THE GBANE GOLD PROJECT SITE
The Earl Group is an international conglomerate of inimitable 40 years of experience in the mining industry, specializing in investments in exploration, mine development, production, technical services and precious metal trade.
THE GBANE GOLD PROJECT SITE
The Gbane gold mine is in full production. Until present, the mine take area was only 50 acres which produced an average daily output of 800 tons of ore. Prospects of this small area served as the impetus to the acquisition of a large scale mining lease of 16.02 Sq.Km area in the Gbane area of the Upper east Region of Ghana. The current mine take area is 260 acres.
Three other prospecting rights closer the Gbane mine have been acquired. These also sit on the historically rich Bole-Nangodi belts. At present, the mineral resources exploration for these areas have been preliminarily completed, with manifestations of huge amount of resources. A total of 100,000 geochemical soil samples, 150,000 meters of core drilling and 360,000 meters of reverse circulation drilling have been explored portending huge economic deposits.
Earl International Group Gold Ghana Limited under its Gbane Gold Project operates an underground mine. Four vertical shafts are currently in operation while two new vertical shafts are under construction.
Our processing plant has the capacity to mill over 2,000 tons of ore per day. This is expected to increase significantly to 5,000 tons of ore per day when we launch and operationalize a new processing plant currently under construction.
Approximately, one thousand (1000) Ghanaians have been permanently employed by Earl International Group Gold Ghana Limited with close to 80% of employees coming from within our host district.
HOW WE MINE
VERTICAL SHAFT
Earl International Group Gold Ghana Limited operates an underground mine, therefore, we use underground mine methods to extract gold ore from our deep tenements or underground.
We have constructed deep vertical tunnels called shafts to access the ore body. We also build tunnels to provide proper ventilation and emergency exits.
We mine the tunnels and ore bodies by drilling and blasting. The ore is then transported to surface in skip buckets through the vertical shafts and discharged. Our dump trucks then transport and stockpile the ore at the processing plant for processing.
Empty spaces created as a result of the mining process underground are back filled with waste rock and some transported to the surface for other earth works. The tunnels are supported to keep them safe.
