Mining Magazine July 2017 | Page 61

AFRICA million tonnes of ore at an average grade of 0.8 grams per tonne of gold , and 25 grams per tonne of silver , the near-surface ore deposits contain approximately 2.45 million ounces of gold and 79 million ounces of silver . The underlying porphyry deposit has an Inferred Mineral Resource of some 1.9 billion tonnes at estimated grades of 0.45 percent copper and 0.44 grams per tonne gold making it one of the largest projects of its kind in the world .
All told , the porphyry is estimated to contain 28 million ounces of gold and 19 billion pounds of copper .
“ I come from 30 years mining experience working on some of the largest mines in Australia and PNG ,” he explains . “ I ’ ve been asked to build a technical team capable of taking Tujuh Bukit to those standards . I ’ m proud to say we could take anyone from Australia and they would be impressed with our
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