Maligreen
- Full name:
- Maligreen Gold Mine
- Mwana interest:
- Mwana Africa has a 50% interest in the dormant Maligreen Gold Mine. The interest was acquired through the purchase of Cluff Mining in December 2005. Pan African (Private) Limited, a Zimbabwe registered company, holds the other 50% and manages the property.
- Geology and history:
- The Maligreen deposit is located in the Nkayi-Silobela Greenstone Belt approximately 70km west of Kwekwe. Reunion Mining (Zimbabwe) Limited discovered the deposit in 1995 defining a gold resource through a percussion and diamond drilling programme. Mineralization has been identified in lenses in an envelope over 50m wide with a strike length of 900m and to a depth of 200m with the deposit open in depth and to the north.
- The ore body has been mined to the base of the weathering by two small open pits. The mine produced 22,500oz of gold by heap-leaching 213,000t of weathered ore from August 2000 to September 2002. Irrigation of the dumps continued to August 2004 with some minor gold recovery.
- The site is currently maintained on a care and maintenance basis.