Artika Resources’ prospecting and exploration team focuses on finding mineral resources in South Africa and Africa which can be extracted to produce valuable minerals. Artika Resources prioritizes minerals reserves which can be extracted profitably and sustainably and therefore provides a long term mining operation.
Our team consists of professionals with more than 40 years’ combined experience in geology, exploration and geophysical disciplines.
As mine head grades decline and orebodies become more complex, traditional mineral processing techniques and flowsheets to achieve saleable concentrate become more difficult to design and construct. Mines with lower quality concentrates or concentrates with penalty elements are particular under threat. The economics of these operations are far more susceptible to metal price, concentrate treatment terms and the availability of other, cleaner concentrates. Additional value may be realised for these orebodies through improved recovery by producing a low grade middling concentrate for further processing, in conjunction with a saleable concentrate.
It is important for businesses that intend to engage in the reprocessing of tailings dumps to determine the economic viability of their mineral assets. In order to estimate Mineral Resources for a tailings dump a comprehensive technical study must be undertaken to assess the quantity and quality of the tailings material and demonstrate reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction as required
