At 15:00 local time on August 29,the Tanzania ML553 gold mine flotation plant, jointly developed by the Henan Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and the Henan Provincial Natural Resources Investment Group, was officially completed and put into production.

The ML553 gold mine development project is an important part of the "Lake Victoria Industrial Park" that is a key cultivation project filed by the Henan Provincial Department of Commerce. The project is located in the Mara region of Tanzania, with Zhongyuan Energy and Mining East Africa Mining Co., Ltd. as the carrier. The flotation plant is designed with a production capacity of 500 tons of ore per day, and the mine service life is 7 years.

"This is the fruitful result of our Geological and Mineral Institute's more than ten years of hard work in Tanzania," said Guo Mingfu, director of the Geological and Mineral Institute of Henan Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. Since 2006,the institutehas taken the lead in the Henan geological industry to layout international mining exploration and development cooperation,aftermore than 10 years of hard work,in Tanzania,identified1 medium-sized gold depositand 3 small gold deposits.,It hasbuilt 2 gold mines and plansto build 1 graphite mine, holding various mining rights.And37vigorously promotethe construction of the Lake Victoria Resource Comprehensive Utilization Industrial Park.This industrial parkis a key supported economic and trade cooperation zone in Henan Province.

It isone of the 113 overseas economic and trade cooperation zones included in the national statistics in 2018, and it is also the only "resource comprehensive utilization" park in Henan Province. In 2019, it was included in the province's key cultivated overseas economic and trade cooperation zones.,The production of the ML553 gold mine flotation plant marks the culmination of the hard work of the Henan Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and the Henan Provincial Natural Resources Group in Tanzania, achieving a leap from mineral resource reserves to the transformation of mining development project results.Liu Jiacan, deputy director of the Geological and Mineral Institute of Henan Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and general manager of Zhongyuan Energy and Mining East Africa Mining Co., Ltd., introduced that in order to promote the construction of the ML553 gold mine development project, since 2016, the project team has successively completed the mining rights application, land acquisition in the mining area, construction of high-voltage power lines, water supply and other auxiliary facilities for "three connections and one leveling", and completed all production and living facilities such as living areas, laboratories, explosive warehouses, electrolysis workshops, and flotation plants. Overcoming numerous difficulties such as the global pandemic, technical barriers, and policy obstacles, on August 29, the gold mine flotation plant officially began trial operation.

Source: Henan Daily,

Authors: Gao Changling,

Zhou Qiang, Wu Hao, Wang Caili,Guo Weihang周强、吴昊 、王彩丽、郭纬航