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MEI Online: Commodities: Metallic Ores: Gold: Latest News: May 8th 2006 |
:: New Style Gold Plant Commissions Smoothly as Scheduled Gekko Systems report that Stage 1 of Ballarat Goldfields’ (BGF) low cost and fast delivery gold recovery plant was commissioned successfully as scheduled. Stage 1 of the Ballarat Goldfields plant has a number of unusual features designed to take advantage of the coarse gold ore body. The plant is designed to run initially at a full capacity of 600,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) and is expandable well beyond that. Plant throughput is expected to rise to a rate of 400,000 tpa by the end of this calendar year, a rate which has already been achieved during plant commissioning.
The Gekko Gravity Recovery System runs in closed circuit with the VSI and consists of rougher and scavenger InLine Pressure Jigs (IPJ) followed by a cleaner IPJ that produces a concentrate stream of approximately 4% of the mass (5% design). Mass pull is variable depending on the sulphide loading in the circuit. A Falcon concentrator scavenges the final tail. Final tailings residues to date have been better than expected and well below design. Stage 2 of the process plant is planned to incorporate an intensive cyanidation plant to maximise the recovery of gold from the sulphide concentrate stream. Significant work has been carried out on the actual concentrates to ensure the downstream process will be at least as efficient as the primary recovery circuit. Given that the plant is located in the equipment supplier’s home town, Gekko have provided a broader service than normal. To date this has included site preparation and construction management. Gekko have also established a subsidiary Operations and Project management team, Spinifex Projects, to operate the BGF processing plant.
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