{"id":110169,"date":"2019-11-06T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=110169"},"modified":"2020-07-27T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T22:58:11","slug":"lily-mine-facts-re-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/lily-mine-facts-re-opening-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About Lily Mine: When is It Re-Opening?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gold mining has been one of the major means of generating revenue in South Africa. There are several gold mines found in the country and Lily Mine happens to be one of them. Located in Barberton, Ehlanzeni District, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, Lily Mine first began as an oxide open pit operation in 2000. However, it later developed as a shallow underground operation. It has lode gold deposits along with the faulted interface between the Figtree and Onverwacht groups of the Archa greenstone belt. The gold mineralization is structurally controlled and associated with fine-grained pyrrhotite, minor arsenopyrite, and quartz-carbonate veins.<\/p>\n
Presently, Lily Mine has Mineral Resources of over 1.9 million ounces and Ore reserves of 0.35 million ounces, in an ore body which is 2m to 15m wide and about 700m below the surface. There are usually a number of drilling, blasting, and hauling methods used for its underground development. Some of these methods include long-hole drilling, hanging wall drives and ramps, and the use of mechanized equipment along specifically sized reef drives, etc.<\/p>\n
For one to gain access to the underground mine, you would have to go through a main portal from the old Lily Main open pit.<\/p>\n