Wafi gold mine listed in top 10

 By JUNIOR UKAHA
THE Wafi gold mine, which is opening soon, has been listed among the top 10 mines in the world, an officer of the company revealed on Wednesday.
John Maran, Morobe Mining Joint Venture’s (MMJV) community engagement coordinator, said the pre-feasibility study results show that Wafi’s gold is among the highly-graded gold in the world.
Maran was at Babul in the Wampar LLG to witness the election of the executives of the Babuaf people, one of three landowner groups of the Wafi mine area.
“In the world, Wafi mine is number 10,” Maran said.
“It has one of the biggest gold deposits,” he said.
“There is enough gold for mining to take place.
“Exploration and feasibility studies are over.”
Maran’s comments came after work at the Wafi site was scaled down awaiting decisions by the MMJV executive management to proceed with the actual gold extraction.
“I will come around with a projector to the four villages of Babuaf and do awareness when this happens,” he said.
Maran told the Babuaf people that Wafi would be one of the driving forces in the development of Morobe once it comes into operation.
He told them to make use of the opportunity the mine would provide and not to cause division among themselves, fighting over the benefits from the mine’s operation.