
AR Main and AR South are massive ore bodies up to 30 m wide and are ideally suited to the long-hole open stope mining method, while the remainder of the Blanket ore bodies are tabular and better suited to underhand stoping methods. ... WARNING There are reports of persons in Zimbabwe illicitly posing as employees of the group acting in a ... ECONOMIC MINERALSGOLD Gold mining and exploration in Zimbabwe has been going on from ancient times and it is estimated that a third (about 700 tonnes) of all historical gold production was mined locally from the seventh century until the introduction of mechanized mining methods with the arrival of Europeans about a century ago. There are over 4000 recorded god deposits, nearly all of them ...