetic association with less abundant adularia, chlorite, illite and carbonate enclosing and dispersed with only minor amounts of sulphide, define a lowsulphidation epithermal environment of precious metal mineralization. The hydrothermal fluid flow and resulting mineralization have taken place at around 220 to 240°C.

Three major quartz vein systems identified in the Balabag Hill area are the Tinago-Unao-UnaoYoyon veins to the north, Miswi veins in the east and Lalab veins to the south. The veins exhibit various epithermal quartz vein textures such as colloform, crustiform, massive, drusy, vuggy, comb and cockade textures. Multiphase brecciation textures are also dominant probably because of several pulses of rising hydrothermal fluids. Quartz stringers and quartz stockworks also occur adjacent to most quartz veins ranging from hairline to centimeter sizes. The geometry of the veins and the associated stockworks is generally subhorizontal at the Tinago and Miswi areas while a sub-vertical attitude of veins is exhibited in the Lalab area.

The known mineralization zones at Balabag Hill area either have an east-north-east (Tinago and Unao-Unao), northeast (Miswi) or ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The deposit will be mined using the side cut mining method. It is conceived that the mining unit operations of drilling, blasting, loading and hauling will apply to the Balabag Au-Ag Project.

The deposit will be mined using the side cut technique and will be patterned after Canatuan gossan and sulphide projects’ model of contract mining. The mine will be developed in a series of pushbacks instead of applying the simple ‘top-down’ mining, to minimize the initial stripping requirement and associated costs. The pit will be free-draining. Mining is planned such that no water will accumulate within the pit. Runoffs will be diverted through channels into the tailings storage facility.

Dozers will be utilized for mine development, floor maintenance of active mining areas, ore stockpile and waste dump maintenance, and rehabilitation works. Road grader, vibratory compactor and water truck will be utilized for ancillary activities like maintenance of mine haul roads, the mine-ROM haulage road and all access roads on the project site. All mining equipment will be provided by the mining contractor on a lease arrangement. Since mining operation will be subcontracted, no acquisition of the mobile and heavy equipment will be done since the mining contractor will provide all the mining equipment.

Waste rock excavated from the mine will be loaded in dump trucks and stored in the overburden stockpile (mine waste dump). The pile of waste rock will be spread and ........


Crushing and Grinding
Source: Subscription required

- subscription is required.


Processing

Flow Sheet: Subscription required

Summary:

- subscription is required.


Production:

CommodityUnits2021
Gold oz  ......  Subscription required
Silver oz  ......  Subscription required
Gold Equivalent oz  ......  Subscription required
All production numbers are expressed as metal in doré.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics2021
Waste  ......  Subscription required
Daily processing capacity  ......  Subscription required
Daily processing rate  ......  Subscription required
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Reserves at May 15, 2021:
The estimated Mineral Resource using a cut-off grade of 0.4 g/t AuEq.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Measured 3,016,143 t Gold 1.8 g/t
Measured 3,016,143 t Silver 50.8 g/t
Measured 3,016,143 t Gold Equivalent 2.48 g/t 241,000 oz
Indicated 1,338,029 t Gold 1.74 g/t
Indicated 1,338,029 t Silver 25.69 g/t
Indicated 1,338,029 t Gold Equivalent 2.08 g/t 90,000 oz
Measured & Indicated 4,354,172 t Gold 1.79 g/t
Measured & Indicated 4,354,172 t Silver 43.08 g/t
Measured & Indicated 4,354,172 t Gold Equivalent 2.36 g/t 331,000 oz
Inferred 140,919 t Gold 2.78 g/t
Inferred 140,919 t Silver 64.11 g/t
Inferred 140,919 t Gold Equivalent 3.63 g/t 16,000 oz



Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of October 15, 2019:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantityLeased or
Contractor
Bulldozer ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Leased
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Sep 12, 2022
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Sep 12, 2022
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required Subscription required Sep 12, 2022
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Staff:

EmployeesYear
Subscription required 2022

Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Corporate Presentation 2022
Environmental Assessment 2022
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2021
................................... Subscription required 2020
................................... Subscription required 2020
................................... Subscription required 2019
Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Subscription required - Subscription is required.

Terms of Use Privacy Policy © 2017-2023 MDO Data Online Inc.