Our overriding philosophy for process development is as follows:
- Use standard technology that can be rapidly taken into production.
- Maximize recovery of pay metals.
- Achieve a commercial quality concentrates or metals.
- Minimize operating costs, principally by saving on comminution and reagent consumptions.
- Minimize capital costs, principally by saving on comminution requirements.
- Keep the flowsheet simple.
- Minimize the cost of tailings disposal.
- Develop a low cost environmental management system for hazardous wastes.
- Ensure that the process will be effective as projected for all mining blends, particularly in the first five years.
- Recover potential secondary income streams.
- Review and fortify the site wide water balance.
- Identify and quantify project risks regularly.
- Use existing technologies to mitigate critical risks.
