TD3 - Chingola (KCM Vedanta) - Zambian Copperbelt (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
Tailings Dam 3
PRODUCTION - RECLAMATION PROJECT
24Ktpa Cu between 2010-2025
RESOURCE BASE - TD3 & TD4 COMBINED
Proved Reserve: 70.90Mt at 0.68% Cu, 0.47% AsCu & 0.02% Co
October 8, 2009
Mr Kumar said KCM had employed 100 more workers to operate the reclamation project at TD3. "When the Fitwaola Mine is re-opened, we shall create more jobs because we are looking at engaging 300 employees to work there, so jobs will be created at the mine,"Mr Kumar said.
He said they expected to produce 2000 tonnes of cop a month from the reclamation project at TD3. Meanwhile, Mr Kumar said KCM has pumped $10 million into the reclamation project at TD3.
He said reclamation was the cheapest way of extracting copper but that the project would help in sustaining the running of the mines. The project at TD3 was expected to run for 15 years and that they had re-opened TD3 in advance because the current one would run out in the next two years.
4.2.6 Tailings Dams
As of August 2005, the Tailings Dams (TD) at Nchanga were being processed at the nearby Tailings Leach Plant (TLP). They comprised relatively coarse tailings residue arising from the treatment of ROM copper ore at the Nchanga concentrator dating from 1964. The remaining dumps were TD2, TD3 and TD4, which were established in 1964, 1974 and 1972 respectively.
The database for the Tailings Dams as of August 2005 included the results of drilling and test pit campaigns undertaken between 1976 and 1990 and later in 2000. The results of this work form the basis of the August 2005 estimate.
http://www.zci.lu/KCM%20Valuation%20Report.pdf
As of August 2005, the Tailings Dams (TD) at Nchanga were being processed at the nearby Tailings Leach Plant (TLP). They comprised relatively coarse tailings residue arising from the treatment of ROM copper ore at the Nchanga concentrator dating from 1964. The remaining dumps were TD2, TD3 and TD4, which were established in 1964, 1974 and 1972 respectively.
The database for the Tailings Dams as of August 2005 included the results of drilling and test pit campaigns undertaken between 1976 and 1990 and later in 2000. The results of this work form the basis of the August 2005 estimate.
http://www.zci.lu/KCM%20Valuation%20Report.pdf