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Minas de Alquife
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Helge Ziehe
Helge Ziehe
10 December 2014
10 December 2014
Minas de Alquife: Location
I
Iron Ore Mine
O Mi
Andalucia
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Minas de Alquife: Deposit
Overburden:
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b d
alluvium
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0 – 150 m
Ore is hosted in a marble‐calc‐schist of Permian‐Triassic 0 – 250 m
Ore bodies from 10 x 10 x 10 m to 350 x 100 x 90 m
Ore: hematite and goethite
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Minas de Alquife: History
Mining
Mi
i since
i
1895
Surface Mine 1950 ‐ 1996
1978
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Minas de Alquife: Today
Mine flooded
Mi
fl d d
Slopes not stable
Plant = scrap
2014
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Minas de Alquife: Today
Core shed
C
h d with
ith 700 cores
Drillhole logs
Chemical analyses
Drillhole database
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Minas de Alquife: Today
QA/QC and
d Resource
R
M d l & Statement
Model
St t
t according
di to
t NI 43‐101
43 101
Potential: 50 % lump ore 10
10‐30mm
30mm, 50 % fines 0
0‐10mm
10mm
total inferred+ total
inferred+
indicated
Hematite compact
Hematite compact
Hematite friable
Goethite compact
Goethite friable
Heterogeneous
TOTAL
Tonnes 000´ss
Tonnes 000
17,607
26,323
38,923
18,721
8,872
110,446
Fe%
%
52.35
51.51
53.73
53.46
53.62
53.00
Mn ≈1.6 %, Alkali up to 0.5 %, LoI 5‐10%, high porosity
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Minas de Alquife: Potential
M t ll i l Tests
Metallurgical
T t with
ith SGA
1 Further upgrading of ore is not possible: impurities < 10 µm 1.
Further upgrading of ore is not possible: impurities < 10 µm
2. Alquife lump ore can be used as direct burden in a blast furnace. The tests confirmed that the ore does not disintegrate at high
The tests confirmed that the ore does not disintegrate at high temperature
3 Optical sorting of lump ore achieves efficiency of 95 %
3.
O ti l ti
fl
hi
ffi i
f 95 %
4. Alquife sinter fines have interesting qualities for the sinter process as the ore acts as binding material
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bi di
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Minas de Alquife: Process
Si l crushing
Simple
hi and
d screening
i plant
l t with
ith optical
ti l sorting
ti unit
it
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•
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Jaw crusher
Jaw
crusher
Secondary crusher
Screens
Optical sorters
p
Diverter chutes
Minas de Alquife: Mining
S f
Surface
Mi
Mine
• Target production 4 Mtpa (wet)
• SR: 1:3 to 1:10 (t/t)
• Overburden: backhoe excavator + trucks
• Marble and limestone: drilling, blasting, shovel and truck
 In‐pit
I i backfilling
b kfilli in
i later
l
years
• Ore: selective mining with smaller units to reduce dilution, IPC
below depth of 150 m
• Large dewatering program: 15 hm3 per year
• Detailed annual planning of LoM required
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Minas de Alquife: Bulk Material Handling and Logistics
• Stockpiles
St k il att mine
i site
it 2 x Panamax
P
shiploads
hi l d
• Truck haulage to Carboneras port ≈ 150 km
• Stockpiles at port 2 x Panamax shiploads
• Target sales to European blast furnaces:
 3 Mtpa sinter fines
 1 Mtpa
M
l
lump
ore
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Minas de Alquife: PEA ‐ PFS
PEA NI 43 101 report: in March 2015
PEA NI 43‐101 report: in March 2015
Environmental Permit: January 2015
y
Other permits …
DFS: in 2015
Start mining in 2016
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Important Notice
This document has been produced by Minas de Alquife S.L.U. Granada/Alquife, Spain. It will be incomplete without our
detailed underlying
y g analysis
y and verbal p
presentation.
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The statements made are based on assumptions which have been regarded to be correct based on the information made
available to Minas de Alquife S.L.U. Nevertheless, Minas de Alquife S.L.U. undertakes no representation or warranties as to
th accuracy off the
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Alquife S.L.U.`s work on the project except to the extent caused by willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Please note that Minas de Alquife S.L.U. does not accept any liability for any forward looking statement, prognosis or
simulation. Actual results may differ significantly from the results and prognosis contained in this document. All terms used
such as reserves, resources, inferred, measured, indicated or other do not refer to JORC or NI 43-101 terms.
Minas de Alquife S.L.U.
C/ Luis
L i Amador
A d 26
Edfo. Cámara de Comercio
Oficina CP1
18014 Granada
SPAIN
Phone: (+34) 958 21 63 49
Fax: (+34) 958 22 27 64
Mobile: (+49) 170 45 39 71 0
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