African Copper (ACU-T, ACU-L) will start construction of a mine at the Dukwe copper project in Botswana, with the hope of starting production in 2008.
The company’s board approved the production decision and the company has applied to the Botswanan government for a mining licence, which it expects to have in hand soon. There is already a Water Extraction Permit and Botswana’s Department of Environmental Affairs has issued final comments on the projects impact assessment and management plan.
Resource estimates by two independent consultants are being calculated; previous estimates had calculated separate oxide and sulphide resources at Dukwe, but mine plans had generally considered only sulphide material. Metallurgical tests on the oxide mineralization (which is partly supergene-enriched) are underway.
The mill at Dukwe will be designed to take 3,000 tonnes of ore per day, producing about 20,000 tonnes copper annually.
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