Kalgold is a long-life, open-pit gold mine. There are four active pits in all with mining takes place in the A-zone pit, the Watertank pit, Henry’s pit as well as in the Windmill pit. Ore mined is processed at the carbon-in-leach Kalgold plant.
Key facts
Location:
South Africa
on Kraaipan Greenstone Belt, 55km southwest of Mahikeng in North West province
Nature of mining
Open pit
ore is extracted from a series of satellite orebodies using a 10m-bench mining strategy
Mining parameters
2 300m
overall strike with a reef width of 15m-120m
Life-of-mine
12 years
Contact
Tel: 018 332 1192
R6JM+3Q Setlagole,
North West, South Africa
Current focus
- Maintain steady production at all four pits and sustain current production levels of 130 000 tonnes a month
- Continue efforts to acquire prospecting rights to conduct exploration drilling in area south of D-Zone to ensure organic growth of operation
For more information, refer to:
Performance FY25
Production
39 738oz
(1 236kg)
Grade
0.84g/t
(0.025oz/t)
All-in sustaining cost
R1 120 160/kg
(US$1 919/oz)
Capital expenditure
R150m
(US$8m)
Reserves and resources
Mineral Reserves
0.6Moz
mineral Resources (inclusive)
2.2Moz
Guidance FY26
production
39 100oz –
40 700oz
capital expenditure
~R79m
ESG statistics
Lost-time injury frequency rate
3.54
per million hours worked
Workforce
743
258 permanent employees and 485 contractors
WATER INTENSITY
0.18Mℓ
per tonne treated
Energy intensity
0.04MWh
per tonne treated
GHG intensity
0.05t CO2e
per tonne treated
TOTAL COMMUNITY SPEND
R18m
Social and Labour Plan
Kalgold dust mitigation
We are installing dust netting barriers at our Kalgold operation in phases. Phase 1 of the installation was successfully completed in January 2024 with 19 650m of netting at 5m spacing intervals installed at the northern and north-eastern top slopes of the TSF to reduce dust fallout in surrounding areas.
