Pearson Gold Mine

The Pearson mine is located about 30km north of Harare. The Mine is reach by travelling 26km and the Harare –Bindura road, Mazowe, Zimbabwe.

Mazowe area lies within the extensive Harare-Bindura-shamva Greenstone Belt (HBSG), which comprises volcano sedimentary piles and various intrusive rocks. The oldest preserved rocks in the greenstones are of the Iron Mask formation comprising felsic volcanic. The Iron Mask formation is overlain by thick met basalt of the Acturus Formation and the Amanda’s Basaltic member to the south west .There is a sheared contact between the two formation .the Passaford is the upper formation of the Bulawayan Group comprising various metafelsic volcanics intercalated with metasediments .the Greenstones Belt is economically important and is host to some of the largest mines in the country e.g. Freda Rebecca, Shamva Gold Mines, Mazowe group and Acturus Mine.

The following is the infrastructure that is found at the Mine:

1. Two compressors
2. Four jackhammers
3. One two tonne ball mill
4. One two tonne jaw Crusher
5. One Nelson Concentrator
6. One copper plate
7. One dumper
8. One tractor
9. Four cabins
10. One generator
11. One borehole
12. One magazine

The mine currently employs a workforce of 40 people.
Historical production of Pearson mine (Pears) stands at 200g from 2-3 tonnes of ore.
Average grade was 71.7g/t over 14cm.

The claims are hoisted by the Metadacites of the greenstone. It is in contact with the Metabasalts (also of the greenstone) approximately 150m to the east of the claims. The claims lie within a highly fractured zone, sandwiched by 2 parallel, north-east trending sinistral strike-slip faults. The major Pearson Fault borders the south western end of the claims while the other minor fault lies only about 200m to the north. Fig 1 below shows the geographical map of Pearson claims. The Metadacites which hosts the reef (~12cm-30cm wide) impart a homogenous fine grained, light brown weathered material down to 8m deep. Below this level, it is poorly weathered, highly competent, darkgrey in colour, with an aphanitic texture. The rock fabric displays a preferred orientation (schistocity) and is highly deformed with an assortment of tectonic structure like fissure, fractures and well developed cleavages(S fabrics near the surface and builds into several small stringers (~4-6cm width)which merge to give relative wide reef(~12cm-30cm width)with depth. It generally strikes 0700 and dips 50-550north-west. The reef contains zones of a country rock at certain places along strike and displays swelling and pinching patterns.