Arcadia Mine located in Goromonzi with a project area extending over 14km², is considered to be one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium resources. The lithology of the Arcadia lithium project includes greenstone rock units of the Arcturus formation, a part of the Harare Greenstone Belt (HGB).
Arcadia mine is located near Harare, Zimbabwe, 38km east of the capital and lies in the high veld near the Arcturus gold mine. The deposit is made up of Winston, Takashi, Green Mamba, Bing, Tourit, and the Oribi Li-Be claims, which were operated before the early 1970s. It is considered to be one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium resources. Prospect Resources fully owns the lithium project through its subsidiary, Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ).
The pre-feasibility study (PFS) of the project was completed in June 2017. The ground-breaking ceremony for the Arcadia lithium project was held in December 2018. The mine produced an average of 212ktpa of spodumene and 216ktpa of petalite in 2019.
The project area extends over 14km² and comprises historical lithium and beryl workings within an existing agricultural area partially surrounded by hills. The lithology of the Arcadia lithium project includes greenstone rock units of the Arcturus formation, a part of the Harare Greenstone Belt (HGB). The greenstone belt is a complex refolded synformal structure, cropping out as two major limbs, including an east-west trending Arcturus Limb and a north-south trending Passaford Limb.
The lithological units found at the belt include meta-basalts, banded iron formations, meta-andesites, serpentinites, dolerites, and lithium-bearing pegmatites.
The deposit is hosted within a series of stacked, subparallel petalite-spodumene-bearing pegmatites, intruding the HGB. The drilling results identified pegmatites with an average thickness of 15m and extending up to 3.5km along the strike.
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The proven and probable reserves at Arcadia are estimated at 42.3Mt, grading 1.19% lithium oxide (Li₂O) and 121ppm tantalum pentoxide (Ta₂O₅) with a total Ta₂O₅ content of 11.3Mlb, as of October 2021. The crystallisation of petalite is expected to have occurred prior or co-genetically with primary spodumene.
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Arcadia Mine located in Goromonzi with a project area extending over 14km², is considered to be one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium resources. The Arcadia project is located 38km east of Harare and lies in the high veld near the Arcturus gold mine.
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