";s:4:"text";s:8541:" Cononish Mine. The oversized materials will be further crushed in the secondary jaw crushers and fed to the screen. In autumn 1988 underground prospecting for gold began at Cononish.
Minimum vein width is 1.2m. Greater Cononish Glen Management Plan (GCGMP). The mining method selected for the orebody is retreat, sublevel open stoping. Explore the Cononish adit (pre enlargement) using the 3D viewer below: The current reserve of gold is confined to a single narrow, near vertical quartz vein extending above and below the main access on 400m level, which was originally developed for exploration purposes between 1989 and 1991. So, Scotgold is potentially wanting to develop not just the existing mine at Cononish but further mines close by. Extensive gold-in-soil anomalies, mineralisation associated with outcrops and trenching and geophysical anomalies close to the current resource clearly warrant further follow up. Beinn Chùirn is a Scottish hill five kilometres west-southwest of Tyndrum, it stands on the border of Stirlingshire and Perthshire at the northern extremity of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. “Based on the resulting prospectivity map, the study identified a series of high priority targets, with 6 targets being located within a 2.5 km radius of Cononish, including 2 targets outside the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park (LLTNP).
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That really would be an improvement on the original proposal!! Here are the two tables, merged to make comparison easier: If you set aside the earthfill, what the table shows is that Scotgold want to increase greatly the amount of rock (from 33,403 to 86,166m3) and tailings (from 296,296 to 345,487m3) extracted out of the mine. Now would be a good time to ask why the Crown Estate was granting licenses and leases for gold mine in National Parks as, in 2016, in the Scotland Act they became accountable to the Scottish Parliament (one of the main recommendations of the Smith Commission). In early posts on the new planning application (see here for example) and in my objection to the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority about that application, I expressed concern that Scotgold Resources was wanting to dump far more spoil outwith the mine than the 400,000 tonnes which had been previously agreed. At peak production the mine will operate: 2 single boom drill rigs, 2 LHD’s, 2 low profile dump trucks, in addition to a roof bolter and scaler: Reported from 3D block model with grades estimated by Ordinary Kriging with 15 m SMU Local Uniform Conditioning adjustment. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.32 841.92] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
Gold and silver mine in Cononish Glen The planning application for a gold and silver mine in Cononish Glen, near Tyndrum was approved on 19th October 2018. �n4�����X�ѝ���7OE�z :x.sG mp����Ui��U8��7��? A new transmission line will be laid to supply power to the site from a 33kV overhead line alongside the A82. Offering investors the opportunity to invest in the increasingly attractive gold mining industry through the development of the Cononish Mine in Scotland and exploration in … Seen from above the size of the heaps is flattened and the photomontage assumes that each heap will fully re-vegetate. These drill drives will be joined vertically by a series of raises, some of which will function as ore passes, while some will be used as airways and travelling ways between the levels. The Cononish gold and silver mine is expected to produce 23,370oz of gold equivalent a year upon its commissioning in February 2020. The new proposal is to store spoil in ten tailings stacks rather than single large tailings dam which would have required the Allt Eas Anie – of ice climbing fame – to be diverted and a large amount of material from the floor of the glen (the earthfill in the table below ) to be bulldozed to form the dam. The mine uses groundwater generated from the existing mine excavations.
In the interim Scotgold secured the required capital and upon satisfaction of the pre-start planning conditions, work commenced on site on the 18th December 2018. Differentiating diamonds: proving the provenance of precious gems. Subsequently in 2017 Bara Consulting updated this study to include a change in tailings storage design from valley impoundment to dry-stack, and to evaluate the economic implications of a phased approach to the development of the project. In 2002, the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park was established by the Scottish Government and the area surrounding the Cononish Mine subsequently incorporated into the precincts of the national park. The bankable feasibility study for the gold and silver project was completed by Bara Consulting in March 2015. The mineralisation is associated with a narrow vertical quartz-carbonate vein trending North East-South West. A definitive bankable feasibility study conducted by AMEC in 2011 concluded that a profitable and safe gold mining operation could be established at Cononish. The Board of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Parks (NPA) issued the decision notice that authorises planning permission for the development of the project in February 2012. It appears therefore that Scotgold wish to be in a position where they could submit a further planning application in future to extend the size of the goldmine – and this in turn could result in even more tailings stacks! Following completion of a legal agreement, the Decision Notice has now been issued for this application which was granted planning permission at a public hearing in February.
In addition to the currently defined Mineral Resources, Scotgold believes that there is additional resource development potential close to the Cononish mine, subject to appropriate and successful further work.
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