{"id":5817,"date":"2016-06-30T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2016-06-30T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:06:18","slug":"mbeya-coal-to-power-project-completion-of-water-availability-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/mbeya-coal-to-power-project-completion-of-water-availability-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbeya Coal to Power Project: Completion of Water Availability Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
30 June 2016<\/h5>\n

Kibo Mining plc (“Kibo” or the “Company”) (AIM: KIBO; AltX: KBO), the Tanzania focussed mineral exploration and development company is pleased to announce completion \u00a0of \u00a0the independent, \u00a0integrated \u00a0Water Availability Study for the Mbeya Coal to Power Project (\u201cMCPP\u201d).<\/p>\n

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The Water Availability Study (\u201cthe Study\u201d), to determine sustainable groundwater \u00a0yields \u00a0and \u00a0pit inflows through aquifer testing and numerical flow modelling, was performed by Shangoni Management Services, the consultants appointed to execute the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment \u00a0for the MCPP. The following activities \u00a0formed part of the Study:<\/p>\n

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  1. Geophysics (resistivity surveys) within the vicinity of the Study area, with focus \u00a0in and around the pit area to determine geological anomalies \u00a0or lineaments and preferential flow paths for the movement \u00a0of groundwater.<\/li>\n
  2. Drilling of boreholes into identified anomalies.<\/li>\n
  3. Aquifer testing (slug and pump testing) to \u00a0determine aquifer hydraulics for flow modelling (pit inflows) \u00a0and sustainable \u00a0borehole yields.<\/li>\n
  4. Water sampling for hydro chemical and biological analyses (and general borehole surveys including GPS surveying (XYZ) and static water levels for model calibration).<\/li>\n
  5. Numerical modelling inclusive of steady- and transient state flow models to determine pit inflows for the Life of Mine (\u201cLoM\u201d) and dewatering strategies. \u00a0The \u00a0numerical \u00a0model aimed to:\n
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    • estimate the groundwater seepage rate to the pit over the Life of Mine (LOM); and<\/li>\n
    • estimate the \u00a0sustainable \u00a0yield \u00a0of the aquifer(s) in the area with a view \u00a0to meeting the bulk water supply to the proposed project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The Study concluded that ground water would be available in sufficient and sustainable quantities throughout the life of plant, to adequately supply the power station with water in accordance with the power plant design specifications, \u00a0stated in the MCPP Power Feasibility Study.<\/p>\n

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      30 June 2016 Kibo Mining plc (“Kibo” or the “Company”) (AIM: KIBO; AltX: KBO), the Tanzania focussed mineral exploration and development company is pleased to announce completion \u00a0of \u00a0the independent, \u00a0integrated \u00a0Water Availability Study for the Mbeya Coal to Power Project (\u201cMCPP\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kibo.energy\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}