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FEATURED MINING COMPANY

GOLDCORP INC.

ARGENTINA

Alumbrera: is located about 1,100 km northwest of Buenos Aires and six hours by paved and dirt roads from the airport at San Miguel de Tucumán.

The mine is situated in a valley west of the easternmost range of the Andes at an elevation of 2,600 m above sea level.

Standard truck and shovel mining techniques are employed in the open pit mine, utilising 42 cubic m shovels and 220 ton haul trucks to move both ore and waste. Mining is carried out on 17- m benches, with 2- m sub-drill, and ore is hauled to processing facilities nearby.

Current mineral reserves have a low waste to ore ratio of an average of 2:1 for the 2007 life-of-mine plan. 

Operation of the mine is carried out at an elevated cut-off grade, which is reduced over the mine life to the economic cut-off grade.  This practice requires that some ore be stockpiled for later processing.

Mine Expansions

Future open-pit mines

Mine expansions for future open pit mines

Disciplines Description
OBJECTIVES: The customers’ objectives for mine expansions vary from project to project and we normally align our objectives accordingly. As a minimum, our objectives include optimised resource utilization from a head grade, stripping ratio and cost perspective as well as optimised mining equipment utilisation and lower-than-previously mine cost.
BENEFITS OFFERED: Tacmin Madini’s core focus is mine optimisation, and every aspect of our services is scrutinised objectively and investigated from an optimal mining cost perspective.
DELIVERABLES:  
Mineral resource evaluations As described under Mineral resource evaluations
Project planning As described under Project planning
Engineering design As described under Engineering design
Reporting As described under Reporting
Start-up and implementation As described under Start-up and implementation

 

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