Tizert copper deposit, in Morocco
Managem Group has awarded engineering group DRA Global’s Montreal office a contract to conduct the bankable feasibility study (BFS) on the Tizert copper project, located in the Souss-Massa province of Morocco.
The Tizert copper deposit is located on the northern edge of the Igherm Precambrian buttonhole and is the largest copper deposit in the western Anti-Atlas copperbelt.
This underground mine, with targeted production of 3.3-million tonnes of ore a year, will use multiple mining methods including room and pillar and long-hole stopping.
An aerial ropeway system will be used to convey the ore from the mine site to the process plant site across an 800-m-wide and 250-m-deep canyon.
The process plant will be a flotation concentrator that produces oxide and sulphide copper concentrates.
DRA’s Montreal office has been awarded the full BFS scope which will include mining, backfill, ore transport, process plant and related infrastructure.
The BFS is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2020.