Buzwagi Gold Mine, Shinyanga - Mining Technology

Porphyritic Granite Geology and Gold and Copper Reserves at Buzwagi MineOpen-Pit Mining and Ore Processing at Tanzania’s Single Largest DepositTransport Links to Tanzania’s Buzwagi Gold Deposit in ShinyangaContractors Involved in African Barrick Gold’s Mining ProjectBuzwagi has been developed as an open-pit mine and is being mined using a truck and shovel method. Extraction of the ore includes drilling, blasting, loading and hauling. The infrastructure being used for mining encompasses three excavators, Komatsu shovels, dozers, front-end loaders, 15 haul trucks and three blast hole drill rigs. The ore extracte...