Mining Magazine June 2017 | Page 42

PT MERDEKA COPPER GOLD TBK
biggest gold and copper deposits in the world . What we aim to do is create an internationally respected , high standard and high integrity mining company . Tujuh Bukit has a typical epithermal gold oxide cap that has been developed as an open pit mine , overlying a two billion tonne sulphide porphyry copper deposit that could be developed in stages as a series of mass underground mines .

The number of staff at PT Merdeka Copper Gold Tbk

1,500

This could set us up as a 30 plus year copper-gold producer .”
The oxide gold silver development commenced operations in December and produced its first gold in March 2017 , just 18 months after construction work started . This mine offers low costs and high margins . Using conventional open pit mining , the ore is crushed and agglomerated before being stacked on a heap leach pad where