east manganese

East Manganese is our flagship opencast mine with approximately a one million ton run of mine (RoM) ore resource and produces approximately 30 000 ton a month RoM manganese ore.

East Manganese is an opencast mine with a single, 14 hectares mining pit, which is located on a small portion 50-hectare portion of the total 1 000-hectare mining right area. The remaining unused portion of the mining right area is used for cattle and game farming by a local farmer. The mine acquired the land portion on which the pit is located.

The mine utilises a dry crushing and screening plant system, which reduces water usage at the plant, to produce lumpy and fine particle manganese products. Products include both lumpy (85%) and fine material (15%). The manganese is extracted from three layers and blended to a grade of 36.5% manganese.

The R250 million mine was granted environmental authorisations in February 2019, a mining right in August 2019 and a water use license in September 2020. The mine’s first box-cut was opened in September 2020 and the first ore was mined in September 2021. The 350 ton/hour dry crushing and screening plant was commissioned in September 2021.