Kentor Acquired Equipment for 350,000 tpa heap leach The equipment included:
- A two stage crushing plant;
- Heap leaching equipment including an agglomerator, conveyors and stacker;
- Carbon absorption tanks; and
- Elution column and gold room.
The elution column and gold room will be used in the processing circuit, which provides Kentor with a cost effective means of re-commissioning the plant.
The crushing equipment will upgrade the throughput capacity of the plant and Kentor said the heap leaching equipment could be used to establish a heap leaching operation to treat the low grade ore at Burnakurra.
350,000 tons times 1 gms/ ton times 90% recovery =11,000 ounces of gold per year.
@$1800 POG, annual revenues will be about $20 million US per year = about $25 million cad .
Cash flows from heap leaching can then be used to pay most of the operating costs of underground mining.
Neat and complementary mining operations ..