Published on 23rd March 2012
Bellzone Mining has announced that iron ore production and product stockpiling for the Forécariah joint venture project in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, has begun. The maiden blast consisted of 213 holes and the firm anticipates that this will provide more than 30,000 tonnes of run of mine ore for processing through the installed crushing and screening plants. Production operations will be progressively ramped up to achieve the design capacity of four million tonnes per annum over a six month period, with first shipment scheduled for early June 2012.