GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION – FILTERED CAKE RECEIVING SHADE, PASTE PLANT &FILTRATION BUILDING FOR NORTH MARA GOLD MINE

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North Mara started commercial production in 2002. The mine is a combined open pit and underground operation from two deposits, Gokona (underground) and Nyabirama (open pit). The process plant has the capacity to process an average of 8,000 tonnes of ore per day.

The North Mara Barrick Gold mine is located in north-west Tanzania in the Tarime district of the Mara region. It is around 100 kilometers east of Lake Victoria and 20 kilometers south of the Kenyan border. The mentioned projects were aimed at improving the mine operations and capacity in both storage of row materials and increase in efficiency.

Service provided in this assignment included the following:

• Rotary Drilling of boreholes include Standard penetration test, Logging and Sampling
• Seismic Test.
• Laboratory Testing including Soil Classification, Consolidation Tests, Chemical Tests