EIS – Proposed Large Scale Open Cast Mining Project In Ngolo Area Of Chisamba District, Central Province By Orein Resources Limited. (License No. 38621-HQ-LEL)

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EIS – Proposed Large Scale Open Cast Mining Project In Ngolo Area Of Chisamba District, Central Province By Orein Resources Limited. (License No. 38621-HQ-LEL)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Orein Resources Limited was incorporated in Zambia on the 22 day of February 2024 under the PACRA Registration Certificate Number 120241002693. Orein Resources Limited is a Zambian registered company, whose directors and shareholders have been involved in mineral exploration business for some time now. Orein Resources Limited discovered the mineral ore deposits within its license area and would want to mine this discovered ore using open cast mining method from one main open pit. It is thus this decision to start mining operations within the license area that has warranted for this study to be conducted, prior to exercising the right to mine.
The project license area which is 7459.8696ha in extent lies in the Northeast flank of Chisamba district, Central Province and has potential for high tonnage, high grade Gold mineralization. The area is underlain by Late Proterozoic Lufilian Arc which is a major thrust fold belt consisting of antiformal Mesoproterozoic basement inliers or domes unconformably overlain by Neoproterozoic sediments of the Katangan Supergroup. In places the Proterozoic rocks are covered by flat lying Tertiary age Kalahari Sand formations. The deposits are located within the NE trending bi-lobate basement inlier. The external perimeter of this inlier is defined by a resistive, micaceous quartzite interpreted to be part of the basal Katangan Lower Roan sequence. Internal to this quartzite, are several structurally emplaced inliers of sillimanite bearing micaceous quartzite (Lower Roan), marbles and amphibolites (Upper Roan) and a sequence of upper amphibolite grade metamorphic gneisses, migmatites, minor schist’s and metagranites.