Natougou Gold Project

Project Overview

Semafo Gold, through its subsidiary Birimian Resources SARL, completed an NI 43-101 compliant feasibility study on the Natougou Gold Project. The project is located 320 km east of Ouagadougou in the Tapoa Province. The project will comprise an open pit mine and CIP processing plant with a throughput of 4,000 tpd.

Tailings generated as part of mining operations will be stored in an engineered tailings storage facility proposed to be located to the northeast of the processing plant. The tailings will be thickened to percent solids of 62-64% prior to sub-aerial deposition into the proposed TSF. The TSF is proposed to be constructed by downstream construction methods in stages over the life of the project.

Project Role

Knight Piésold was appointed to provide geotechnical and construction QA/QC services for developing the Natougou Gold Project.

Knight Piésold provided the following services: 

• Tailings storage facility detailed design
• Site water detailed design access
• Road detailed design ancillary
• Road detailed design
• Reporting and construction documentation
• Design project management

Laboratory test conducted included:

• Standard Proctor
• Atterberg
• Concrete
• Dispersion
• Particle size distribution
• Permeability
• In-situ density
• Particle and bulk density

Construction quality assurance program included:

• Tailings storage facility
• Surface water infrastructure (water storage facility, dams, ponds)
• Other earthworks (roads, bulk and detailed earthworks)
• Contract document and specification