Intention- and ASX-listed Sovereign Metals has efficiently accomplished the mining trials stage of its pilot mining and land rehabilitation programme (pilot part) on the Kasiya rutile/graphite challenge, in Malawi.
Hydraulic mining trials at Kasiya had been efficiently concluded as a part of the Kasiya optimisation examine.
Previous to the hydraulic mining trials, a dry mining trial efficiently excavated a check pit to a depth of 20 m.
The mining trials verify that the tender, friable Kasiya ore will be effectively mined, Sovereign stories.
“I’m happy with the outcomes of the mining trials on the check pit and now stay up for the rehabilitation demonstration stage, with backfilling of the pit already underway. Our findings from this pilot part are continually bettering our understanding of Kasiya and the way to optimise operations at this real Tier 1 challenge,” says CEO and MD Frank Eagar.
Following the conclusion of mining trials, land rehabilitation demonstrations are actually underneath approach, beginning with the backfilling of the check pit.
The check pit, which was excavated utilizing typical dry mining methods and a easy cell excavator fleet, coated an space of 120 m by 110 m and was mined to a depth of 20 m by means of the weathered ore at Kasiya.
Mined materials is being positioned again into the pit and all areas will likely be graded.
The backfilling stage is predicted to conclude in December.
As a part of the pilot part, the corporate has constructed small rehabilitation demonstration pits that will likely be used to show a number of rehabilitation processes.
Sovereign’s goal is to revive land after mining to situations that obtain the identical or higher agricultural yields than previous to mining operations.
The pilot part is predicted to show to native communities the profitable rehabilitation of land for agricultural use post-mining.
Outcomes would additionally permit Sovereign to find out optimum approaches, offering essential data for Kasiya’s environmental- and social-impact evaluation.
Sovereign says it stays targeted on changing into a number one world provider to the titanium and graphite industries.
The corporate factors out that Kasiya is the world’s largest pure rutile deposit, and the world’s second-largest flake graphite deposit, which is a battery mineral key to the power transition.
