Introduction

Khumani iron ore mine - formerly known as the Bruce, King and Mokaning (“BKM”) Project, which refers to the farms on which the iron ore resources are located - is situated approximately 30km south of the town of Kathu and approximately 65 km north of Beeshoek Mine, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. 

Khumani Iron Ore mine replaces the older Beeshoek Iron Ore Mine as the main iron ore producer for Assmang. Although originally designed to produce 10 million tons of export quality iron ore each year.  It now has the capacity to produce 14 million tons of product after completion of phase 2 of Khumani Expansion Project. 
The iron ore mined at Khumani Iron Ore Mine is exported via the Saldanha Bay Iron Ore Bulk Terminal.

Brief History

Civil construction began on 05 October 2006, by which time the majority portion of the earthworks was completed. Steel and platework fabrication commenced the following day. Mechanical construction at the Parson processing plant commenced on 09 March 2007, quickly followed by piping, fabrication and erection in May that same year. The month of May proved to be critical in the ever-evolving history of Khumani as the very first blast took place during this month, which dislodged approximately 600,000 tons of ore for collection and treatment. The mine infrastructure packages progressed well and by October 2007, parts of the plant were ready for cold commissioning. 

Hot commissioning, the last major primary testing phase, began at the end of 2007. The first consignment of ore was delivered to the Bruce primary crusher in December 2007. Both the on- and off-grade screening plants were ready to treat ore by late 2007, while construction of the jigs and High Pressure Grinding Roll (HPGR) sections were still in progress. The jig plants were the last element to be finalized with commissioning taking place in July 2008. Assmang was able to bring Khumani to the development and ramp up stage by the early months of 2008. 

The initial ramp up phase came to an end in 2009 and on 12 April 2009 the company announced that the mine had reached its full production capacity of 10 million tons per annum. Assmang was obliged, as per agreement with Transnet Limited, to put 6 million tons of iron ore on the export line during the 2007/2008 fiscal year. With the processing plant unfinished at Khumani at that time, more than a million tons of Run of Mine (ROM) ore had to be transported by road to Beeshoek for processing. The other 5 million tons came from Beeshoek itself. The first train, destined for Saldanha Bay, was loaded at the mine in May 2008.

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