ABSTRACT. The extraction of the Main Shaft pillar at Kloof Gold Mine is expected to be one of the most challenging rock engineering projects in recent years. The scale, scope …

Kloof is a large, well-established intermediate to ultra deep level gold mine that is accessed from surface through a number of shafts to 45 Level (the lowest working level) …

Uncategorized Kloof 8 Shaft Masimthembe,sibanye Gold Mine. Westonaria, Gauteng Tags

Beatrix is a large, well-established shallow to intermediate-level gold mine that is accessed from surface through four shaft complexes, to 26 Level at 3 Shaft some 1,341 m below surface, and 24 Level at 4 Shaft some 2,200 m below surface. Beatrix holds a mining authorisation totalling 16,821 hectares and operates two gold plants.

In 1964, Kloof's main twin-shaft complex was initiated and the mine was officially opened in 1968. The sinking of the Leeudoorn shaft that had commenced in …

Gold Fields has nine operating mines in Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Chile and Peru and one project in Canada. Our Operations We have total attributable annual gold-equivalent production of 2.40Moz, attributable gold Mineral Reserves of 46.1Moz and Mineral Resources of 42.3Moz (excluding Mineral Reserves).

Sinking of main shaft completed. New gold plant commissioned 2004 Twin Shaft system commissioned 2006 ... Gold Fields initiates a R4.3bn mine upgrade investment programme. All conventional mining stopped 2009 Low profile mechanised destress mining begins 2010 New-order mining right granted, with addition of the 'Uncle Harry's' …

The Kloof operation consists of four producing vertical shafts, namely Shaft, No. 4 Shaft, No. 7 Shaft and No. 8 Shaft. The reef horizon is accessed the deepest (46 Level …

Mineral title. Rand Uranium (Pty) Ltd (a subsidiary of Sibanye Gold Limited) holds a converted mining right over the operations known as Cooke No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 in terms of the MPRDA, under DMRE Ref No GP30/5/1/2/2/07 MR (Cooke No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 MR), valid from 18 December 2007 to 17 December 2037 and covering a total area …

The Kloof Division is one of three South African operations within the Gold Fields group. The shafts on which the project work was carried out, no. 1 and no. 2 sub, are known as …

The mine's total proven and probable reserves amount to 94.6Mt grading an average 7.4g/t, and containing 21.6Moz of gold. MINING. Driefontein is a conventional South African underground mine in which opportunities for increasing workplace mechanisation are limited. It comprises eight operating shaft systems which access the VCR and CLR ...

Kloof Underground Mine is located 11 km SW from Westonaria, South Africa. Data Access Keep me signed in. ... SA gold operations negotiated an inflation-linked three-year wage settlement. A decision to close down some loss-making and end-of-life operations, namely the Beatrix 4 shaft and the Kloof 1 processing plant, was made during the fourth ...

The Kloof gold mine comprises seven vertical shaft complexes, of which five are being used for ore production and hoisting. One (shaft-9) of the remaining two shafts has been …

Mining operations have been carried out in the Free State goldfields since the 1940s and gold has been produced at Beatrix since 1983. At 31 December 2022, Beatrix had total surface and underground …

Extraction of the shaft pillar on the VCR horizon Kloof Main Shaft Complex. Challenges in Deep and High Stress Mining, Potvin, Y., Hadjigeorgiou, J. and Stacey, D. (eds), Australian Centre for Geomechanics, pp. 105-111. ... Van der Heever, P and Ryder, J.A. (2007). Characterisation of the Westonaria Formation at Main Shaft, Kloof Gold Mine ...

Sibanye-Stillwater: Gold operations at Kloof 1 shaft recommences. JOHANNESBURG – Sibanye-Stillwater has provided an update regarding the commencement of operations following the safety-related interventions and stoppages that were announced on 15 December 2021. These interventions reinforce the Group's top …

Kloof Gold Mine is in the planning phase of extracting the Main Shaft Pillar on the Ventersdorp Contact Reef. Situated at an average depth of 2500 m below surface, this shaft pillar hosts 1 surface and 3 sub-shafts. The surface shaft terminates approximately 40 m from the reef horizon and the sub-shafts all transverse the reef.

The shaft will then be equipped for rock hoisting, and a Blair Multi Rope rock winder identical to the one in Main Shaft will be installed and commissioned. Installation of the brattice wall is planned for commissioning by January 2008, and is critical for the commissioning of the 94 Level refrigeration plants. ... KLOOF GOLD MINE The planned ...

Extraction of the shaft pillar on the VCR horizon Kloof Main Shaft Complex. Challenges in Deep and High Stress Mining, Potvin, Y., Hadjigeorgiou, J. and Stacey, D. (eds), Australian Centre for ...

Kloof Gold Mine Restructuring The Event. Sibanye Stillwater announced earlier this week that it will restructure its Kloof Shaft 4, which might lead to nearly 3,000 job losses. The firm's stated ...

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Pillar extraction and scattered mining at D8 Shaft; and; Reclamation and vamping at D6 Tertiary and D10 Sub- Vertical Shaft. ... with respect to remnant pillar mining, was aligned to the updated Gold Fields Pillar Mining Code of Practice, which takes cognisance of a stringent safe remnant extraction practice. ... Kloof : Advanced (m) 25,616 : ...

South Deep Gold Mine is an intermediate to deep level gold mine comprising two shaft systems that mine various auriferous conglomerates from open ground and pillars that occur at depths between 1,575 m and 3,500 m below surface. The shaft systems comprise the older South Shaft complex with its main shaft and two sub vertical shafts, and the ...

In the area east of the Bank Break, the majority of mining takes place on the VCR, which constitutes 88% of the Mineral Reserve, the MR 10%, and the Kloof Reefs the remaining 2%. West of the Bank Break the CL is generally a high grade reef and represents approximately 81% of the current Mineral Reserve, the VCR 17% with the remaining 2% ...

Kloof 4 shaft produces an average of about 9 650 oz a month, or 115 743 oz/y, which accounts for about 14% of yearly production from the company's gold operations (excluding gold miner DRDGold).

Work commenced on Kloof's Main shaft system in 1964 and the Kloof Gold Mine official opened in 1968. 1972: East Driefontein starts production in 1972, with an expected life of 52 years, and is immediately among the lowest cost producers in South Africa. 1979: West Driefontein succeeds Crown Mines as the largest gold producer ever. …

The extraction of the Main Shaft pillar at Kloof Gold Mine is expected to be one of the most challenging rock engineering projects in recent years. The scale, scope and complexity of the project are particularly unique. The extraction will directly affect four vertical shafts and indirectly affect a further three shafts. Most of these shafts intersect …

MINING. Kloof mines the Ventersdorp Contact Reef (VCR) at depths of between 2,500 and 3,700m with minor production from the Kloof (KR), Libanon (LR) and …

Name: Kloof mine. Location: The Kloof mine is located in the Far West Rand goldfields of the Witwatersrand basin, near Westonaria, in Gauteng, South Africa. Mine Owner/s: Sibanye-Stillwater. Brief ...

The production from No. 4 Shaft and No. 5 Shaft is conveyed underground to No. 2 Shaft on 22 and 24 levels for hoisting. The Driefontein mining complex has three fissure water pumping shafts: No. 8 Shaft, No. 10 Shaft, and North Shaft (next to No. 8 Shaft), of which only No. 8 Shaft is still operational.