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July Newsletter

July 2016

Consep July Newsletter is available to download. Please press the download link below to see up to date events and news.

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Yaramoko’s first gold pour with Consep Acacia

May 2016

Consep would like to congratulate Roxgold’s Yaramoko Gold Mine on their first gold pour ahead of schedule on May 16, 2016. Located in Burkino Faso, West Africa, Consep supplied Yaramoko with a specialised gravity circuit consisting of Consep Sizetec SDS38 Screen, Knelson 2 x KC-XD20 Concentrators and the Acacia CS500 dissolution and electrowinning module. The initial gold pour totalled 1020 ounces.

Additional details on the first pour and photo gallery can be found on Roxgold’s Press Release below: Roxgold Achieves First Gold Pour Ahead Of Schedule At Yaramoko & Roxgold First Gold Pour Photo Gallery

Photo: John Dorward and Paul Criddle

January Newsletter

January 2016

Consep January Newsletter is available to download. Please press the download link below to see up to date events and news.

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Sampling of the Beast

November 2015

Consep is proud to be a long term supplier of sampling technology to Fortescue Metals Group.

On the 26th November 2015 The Australian Financial Review reported on ‘The Beast Saving Fortescue’. The beast they were referring to is the 60m high ore processing facilities (OPF’s) used to upgrade the iron ore at FMG’s Christmas Creek site, which use a wide array of Consep sampling technology to allow process monitoring and metallurgical accounting of the plant. The OPF’s have been core to the halving of FMG’s C1 operating costs.

Fortescue has improved its beneficiation processes to the extent that lower grade ore considered uneconomic just two years ago is now being processed and sold. The OPFs can now more easily extract iron and upgrade it to the required 58 per cent grade and remove unwanted impurities such as silica and alumina.

"The OPF technology is incredibly important because it allows us to continually lower the mining grades," chief executive Nev Power said.

"We are not putting relatively high iron units in the waste pile, we are mining that, processing it to upgrade it to product grades and then selling that."

Because of the changes at the OPFs, Fortescue can 'bulk mine' the Christmas Creek pits with excavators, which are essentially big shovels, in turn dramatically lowering its strip ratios and its operating costs.”

Consep supplied a wide range of samplers to the project, and subsequently to the Kings and Firetail operations, which allow the site to monitor the performance of the OPF’s.
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