Tarkwa Gold Mine

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The Tarkwa Gold Mine is located in south-western Ghana, about 300 kilometers west of Accra, the capital of Ghana. It is situated some four kilometers west of the town of Tarkwa, which has good access roads, an established infrastructure and is served by a main road connecting to the port of Takoradi some 60 kilometers away at the Atlantic coast. The infrastructure of the mine consists of six open pits, two heap leach facilities, and a CIL plant. The ore body consists of a series of sedimentary banket quartz reef units (conglomerates) of the Tarkwain System, that are similar to those mined in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa. The operation is currently mining multiple-reef horizons from open pits and there is potential for underground mining in the future. Tarkwa has a Mineral Resource of 15.3 million gold ounces and a Mineral Reserve of 9.9 million ounces.

During financial 2010 Tarkwa produced 720,700 ounces of gold at a cash cost of US$536 per ounce and an NCE of US$743 per ounce. For the 12 months to end-June 2011 the outlook for Tarkwa is to produce between 720,000 and 760,000 ounces of gold at a cash cost of between US$580 and US$605 and an NCE of between US$835 and US$860 per ounce.


Reference for information:
www.goldfields.co.za/ops_int_tarkwa.php