Otso Gold Corp. V.OTSO

RE:RE:Mill Preformance

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Castling1 wrote: I follow your logic but you miss my point entirely, miners always scramble for tonnage during startup and ramp up, grade suffers as a result, sometimes both.
Appreciate the candor.

Sorry about that, I thought you were talking about some thing else.

I do agree that some existing mines under going an upgrade with the existing plant operators on site do tend to push the system to its limits and beyond. (an experiment on limitations).

They do also tend to ignore the contracted commissioning teams request to keep the plant at the parameters that are requied for the proven results over many months of production according to the contracts.

In the coal mining industry, I have been there and done that with upgrades from 600-1000 tph to 900-1500 tph process plants.

 The operators, underground / pit miners, truck drivers and even the cleaners were all getting paid a tph through-put bonus per month, so, they did not care if the product was tainted and not up to optimum grade.
The operators that I pointed out to the mine manager, in those cases generally were kicked off site and temp replaced by some from a sister mine near by untill commissioning was completed.
In one case we had the mines security guards watching and restricting the movements of plant operators from touching anything.

So I understand your comment on tonne ramp up madness by operators, but it does not yet fit the equation.
I dont think this is the prob as you pointed out.

All the talk on OTSO seems to be on the past.
Forget that, and focus on the now and the future.
This is a small project that should not suffer from employee pressure to push the process plant beyond limits, as nothing has happened yet and there is no real reason for them to be on site anymore while the plant is stagnent.

Future is the goal now, not the past.