Mission Statement
If we cannot mine safely, we will not mine. We responsibly manage our impact
on the environment and host communities. We act with honesty, fairness and
transparency. We treat all stakeholders with trust, dignity and respect.
About Us
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. 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.
If we cannot mine safely, we will not mine !
Our Pits are located in Goromonzi Zimbabwe and we are a leading black, white and grey Lithium producer in Africa.
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.
Mission Statement
If we cannot mine safely, we will not mine. We responsibly manage our impact on the environment and host communities. We act with honesty, fairness and transparency. We treat all stakeholders with trust, dignity and respect.
Our Vision
To be a recognized Lithium mining company focused on growing sustainable production, delivering on our commitments for excellence and valuing and developing our employees.
The Arcadia deposit will be mined as a conventional truck and shovel open pit operation via contract mining. Mining operations are planned to be carried out in two pits comprising a main pit and a satellite pit located northeast of the main pit.
As part of the first phase of operations, the main pit will be mined in four phases, which include two smaller starter pits within the main pit.
Mining operations are expected to be carried out using track-mounted diesel hydraulic backhoe excavators to load ore and waste into dump trucks. Ore gradings of 1% Li₂O or more will be transported to the run-of-mine (ROM) pad and stockpiled for reclamation by a front-end loader. The lower-grade ore will be stockpiled and used as a blender with high-grade ore.
The run-of-mine (ROM) ore will undergo two-stage crushing followed by a high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR) to achieve the desired 5mm crushed product.
