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Ternova

Producer in Albania with commodity Chromium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10279427
MAS/MILS ID 4810050004
Record type Site
Current site name Ternova
Alternate or previous names Bater, Temova, Bulqize, Bulqiza, Ternove, Bater-Martanesh

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: 20.36853, 41.41548 (WGS84)
Elevation 2000
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Albania(country)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country
Albania

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN THE DIBRA DISTRICT, ABOUT 10 KM SE OF BULQUIZA AND EAST OF BATRA/MARTANESH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnesite Unknown
Olivine Unknown
Talc Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) 20.36853, 41.41548
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 STRATABOUND
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FOLDING
    Secondary Ore Control FAULTING
    Date of Last Modification 920706

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Mining method Open Stope - Sublevel
Milling method Gravity

Comments on exploration

  • THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE EXPLORATION AT TERNOVE. C.R.U. ESTIMATES THAT TOTAL RESERVES AT BOTH TERNOVE AND NEWPOINTS TO BE 200,000 METRIC TONS.

Mining district

District name Mati

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Minera Veriore Kromit-Bulqize Combined
    Interest 100
    Home office Albania
    Year 1991

Production statistics

  • Year 1986
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ore Throughput (Estimated) 5000 Mt Ore
  • Year 1987
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ore Throughput (Estimated) 3000 Mt Ore
  • Year 1988
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ore Throughput (Estimated) 30000 Mt Ore
  • Year 1989
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ore Throughput (Estimated) 41000 Mt Ore

Comments on the production information

  • THIS MINE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE BULQIZA MASSIF, APPROXIMATELY 20 KILOMETERS SOUTHEAST OF THE MAIN BULQIZA OPERATIONS. THERE IS NO GEOLOGICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OREBODIES AT TERNOVA AND THOSE AT BULQIZA. TERNOVA PRODUCES SOME 30,000 TONS PER YEAR OF ORE GRADING 30 TO 41 PERCENT CR2O3. EXPLORATION IS CONTINUING AROUND THE MINE TO DELINEATE FURTHER RESERVES.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES WERE ESTIMATED BY C.R.U. TO BE ONE-HALF OF THE COMBINED RESERVES OF NEWPOINTS/TERNOVE, WHICH IS EQUAL TO 100,000 METRIC TONS. C.R.U. REPORTED THAT TOTAL MILL PRODUCTION IN 1989 WAS 150,000 METRIC TONS OF CONCENTRATE.
  • ALL INFORMATION BECAME AVAILABLE IN EARLY 1990 (AFTER NETWORK FLOW MODEL BUILT). AS OF 1988, 30,000 MTPY ROM AT 35-42 % CR2O3. ALL EXPORTED. THE GRADE IS THE HEADGRADE WHICH PROBABLY INCLUDES DILUTION. NOTE, THAT THE TEMOVA MINE IS ONE OF FOUR MINES IN THE BULQIZE MINING DISTRICT. THE FOUR MINES OF THE BULQIZE MINING DISTRICT ARE THE TODO MANCO, BULQIZE SOUTH, NEWPOINTS, AND TERNOVE MINES. 1992 ADIT DATA: TERNOVA MINE ROM CAPACITY= 35,000 MTPY; ROM PROD.= 31,000 MT RESERVE BASE GRADE = AVG. OF 20-42 % CR2O3 RANGE GIVEN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ESTIMATE
    Mining Method SUBLEVEL 10-43
    Hardness of Rock UNKNOWN
    Rock Characteristics UNKNOWN
    Rock Support Chars. UNKNOWN
    1st Condition of Workings UNKNOWN
    Capacity 160
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Operating Days per Year 250
    Operating Shifts per Day 2
    Year of Information 1991

Comments on other economic factors

  • SOME OF THE TOTEL ORE FROM TERNOVE IS SENT TO THE KLOS DRESSING PLANT. A PROCESSING PLANT NEAR THE MINE SITE HAS A CAPACITY OF 240,000 TONS PER YEAR. THE PLANT IS A STATE-RUN ENTERPRIZE, WHICH ALSO HANDLES UP TO 150,000 TONS PER YEAR OF ORE FROM OTHER OPERATIONS. IN PARTICULAR, THE PLANT PROCESSES THE ORE FROM THE SOUTHERN BULQIZA MINE, WHICH IS A LOW-GRADE CHROMITE MINE PRODUCING 3 MILLION TONS AT 7 TO 14 PERCENT CR2O3 NEAR THE MAIN BULQIZA MINE.
  • PRODUCTION BEGAN IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Commodity

    COMMODITIES RESEARCH UNIT, LTD., THE BASE METAL INDUSTRY

  • Commodity

    OF ALBANIA, LONDON, PP. 55 (1991).

  • Commodity

    KIPPENBERGER, C., REPORT OF AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO ALBANIA

  • Commodity

    TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THE SITUATION IN THE MINERAL

  • Commodity

    RESOURCES SECTOR, JULY 28, 1988 TO AUG. 11, 1988, FEDERAL

  • Commodity

    INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES (BGR),

  • Commodity

    HANNOVER (1988).

  • Commodity

    MINING JOURNAL RESEARCH SERVICES, MINING IN ALBANIA: AN

  • Commodity

    EMERGING OPPORTUNITY, PP. 54-57, 60 (MAY 1992)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE TEMOVA MINE, PART OF THE BULQIZA DISTRICT, IS SITUATED WITHIN THE BULQIZA MASSIF, FOUND EAST-NORTHEAST OF TIRANA. THE BULQIZA MINING DISTRICT PRODUCES SOME 200,000 TONS OF ORE PER YEAR, AND IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF HIGH-GRADE METALLURGICAL CHROMITE. PRODUCTION IS ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE BY MORE THAN 50 PERCENT, TO 320,000 TONS PER YEAR, WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DECLINE, WHICH IS AN ACCESS ROAD THAT SPIRALS DOWNWARDS AND IS USUALLY IN THE FOOTWALL OF THE OREBODY, HAS BEEN COMPLETED. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DECLINE WILL INCREASE THE NUMBER OF DRAW AND ACCESS POINTS AND WAS RECOMMENDED AFTER A STUDY OF THE BULQIZA MINING AND PROCESSING FACILITIES WAS CARRIED OUT BY GERMAN MINING ENGINEERS IN 1991. THE STUDY HELPED DETERMINE THE TECHNOLOGY AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT REQUIRED TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MINE AND PROCESSING FACILITY. THE OREBODY CONSISTS OF A TWO TO SIX METER THICK FOLDED LAYERS OF CHROMITE ORE, ENVELOPED IN A DUNITIC HALO, SURROUNDED BY SERPENTINISED HARZBURGITE. POST-MINERALIZATION TECTONICS HAS DEVELOPED MANY FAULTS WHICH DISLOCATE THE ORE BY 50 METERS, HOWEVER FAULT DISPLACEMENTS TEND TO AVERAGE AROUND TWO METERS. THE GEOLOGIC RESOURCE IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE ORDER OF 20 MILLION TONS OF WHICH RECOVERABLE RESERVES ARE ESTIMATED AT 5 MILLION TONS AT A GRADE OF 46 TO 52 PERCENT CR2O3. WITH THE OREBODY OPEN DOWN DIP AND ALONG STRIKE, THERE IS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR A DOUBLING OF RESERVES. THIS CHROMITE ORE DISPLAYS A FULL RANGE OF TEXTURES WHICH ARE: NODULAR, MASSIVE, AND DISSEMINATED. THE MOST ABUNDANT ORE TYPE IS THE DISSEMINATED FORM, WHICH CONSISTS OF UNIFORM DISSEMINATIONS OF THE CHROME-SPINEL GRAINS COMPRISING 65 TO 80 PERCENT OF THE ROCK. THE DISSEMINATED ORE IS PREDOMINATELY MEDIUM-GRAINED, 1 TO 5 MILLIMETERS, CONSISTING OF THE CHROME-SPINEL OF THE MAGNOCHROMITE TYPE. THE HIGH-GRADE SECTIONS OF THE OREBODY CAN CONTAIN UP TO 55 PERCENT CR2O3, WHILE THE LOWER GRADE SECTIONS CARRY ABOUT 19 PERCENT CR2O3. GANGUE MINERALS INCLUDE OLIVINE, SERPENTINE, TALC, MAGNESITE, AND TREMOLITE. THERE ARE RARE OCCURRENCES OF SULPHIDES SUCH AS PENTLANDITE, PYRRHOTITE, AND PYRITE HAVE BEEN RECORDED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-SEP-95 Boyle, Ed U.S. Bureau of Mines

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