INTRODUCTION

MIDROC GOLD MINE is located in southern Ethiopia

some 500 km south of Addis Ababa. This plant is
gold recovery plant established 20 years ago its
former name was Adola gold mine enterprise & it is
privatized by sheik- Mohammed Ali Alamode 11
years before .A lot of improvement has been made
in different sections of the plant since then to
increase the throughput of the plant.

Open pit
Open pit yearly rock (ore +waste) mineral push back
3.5 million Tones
Ore 1.2 million @2.44 g/t
Waste 2.2 million
Steeping ratio 1:9
Equipment
DRILLING
3 Pantera 1500
2 CM780 D
2 DM45 E
LOADING
5 Excavator
2 loader
HAULING
9 773D
2 775E
4 769C
4 769D

Legadembi Underground
Production : 217000 t/ year
Grade : 3.5 g/ton
Mining method : Cut and fill stopping
Access to the vain
through decline of 10%
size 6 meter by 6 meter
located approximately 3km from the plant
Sub-Level Interval: 20 meter floor to floor
Access to stopes: spirals with cross cut at mid point
The method adopted, with current geotechnical knowledge, is
a modified AVOCA.
Ventilation : through ventilation (ventilation decline)

Target ore body

Four mineralised quartz vein systems have been
delineated.
oLens 1
oLens 8
oLens 9
oLens 2
Lens 1. Is the main target in in the mine.

MINING EQUIPMENT
based on the mining and development schedule and can be
divided into four categories;
production,
development,
hauling and services
Production
3 x twin boom development jumbo used for footwall drives and
cross cuts
2 x production jumbo:
4 x 4m LHD: used for mucking
Development
2 x twin boom development jumbo: used to develop the ramp,
return air drives,
2 x 4m3 LHD: used for mucking ore and waste from all
development headings
3

East Sakaro Mine

Schematic

GEOLOGY AND
MINERALIZATION
East Sakaro comprises a number of lithological units
including
graphitic quartz mica schist,
amphibolite,
tremolite schist,
vein quartz,
metagranodiorite,
graphitic quartzite and pegmatite;
the graphitic quartz mica schist and amphibolite
make up the bulk of rock types in the East Sakaro area.
The same amphibolite rocks lie above and below the
quartz mica schist that hosts the mineralised quartz veins.

GEOLOGY AND
MINERALIZATION
Two mineralised
quartz vein systems have been delineated.
oES-Vein 1
oES-Vein 2.
ES-Vein 1 lies close to the quartz mica schist and
amphibolite contact
a width varying from a few cms to 6m and a strike over almost 800m.

ES-Vein 2, within intensely sheared graphitic quartz-mica

schist.
The vein ranges from a few cms to 25m in width and a strike length of
at least 450m

The resource on which the mine development is

based is the quartz vein within intensely sheared
graphitic quartz-mica schist.

RESOURCES

The geological modeling

indicates a resource
for ES-Vein 2 of
506,000t at 20.40g/t Au,
Based on a
1g/t Au cut off grThe
The mine design
analysis has resulted in
a mineable ore reserve
of
543.5kt within ESVein 2,
based on a nominal
3g/t

ACCESS AND MINING METHOD

Access to the vain
through decline of 14%
size 5 meter by five meter
located approximately 1km from the plant
Sub-Level Interval: 15meter floor to floor
Access to the sub-levels of the stopes for the LHD
is via cross-cuts, driven 4m by 4m.
The method adopted, with current geotechnical
knowledge, is
a modified sub-level open stoping referred to as
the modified SLOS method (AVOCA).

MINING EQUIPMENT
based on the mining and development schedule and can
be divided into four categories;
production,
development,
hauling and services
Production
3 x twin boom development jumbo used for footwall drives and
cross cuts
2 x production jumbo:
2 x 4m LHD: used for mucking
Development
2 x twin boom development jumbo: used to develop the ramp,
return air drives,
3 x 4m3 LHD: used for mucking ore and waste from all
development headings.
3

Crusher unit
MIDROC GOLD MINE has two crushing plants erected in parallel
namely
Medina Crusher
Old Crusher
Jaw Crusher
Open circuit superior crusher
Throughput
: 185-195
t/h
Maximum feed lump size
: 650 -700mm
Superior Crusher
Capacity
: 162 t/h
Discharge opening range
: 44 -63mm
Hydro cone Crusher
Capacity
:81 t/h
Discharge opening range
:8 -25mm

RUN OF MINE STOCKPILE

Surge
hopper

Vib.
feedr

loader

Loader

Vib.
feeder

Vib
feeder

Single
togle

2
stoc
k
Hydro
cone

Vib
feeder

S-3000
superior

DD screen

hopper
double
togle

Feeder 2

Hydro
cone

2
stoc
k

Fina
l
stoc
k

feeder 2

Vib
feeder

superior

DD
screen

Circuit type
MILL
Road mill open circuit

:
:

Ball mill closed circuit

Throughput
:
220t/h (dry)
Ore feed size
:
13mm
The annual performance of the plant is as
Mill ore 1.2 million tones
@ 4 g/t
Further size reduction takes place in the liquid media
here. There are two types of mills namely Road &Balls,
the crushed material from the crusher final stockpile
initially conveyed to Road mill by means of vibrating
feeder &conveyer belts fitted for this purpose .at the
feed spot to the road mill, the ore will be mixed with
water & lime solution.

Hydro
Hydro
cyclone
cyclone

Ball mill

Rod mill

Discharg
Discharg
e
e sump
sump

s/scr
s/scr
een
een

Trash
Trash
screen
screen

Thickene
Thickene
rr

Disch
Disch
arge
arge
pump
pump

To leach tank

u/f
u/f
pump
pump

O/f
O/f tank
tank

o/f
o/f
pump
pump

Reagent mixing & Thickener

unit
Thickening : is a process accomplished in thickener tank
(diameter 13m & height 7m). It is imperative to decrease
the quantity of water . To maintain the pulp density
between 50-52 %.
Reagent mixing: is the process of mixing lime, flocculent,
and sodium cyanide to the solution.

Process water
Return line
2x
war

Lime
Lime
holding
holding
tank
tank

To leach
tank
2x
mono

Warm
Warm
pump
pump

Lime
Lime
Lime
mixing
mixing
tank
tank

Process water
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
holding
holding
tank
tank

Warm
pump

Cyanide
Cyanide
mixing
mixing
tank
tank

To leach tank

Floccu
hopp

Flocculen
Flocculen
tt
preparati
preparati
on
on tank
tank

Mono
pump

Flocculen
Flocculen
tt holding
holding
tank
tank

Mono
pump

To
thicken
er
tank

Leaching unit
Leaching :

Thickener under flow is pumped to leach feed

distribution box and then gravitated to the first of the six series connected
leach tanks via sampler box where the feed is sampled by an auto

Thickener

sampler.

Leach
circuit

Lime
Cyanide

Leach
tank 1

Leach
tank 2

Leach
tank 3

Leach
tank 4

Leach
tank 5

Leach
tank 6

To CIP tank

Carbone regeneration
The purpose of regeneration is to reuse the eluted
carbon being after organic mater removed by means
of heat about 750 c in absence of air in a rotary kiln
feed continuously from carbon accumulated in the
eluted carbon tank by means of dewatering screw
feeder.

Pump
Pump
carbon
carbon

1
2

Furnace
Furnace

3
4

From
horizontal
screen

5
6

Vibrating
Vibrating
screen
screen

Jig
Jig

Acid
Acid
wash
wash
Acid
Acid
tank
tank

Wate
Wate
rr
tank
tank

screen
screen

boile
boile
rr

Heat
NaOH
NaOH
prepa
prepa
tank
tank

Electrolytic tank

Activate
Activate
carbon
carbon

Horizon
Horizon
tal
tal
screen
screen

To gold room

Activate
Activate
carbon
carbon

Recycle

Tailing dam
1.The first dam: which is lied on wide area. All the
slurry will settle in this dam while the cyanide
containing water is floating at the top. Every day,
sample will be taken from this dam before the
cyanide containing water will be released to the
second dam. It will not be released unless the
cyanide concentration become about 20 ppm .
2.The second dam or reclaim dam: the purpose of this
dam is to retain the cyanide carrying water and feed to
the detoxification plant. Sampling is also carried out
here.

Detoxification plant

The purpose this plant is to detoxify the cyanide

containing water after nature degradation by
adding calcium hypo-chlorite. This water will be
released to the environment only being after
sample test & confirmed that its cyanide
content is less than 0.1 ppm. THANK U

CIP tail

First dam

Second dam

Detoxificatio
n plant

To environment

THANK U