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SITE FACILITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING
- Fully serviced and permitted processing facility
- On-site crushing using Cedar Rapids jaw/roll crusher (8” feed/15-20 t/hr capacity)
- Tailings disposal available.
DMS PLANTS
- 1 and 15 t/hour throughputs
- 2 x 1 t/hr plants -100 mm cyclone for recovery of diamonds up to 6 mm
- 1 x 15 t/hr plant – 360 mm cyclone for recovery of diamonds up to 25 mm
- Plant operating efficiency monitored using density tracers
PROCESSING CIRCUIT - Sample crushing and scrubbing circuits to match DMS capacity
- Scrubbing/desliming @ 0.8 mm bottom screen size
- Recycle/regrind on primary recovery circuit to recover locked diamonds
DIAMOND RECOVERY - Grease table and SORTEX™ recovery of diamonds from DMS concentrate streams
- Recycle/regrind of grease table and SORTEX™ rejects
- QA/QC program using natural diamond spikes (currently 99.5% recovery)
- Final diamond recovery from grease table and X-ray concentrates in secure,limited access facility
SITE SECURITY INCLUDES - Locked compound
- Contract security service: 24 hr/day, 7 days/week
- Multiplex recording facilities with 9 camera portals
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE LIST - El Indio (Barrick Gold Corp)
- Chuquicamata Refinery (CODELCO)
- Salsigne (France) (Mines de Salsigne)
- Giant Yellowknife (Giant Mines)
- Con Gold Mine (NERCO)
- Campbell Red Lake Gold Mine (Placer Dome Inc.)
- El Pachon (Cambior Inc.)
- Noranda Inc.
- Lihir Gold Mine (Kennecott)
- Olympias Gold Mine (TVX Hellas)
- Getchell Gold Operations (Placer Dome Inc.)
- Kwe Kwe Treatment Facility (Zimbabwe) (Fluor Daniel Wright)
- Ashanti (Ghana) (Ashanti Goldfields - Kilborn)
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