10th May 2022. Today marks the 27th year anniversary of the commemoration of the Vaal Reef Disaster that resulted in the loss of lives of 104 workers during the mine accident. …

After it was established that the Main Reef was consistently present underground, albeit at great depths, and had a predictably high yield of gold, the major gold mining companies, headed by Eckstein's Corner House and Rhodes's Gold Fields of South Africa, started buying up large tracts of land to the south of the Main Reef outcrop.

Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #21422" (#21422) in North West, South Africa. ... TO MINE VAAL REEF MATER, ALL IN THAT AREA. DUE TO LACK OF DATA FIELD SPACE, THE FEED GRADES OF THE COMMODITIES WERE ROUNDED. THERE ACTUAL FEED GRADES ARE: GOLD-0. 00098%, SILVER-0. 000098%, U-0. 01860.

Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #21416" (#21416) in North West, South Africa. ... MAX THICKNESS REFERS TO STOPPING WIDTH OF VAAL REEF. PRINCIPAL GOLD BEARING CARBON SEAM AT BASE OF REEF: 0. 10 METER IN THICKNESS. THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD M046869 WHICH HAS …

Geology and reserves. The reefs mined at Great Noligwa are the Vaal Reef and the Crystalkop Reef, with the Vaal Reef accounting for over 90% of the gold …

The Vaal Reefs mine disaster occurred on 10 May 1995 when an underground locomotive in the Vaal Reefs gold mine in South Africa fell into the mine shaft, hitting an elevator carrying mine workers, and causing it to plunge to the bottom of the shaft, killing 104 miners. It is the worst elevator accident in history.

The sale of Kopanang to Heaven-Sent SA Sunshine Investment Company Limited was announced in October 2017 and concluded in February 2018, the company aims to return business back to profitability. The mine is considered to have been placed into care and maintenance in early 2020. The operating company, Village Main Reef, …

120 O. Catuneanu, M.N. Biddulph / Sedimentary Geology 141±142 (2001) 113±130 REPRESENTATIVE REEF PROFILE OF THE VAAL REEF ZONE AT GREAT NOLIGWA MINE MB4 quartzite Grey, coarse-grained protoquartzite top of Vaal Reef zone Matrix to clast supported oligomictic conglomerate, G V Bosch well pyritised in places …

NUM remembers 104 mineworkers who perished at No2 Shaft at Vaal Reefs Gold Mining Company Limited. NUM Admin posted on 5/10/2017 1:55:00 PM. NUM …

Gold is found within a less-than-2m-thick laterally large quartz pebble conglomerate horizons or reefs. The Vaal Reef is a laterally extensive, rich conglomerate that dominates the mine. The Vaal reef includes successive quartzite packages and oligomictic conglomerates concentrated on a series of non-conformities.

Facies analysis and sequence stratigraphic methods resolve the correlation and relative chronology of Vaal Reef facies associations at the Great Noligwa and Kopanang mines in the Klerksdorp Goldfield, Witwatersrand Basin. Four depositional sequences, separated by major erosional surfaces, build the Vaal Reef …

The Moab Khotsong gold mine exploits the Vaal Reef, a gold-bearing quartz-pebble conglomerate in the Central Rand Group of the Witwatersrand Supergroup ( Figure 1a; Catuneanu & Biddulph, 2001 ...

As at 31 December 2016: MINERAL RESOURCE. Kopanang, which is bound to the south by the Jersey Fault, has a single shaft system to a depth of 2,334m. It exploits the Vaal Reef almost exclusively, producing gold as its primary output and uranium oxide as a by-product. Moab Khotsong, AngloGold Ashanti's newest South African mine, is located in ...

Current status. In March 2018, HSC acquired the Kopanang mine from AngloGold Ashanti. The mine operates at depths of 1,350 to 2,240 metres below surface and is accessed by one of the largest diameter shafts in South Africa. Around 3,000 people currently work at the mine, producing around 85,000 oz of gold annually.

The Vaal Reef is the primary economic horizon at Moab Khotsong. A secondary economic horizon, the C-Reef, contributes less than 5% of total mining volumes. Both reefs are narrow tabular deposits forming part of the Witwatersrand Supergroup and are stratigraphically located near the middle of the Central Rand Group.

The mine exploits the Vaal Reef as its primary orebody. The economic reef horizons are mined between 1 791m and 3 052m below surface. Ore mined is processed at the Great Noligwa gold plant. The plant uses the reverse gold leach method, with gold and uranium recoveries achieved by gold cyanide and acid uranium leaching.

Report summary. The mine exploits Vaal reef which exhibits relatively consistent values. Yield grades have fallen steadily from 11.8g/t in 1984 to current levels. The decline in in-situ grade has been partly offset by waste sorting. In 1972 Zandpan merged its operations with Hartebeestfontein. Since 1980 the mine has tributed the north …

Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company Ltd. is si tuated wi thin the Klerksdorp Gold-Field (Figure 1.2) and is the world ' s largest, single regional gold mine, employing nearly 50,000 people and producing 70 to 80 metric tons of Gold annually.

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In turn, the slimes and floats fraction of the Vaal Reef contain a higher gold distribution than the C-Reef (Figure 1 8), indicating the presence of finer gold grains (-25 µm), or the occurrence ...

The major gold bearing reef that is actively mined in the Klerksdorp region is the Vaal Reef (Pienaar et al., 2015), and it represents a site of high gold, uranium, and organic carbon ...

Today marks the 27th year anniversary of the commemoration of the Vaal Reef Disaster that resulted in the loss of lives of 104 workers during the mine accident. …

In 1986, more than 175 gold miners died in a fire in the Kinross mine, 100 miles east of Johannesburg. Mining officials say some 69,000 mine workers, most them black, have been killed in ...

Vaal Reefs Vaal Reefs is a gold bearing reef which is mined near the town of Orkney in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa. ... Orkney is a gold mining town situated in the Klerksdorp district of the North West ... Duff Scott Hospital Hospital, 9 km northeast; Popular Destinations in North West ...

The three mines share a milling and treatment circuit. Great Noligwa is a mature operation which adjoins Kopanang (in the Free State) and Moab Khotsong. The Vaal Reef, the operation's primary reef, and the Crystalkop Reef, a secondary reef, are mined from a twin-shaft system over eight main levels at an average depth of 2,400m. Given the ...

Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #19786" (#19786) in North West, South Africa. ... ORE RECOVERIES ARE FROM THREE HORIZONS (REEFS) : VAAL REEF, VENTERSDORP CONTACT REEF, AND ELSBURG REEF. MODERATE MINING COSTS ($84. 20/PER TROY OUNCE OF GOLD RECOVERED). Workings. Workings at the site. …

Several conglomerate bands have been mined in the area. Starting with the oldest, there is the Dominion Reefs occurring in the strata underlying the Hospital Hill Series, then the Government Reef Series, the Commonage Reef (cover portion of the Main- Series), the Vaal Reefs in the upper part of the Main- Series, the Gold Estates …

System (shales, dolomites, and volcanics); the Vaal Reef is not thick but is enriched in gold. The mining here reached the record depth of 3.5 km. In total, more

Application of 3-D seismics to mine planning at Vaal Reefs gold mine, number 10 shaft, Republic of South Africa ... The seismic survey at No. 10 shaft accurately and spectacularly delineated the 3-D structure of the Ventersdorp contact reef at depths ranging from 1000 to 3500 m, imaging faults with throws in the 20- to 1200-m range. ...