Perseus Mining Limited became a multi-mine, multi-jurisdiction gold producer in January 2018 when it poured first gold at its Sissingué Gold Mine in Côte d’Ivoire. Sissingué is Perseus’ second gold mine, having previously developed the Edikan Gold Mine in Ghana.
The Sissingué Gold Project in the Northern Côte d’Ivoire is adjacent to the Mali boarder and approximately 100 km north of the capital Abidjan.
Gold production at Sissingué commenced in January 2018. The project was ramped up to nameplate capacity in less than 2 weeks, followed immediately by the successful completion of performance testing and handover to operations. First gold was poured ahead of schedule and the project was completed under budget.
Lycopodium was appointed EPC contractor following completion of the Front End Engineering Design (FEED).
The Sissingué Gold Project is a conventional gold carbon-in-leach plant capable of treating 1,856,000 tonnes per annum of oxide ore and 1,000,000 tonnes per annum of primary ore. Lycopodium was appointed EPC contractor following completion of the Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
Process Description
The Sissingue Gold Project is a conventional gold carbon-in-leach plant capable of treating 1,856,000 tonnes per annum of oxide ore and 1,000,000 tonnes per annum of primary ore.
The processing plant utilises the following unit processes:
- ROM bin suitable for direct truck tipping with apron feeder, vibrating grizzly and a C120 jaw crusher.
- Surge bin with overflow to a dead stockpile.
- 3.325MW single stage SAG mill.
- Single pebble crusher for recycle of pebbles.
- Gravity concentrator and intensive leach reactor including dedicated electrowinning cell.
- 15m pre-leach thickener.
- One 1,000m3 pre-leach and six 1,000m3 CIL tanks.
- 4t Zadra elution circuit and gold room.
- Tailings disposal.
- River abstraction facility and overload piping to process plant.
