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Plant Contract Awarded
Plant Contract Awarded.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n KazakhGold Group Ltd\n17 July 2007\n\n\n\nJULY 17, 2007\n\n KAZAKHGOLD AWARDS CONTRACT FOR NEW\n TAILINGS RE-TREATMENT PLANTS\n AT BESTOBE AND ZHOLYMBET\n\n\n\n • Maed Awarded Design And Construction Contract For 2mtpa Units\n • Will Form Nucleus Of Planned 4mtpa Hard Rock CIP Plants At Each Mine\n • Buildings To Be Fast-Tracked To Allow Construction Through Winter Months\n\n______________________________________________________________________\n\nKazakhGold Group Limited (LSE: KZG) is pleased to announce that Maed, the\ninternational engineering, construction and consultancy group that has a\ncomprehensive global design and construction experience of mineral processing\nplants, has been awarded the contract to design and construct new tailings\nre-treatment plants at the Bestobe and Zholymbet gold mines in northern\nKazakhstan. Maed are recognised as being leaders in the mineral processing field\nwho have undertaken numerous projects, including tailings retreatment plants, on\nthree Continents.\n\nThese new facilities, together with a similar new plant planned for the Aksu\nmine at a later date, form a fundamental part of KazakhGold's Accelerated\nInvestment Plan significantly to increase the long-term production target of the\nGroup. All three plants will have identical configuration, each being capable of\ntreating 2m tonnes/year (mtpa) of reclaimed tailings.\n\nEach plant will consist of two sections at separate locations - the tailings dam\nand processing plant sites. The tailings dam section will consist of a\nre-mining plant where the re-claimed tailings material can be screened,\nre-pulped for transport to the main treatment plant. This will comprise\nmilling, classification and thickening sections, followed by a leach/CIP\ncircuit. The leaching section will utilise oxygen shear technology\n(accelerating the kinetics of the gold dissolution reaction) to pre-condition\nthe pulp prior to cyanide addition, and adsorption of the gold will be based on\ncarbon-in-pulp technology.\n\nIn the recently published annual report, KazakhGold confirmed that the\nAccelerated Investment Plan will increase the proportion of ore treated by the\nmore efficient carbon-in-pulp (CIP) process. New 4mtpa CIP plants will be\nconstructed at each of the three main mines to process oxide ore. The main\ntreatment sections of the tailings re-...