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Wednesday, 16th August 2006 (3408 views)

Aflease Gold's new Modder East gold mine is set to create well over a thousand new permanent jobs.

The gold firm's chief operating officer, Robert van Tonder, told Mining Weekly that the new project would create 1,300 new employment opportunities, the vast majority of them (90 per cent) permanent rather than contracted.

He added that the workers would be remunerated to work in a hostel-free environment.

The mine is expected to be producing gold by 2009 and is the first new gold project in Johannesburg's East Rand for more than 50 years. The latest consolidated mineral resource estimate shows that the mine has a probable reserve of 1.3 million ounces of gold.

The mine will use scraper-winch face cleaning and workers will access the workings by way of a vertical ventilation shaft.

"What makes this mine different is that the development is in the footwall, whereas most of the East Rand was developed using reef drives and endless rope haulages, which are very inefficient," said Aflease chief executive Neal Froneman.

"This is a new clean-sheet mine design using modern methods and the latest technologies."

 

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