RE:Secundary crusher ToreSweden wrote:
we did not yet got confirmed if the secunarty and tertyary crushers are up and running. Just a test run for four hours. Wants more information here. Are we getting ore to the pad in some mean full way yet? There should be machinery to spread ore out over the pad. Yet there is only pics about dumpers moving ore from the end of convayer. We are talking about 1200ton per hour here so dumper loads is an piss in Mississippi.
The four hour test was nothing but a dry run of the secondary crusher motor and lubrication system. You can see in the picture the feed chute from the secondary screen to the secondary crusher is not even in place, and the crusher does not even have the feed cone and the feed plate installed. To conclude: the secondary crusher did not see any ore during that test.
Tertiary crushers are not even close to be ready for operation. Yet VIT is stacking ore on the leach pad - it looks like they are ready to sacrifice recoveries (by not crushing to 6.4 mm using the tertiary crushers), only to keep their non-sense target of the "first gold pour"....