Business
Stellar AfricaGold - Balandougou Gold Project, Guinea Commissioning Of Gravity Plant And Bulk Sample Program To Commence March 10, 2018
(via TheNewswire) Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / March 1, 2018 - John Cumming , Pre...
About this update from Stellar Africagold, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"Stellar AfricaGold - Balandougou Gold Project, Guinea Commissioning Of Gravity Plant And Bulk Sample Program To Commence March 10, 2018(via TheNewswire)\n\n \nVancouver, BC / TheNewswire / March 1, 2018 - John Cumming, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stellar AfricaGold Inc., (TSX-V: SPX) (\"Stellar\" or the \"Company\") announces: \n\n \n \nBALANDOUGOU GOLD PROJECT, GUINEA\n\n\n \nGRAVITY PLANT COMMISSIONING AND BULK SAMPLE PROGRAM TO BEGIN MARCH 10, 2018\n\n \n \nConstruction of the 150 tonnes per day (\"tpd\") gravity separation plant at the B3 Zone of Stellar's 100% controlled Balandougou Gold Project in Guinea is mostly complete and final equipment checks are underway. The commissioning of mill equipment and the bulk sample program is scheduled to begin on March 10, 2018.\n\n \n \nThe Company installed a state-of-the-art gravity separation mill to process a 15,000 tonnes bulk sample to test the economic viability of processing the 60-metre thick oxide portion of the B3 Zone gold mineralization using gravity separation only. The Company has already extracted and stockpiled the 15,000 tonne sample adjacent to the mill site. Processing of the bulk sample is scheduled to begin on March 10, 2018 and the mill's daily throughput volumes will gradually ramp up during the commissioning period as processing procedures and equipment are fine tuned. Completion of the bulk sample program will take approximately 4 months and, subject to a positive economic evaluation of the bulk sample processing, the Company will consider continuing milling operations on an on-going commercial basis.\n\n \n \n\nClick Image To View Full Size\n\n \n \nABOUT THE GRAVITY PLANT\n\n \n \nThe 150 t/p/d gravity mill consists of a production line composed of an upper vibrating feeder, a primary crusher, a cylinder washing plant, a secondary fine crusher, a ball mill and an S-60 Knelson concentrator. From the Knelson concentrator the concentrate enters the gold recovery room, a 40' shipping container repurposed into a secured facility, where it is fed onto a Model 6S shaking table having a capacity to process 30-60 t/p/d of gold concentrate, and finally the recovered raw gold will be fed into a high frequency smelting furnace. The plant is powered by a 250-kilowatt YTO diesel generator and water is supplied by two 100-metres deep water producing between 1...