• Gold's Journey
• Prospecting for ore targets
• Drilling to establish Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves
• Identifying ore
• Drawing up the mining plans
• Developing processing solutions
• Construction of the mine and facilities
• Mining
• Processing
• Production

Gold's Journey from Exploration to Mining

Mining

Mining includes drilling, charging, blasting, loading and transporting the ore to the processing facilities. When mining, one to three times as much waste rock  must be excavated to make access tothe ore. Part of this waste rock can be classified as not environmentally hazardous, and has a commercial use for instance as ballast material. The rest is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Read about processing