RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Input vs Output, TPA vs TPH.5ilverlining808 wrote: Just a bit of a backflip here, but after some thought and recollections from 2013 I think the feed rate to the mills is in total a bit more than 200 tph which is 1.75 mil tpa for both mill streams (100+ tph each).
But if one mill stream goes down due to equipment breakdowns or regular maintenance the other stream can ramp up to 200 tph to take the load and keep the process operating at peak without interuption.
The numbers should now make sence.
Sorry for the brain fart as it has been almost 10 years since I worked on this project.
From QuarterDollar to me :- "If you are saying there is only one stream with Almonty, then how does the plant stay up 24x7? It doesn't seem to me that LB would take the risk of anything that could cause an interruption in ore processing. Reliability and consistency is the brand that LB is selling to distinguish Almonty from all other players. There has to be some redundancy somewhere, even if performance is degraded."
I would have to say that WMC CEO Brian was not interested in cost saving, but wanted the process to begin asap.
His plan was at $150 mil and he had no input from his own wallet.
He lives by that rule to never use your own money to build a project.
So to go all out to build with other peoples cash was good for him at no personal cost.
It did look OK at first until I saw the Almonty plan, plus the CEO Lewis Black open his wallet, buy shares, reduce costs across the board at every opportunity and continue to do so for the interest of all.
Los Santos has one mill as did Woulfram Camp, Panasqueira, I'm not sure what they have ?
All mines have a shut down period for regular maintenance due to wear components needing replacement parts.
This can happen 2 or 3 times per year (or more if ore is abrasive od hard rock), and the longest shutdown is generally over the Xmass period that would last for 4 weeks or so depending if it is just to replace wear parts or increase tph for plant upgrades which requires equipment swap outs.
2 streams of mills still need to have a full maintenance shut down plus more.
The old 3D Flyover video shows one conveyor feeding the plant mills, and that, as I understand is one stream of 2 mills.
One Sag Mill and one Ball Mill.
24/7 plant running time does not mean for the whole year of opperation, and plants stop and restart many times in just one month due to computor glitches, breakdowns, leaky or worn out pipes, screen decks wear out to show holes and valve failures, but if (and I am sure) the future on site workshop and spare parts inventory spares on site in store have a repair team that will fix most probs in hours.
You could cut up to 15 or more weeks per year from operational production depending on everythng.
But you could see much less at the begining of this project as all, or most items are brand new and should have some sort of warranty..