New Luika is an Open Pit and Underground mining operation.
Open Pit Operations - Four open pits are planned to be mined as per the current Life of Mine Plan, namely: Porcupine South, Elizabeth Hill, Blacktree Hill and Bauhinia Creek North. Mining approach is contractor-based whereby the contractor supplies and operate the equipment and the client provides technical guidance and supervision which includes mine design, mine planning, mine survey and geology inputs.
Underground Operations – New Luika transitioned to a predominantly underground operation and entered commercial production in June 2017. All underground operations at our Bauhinia Creek, Luika and Ilunga deposits are performed by New Luika employees (owner operated).
The New Luika transitioned to a predominantly underground operation and entered commercial production in June 2017. Since 2017, New Luika’s underground mining activities have delivered a consistent plant feed.
New Luika delivered its highest ever mill feed from underground operations in 2019, with open pits providing supplementary ore feed for three months of the year, in line with the planned mining schedule.
One of the major successes of 2019 was reaching commercial production from the Ilunga Underground Mine on schedule and on budget. Commercial production was declared following net pre-production capital investment of only US$5.0 million and Ilunga is now the third source of high-grade undergroun ........
