Konongo Gold Project, Ghana

The Konongo Gold Project, located 200km northwest of Accra in Ghana, recommenced mining operations and poured its first gold in June 2011, within three months of obtaining environmental approval. The mine is 70% owned by Signature Metals and 30% by the Government of Ghana.

"The Konongo Gold Project, located 200km northwest of Accra in Ghana poured its first gold in June 2011."

In October 2011, Signature Metals announced its decision to be acquired by Singapore-based gold mining company LionGold. The deal is subject to the shareholders' approval. LionGold will become the new owner of the Konongo mine if the acquisition is successfully concluded.

The mine was discovered in 1903 and was operated by Mwana Africa until 1997. Signature Metals purchased the non-operational mine in May 2009 with an aim to expand mining operations in Africa.

The Konongo project comprises of 16 known gold deposits situated along the 12km strike of the Ashanti Gold Belt of Ghana. It covers nearly 192km2 of the belt area and involves re-commissioning and capacity increase of the Konongo Gold Project.

Signature Metals restarted the project in order to capitalise the potential reserves and expand the capacity to a targeted production rate of 700,000 tons per annum (tpa) while reducing the operating costs by 5% to 15%.

The project required an investment of $3bn to $4bn. AMITAAB, a Ghanaian construction and engineering company, was appointed to refurbish and reconstruct the existing infrastructure that included 350,000t of carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant.

Expansion of the Konongo mine

The Ministry of Land, Forests and Mining extended the mining license of the Konongo Gold Project by 13 years to 2023 based on the positive feasibility studies and environmental assessments completed by Tagit Consulting. The extension had allowed recommencing operations on the Konongo Gold Project which was lying idle since 1997.

The project involved refurbishment of the existing carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant and revising the mining designs and schedules to re-optimise production and operating margins. It also involved reclamation of the old Konongo tails dam.

Mining at the tails dam of the old Konongo recommenced after the environmental permit was received from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana in March 2011 and continued even in the third quarter of 2011.

Gold production rates at the Ghanaian mining project

Past production from the project was reported to be 1.6 million ounces (Moz) at a head grade of 11.8 grams per ton (g/t). The expansion aimed to increase the production by 40,000oz to 60,000oz of gold at grades of 2g/t to 3g/t.

The current capacity of the mine is 2,295oz of gold doré. Signature Metals plans to ramp-up the mining operations to 350,000tpa. Proceeds from the sale of initial production will be used for further exploration and expansion of the mine.

Geology and reserves of the Konongo gold mine

Most of the Konongo Gold prospect lies in the Obenemase area of the Ashanti Gold Belt. It consists of Upper Birimian and Tarkwaian rock series folded in the northeast trend. The Upper Birimian limbs are separated by Tarkwaian sediment in the syncline core in the southeast.

"The mine is 70% owned by Signature Metals and 30% by the Government of Ghana."

Mineralisation occurs in quartz reef style in disseminated sulphide present within the Upper Birimian Volcano-sedimentary rocks.

The Old Konongo tails dam contain indicated and inferred resources of 61,150oz graded at 1.09g/t on an average.

The total resource in the reclaimed project as of June 2010 is 19.6 million tons of gold graded at 2.02g/t for 1.27moz of contained gold.

The old Konongo project was an open pit operation. The expansion operations commenced with the mining of the new and existing open pit operations at the Apan, Asewera, Atansu and Boabedroo deposits located within a radius of 1k to 2.5km of the centre of the project area.

Transport and handling

Konongo Gold Project is accessible via sealed roads from the Tema Port in Accra. It is also in proximity to port facility at Takoradi, which is 300km south of the project area.

Ghana's high transmission electrical line also runs from the project area with a substation situated in the property. All other support business and services are located within 50km of the project area in Kumasi.

La Guitarra Silver Mine, Mexico

La Guitarra silver mine is situated 130km southwest of Mexico City in the Temascaltepec Mining District. The mining district is 100% owned by Canadian mining company Silvermex Resources and covers an area of 397km2.

The operations of the La Guitarra mine first began in the early 1550s and were ceased in the 19th century due to lack of technology and investment.

The mine was reopened in 1990 by Compania Mineria Arauco with an initial production capacity of 30 tons a day (tpd). Luismin purchased the licensing rights of the mine in 1993 and expanded the production rate to 340tpd.

Genco Resources (thereafter renamed Silvermex Resources) acquired the La Guitarra mine and a 340tpd processing plant from Luismin in August 2003.

The mine was closed in 2009 due to lack of development. Its operations recommenced in April 2010 and achieved its full production capacity of 320tpd in November 2011.

Reserves of gold and silver at the Mexican mine

Proven and probable reserves of the La Guitarra mine stand at 11mt graded at 113g/t Ag and 0.93g/t Au.

Geology of the Temascaltepec mining district

"The mining district is 100% owned by Canadian mining equipment company Silvermex Resources and covers an area of 397km2."

The La Guitarra mine lies in the southeastern end of the Mexican belt. It is situated in the southern part of the Sierra Madre Occidental or the Mid-Eocene Ignimbrite volcanic terrain.

The region is characterised by mafic volcanics of the Trans-Mexican belt superimposing the intermediate to felsic Eocene volcanics.

The mine hosts rocks from Mesozoic schist and slates to Tertiary age volcanics and intrusives. It is understood to have been mineralised due to the late Miocene volcanic disruptions.

Hundreds of epithermal veins cross the property. The veins are classified into four main trends namely El Coloso / Nazareno, La Guitarra, Mina de Agua and El Rincon. These veins are spanned to a strike length of 15km and depth of 4km.

Mineralisation at the La Guitarra silver mine

Mineralisation is hosted in the vein type ore bodies in the form of quartz-monzonite compositions. Silver mineralisation occurs in silver sulphides, acanthite, polybasite, proustite-pyrargyrite, sulfosalts and electrum.

Gold mineralisation contains electrum particles and free gold with oxidation features.

Other minerals include white crystalline quartz, chalcedony, amethyst and adularia, sphalerite, pyrite, fluorite, calcite, chalcopyrite, barite, galena and clay.

Production rates, mining methods and ore processing at La Guitarra

Production at the mine commenced in 1993.

"La Guitarra silver mine is situated 130km southwest of Mexico City in the Temascaltepec Mining District."

The mine produced 57,343t of ore containing 303,847oz of Ag and 3,284oz of Au between January 2011 and September 2011.

The La Guitarra deposit is mined using both open-pit and underground mining techniques. The conventional drilling and blasting is carried out in the open-pit operation. In the underground mining, access to cut and fill stope is provided by adits and ramps.

The development involved three operational pits (Los Angeles, La Cruz and Creston) and four main vein trends.

The stockpiled ore is processed in a concentrating mill having a rated capacity of 340tpd. It is crushed to 12.5mm in three stages by using jaw crushers.

The crushed ore is fed to two stockpiled conveyors for transmission to two grinding mills operating in parallel. The ground ore is carried to two counter current decantation (CCD) thickener circuits to undergo cyanide leaching in agitated tanks and generate pregnant solution.

The pregnant solution is transferred to the standard Merrill-Crowe Zinc Precipitation Circuit to recover silver and gold. The precipitates are fed to smelter to remove the contaminants and produce pure silver and gold dore bars for export.

The barren solution from the precipitation circuit is recirculated to the grinding circuit and CCD thickeners.

Sand Making Machinery for Sale in South Africa

In the middle of 2011, South Africa government plan to invest 95.5 billion USD dollars to infrastructure construction. For example, the rail way construction, the road construction, etc. Obviously, these construction projects will consume great many stone aggregates and sands. Great many business chances are created with making this policy. At this time, sand making machine in South Africawill be widely used.

Double Sand Making Machinery for Sale in South Africa

Sand making machines are Double key equipments all the time. In Australia, in Canada, in Spanish and other countries, Double sand making plants can be fond. Till now, we have a few sand making machines shipped to South Africa, but we do believe in the future, great many sand making plants in South Africa with Double products will be built with South Africa infrastructure construction.
The popular Double sand making machines are our VSI series and B series deep rotor vertical shaft impact crusher.

Double VSI sand making machine is used as the tertiary crusher in sand making crushing plant. The crushed sand (0~5mm) is very popular in concrete mixing, building and road construction industry. Also, VSI is widely used in metallic and nonmetallic ore, building material, manufactured sand crushing industries and in aggregates reshaping processing.

Advanced double pump oil lubrication system is used in VSI series sand making machine. This system ensures the machine is able to steadily work even one of the pump breaks down. As a result, the maintenance frequency and the downtime reduce obviously. Meanwhile, this type sand making machine is easy for maintenance because of hydraulic lift cap system.
The latest B series deep rotor vertical shaft impact crusher has many more advantages compared with the traditional VSI sand making machine:
1.Higher capacity: It adopts deep rotor, it is about 50% higher than normal rotor, which means more materials can be fed to the rotor and higher rotor throughput.
2.Longer service life: the deep rotor ensure the material go through the rotor smoothly, as a result, attrition is decreased and the service life of wear parts increase about 30%-50%.
3.Lower production cost: Optimized designs are used in the spare parts, such as segment design of rotor tip, application of diamond impact block and segment design of chamber lining plate.

South Africa sand making plants

One machine can not finish the work. One complete sand making plant consist of various crushers, such as jaw crusher, cone crusher, impact crushers, vibrating screen, etc. Double would like to help you find the best solution and offer the matched equipments matched with our design. In this way, the whole plants can work very well and you will get much more profit from South Africa sand making plants.
If you plan to invest in sand making plants in South Africa, or if you have any problems about the crushing industry, just be free to contact us. You can leave your email, we will answer you within 24 hours; you can also chat with our engineer on-line, this way, you can get many details immediately.

IROCK Tough Crushing Solutions

IROCK Crushers RDS-20 Portable Closed Circuit Impact Crusher

• Designed for processing quarry rock,demolition debris, and recyclable materials up to 500 tons per hour
• IROCK’s high performance 4 Bar Impactor with Three Stage Crushing provides up to 25% more productivity than competitive 3 Bar Machines, lowering your final cost/ton. Feed Opening 56” x 32”
• Powered by Caterpillar ® C-13 Engine and PT Tech Microprocessor Controlled Hydraulic Clutch HPTO12. Durable high performance components reduce your cost of ownership and maintenance

• Standard Crusher Discharge “ROCK BOX” with impact bed eliminates the need to replace costly liner plates resulting in dramatic savings in labor and wear parts, making for a more efficient and productive plant
• On Board Power for full plant operations and three extra outlets for auxiliary conveyers gives you maximum jobsite flexibility
• Hydraset Hopper™ makes for easy two piece move with a teardown requiring only one person and completed in as little as 30 minutes

IROCK Crushers RDS-15 Portable Closed Circuit Impact Crusher Plant 

• Designed for processing quarry rock, demolition debris, and recyclable material up to 350 tons per hour
• IROCK’s high performance 4 Bar Impactor with Three Stage Crushing provides up to 25% more productivity than competitive 3 Bar Machines, lowering your final cost/ton. Feed Opening 40” x 32”
• Powered by Caterpillar® C-9 Engine and PT Tech Microprocessor Controlled Hydraulic Clutch HPTO12. Durable high performance components reduce your cost of ownership and maintenance

• Standard Crusher Discharge “ROCK BOX” with impact beds eliminates the need to replace costly liner plates resulting in dramatic savings in labor and wear parts, making for a more efficient and productive plant.
• On Board Power for full plant operations and three extra outlets for auxiliary conveyers gives you maximum jobsite flexibility.

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Steel structure mining processing plants

Tanzania is rich is many kinds of mining resources, such as the gold resources, coal resources, iron ore resources and limestone and so on. These rich mineral resources attract a number of investors invest in Tanzania and build many Tanzania mining ore crushing plants every year.

Double has helped many customers build plenty of mining ore processing plants in Tanzania, for example, we help customers build mobile crushing plants, fix mining ore crushing plants on cement foundation and crushing plants on steel structure, which greatly help customers save time to build the foundation.

The advantages of Steel structure machine

Steel structure foundation belongs to movable crushing plants, but it is not as flexible as the mobile crushing plants. Compared with the cement foundation, it has many advantages.

With the development of modern mining industry, many customers would like to save the cost of investment and the time to build foundation. To satisfy these customers’ requirements, Double R&D team spend a lot of time to design the steel structure that fit for Double mining ore processing equipments, such as Double mining ore jaw crusher, Double mining ore cone crusher, Double mining ore impact crusher and Double vibrating feeders, vibrating screens, etc.

By using these steel structure mining processing plants, producers just need to build simple foundation, it do greatly save the time to transport materials to build cement foundations. Supposing building cement foundation will spend three months, using the steel structure mining ore processing plants will save at least one month. Meanwhile, good cement foundations do cost a lot of money, greatly increase the invest cost. So by using steel structure, investors can get return earlier.

Steel structure mining processing plants

On the other hand, many mining working sites environments are very bad; producers have to spend a lot of time to making working sites, they use excavators dig the mountain to make suitable platform. It does bring a lot of troubles to investors. But if producers adopt Double steel structure, these problems are easy to be solved.

Meanwhile, the steel structure can be disassembled. Once one mining deposits work out, producers can disassemble the plants and transport to another deposits easily. And they can run the new mining ore crushing plants quickly.

Comparing with Double mobile crusher plant, the flexible of steel structures have many limits. But it is really good choice for many customers. And it is cheaper than the mobile crushing plants.

Tanzania mining ore crushing industry

If you plan to invest in Tanzania mining ore crushing industry, if you are interested in the steel structure crushing plants, just be free to contact us.

Chat with our engineers on-line, you can get answers immediately; leave your email address or your phone number, we will get in touch with you within 24 hours. We would like to help you solve your problems with you together.

Crusher plant production and maintenance

The production line of crusher plant mainly consists of Vibrating Feeder, Jaw Crusher, Impact Crusher, Vibrating Screen, Belt Conveyor, Electric Control Box, etc. Double equipment design different production lines ranging 50 t/h to 500 t/h by combining different models of equipments also matching Cone Crusher, Bag Dust Catcher, etc. to satisfy different customers’ technological requirements.

Crusher plant maintenance

Convenient maintenance is so important in the quarrying crusher plant industry. Maintenance can be defined as working on something to keep it in a functioning and safe state and preserving it from failure or decline. Maintenance activities at quarries range from the maintenance of machines, equipment and vehicles to the keeping of roadways on site in good order, attending to such matters as providing edge protection and securing excavations.

It’s important to keep structural costs down, to design for ease of maintenance and operation, and to combine best practices with advances in fabrication and erection.

Best installation for crusher plant

In mining operations, the layout of crushing plants and ancillary equipment and structures is a crucial factor in meeting production requirements while keeping capital and operational costs to a minimum.Since the crushing plant’s structure and enclosure can represent the largest single cost element in a primary crushing plant, it is imperative to optimize these structural and construction costs to suit the life of the operation.

The fundamental goal for the design of a crushing plant is an installation that meets the required production requirements, operates at competitive cost, complies with today’s tough environmental regulations, and can be built at a reasonable price despite the rising costs of equipment, energy and construction labor.

Nickel beneficiation process

Nickel ore is primarily divided into sulfide copper-nickel mine and nickel oxide ore, whose ore dressing and processing techniques are entirely various.

beneficiation Procedure nickel oxide ore presently utilized crushing and screening processes to pre-remove bulk rocks with weak degree of weathering and low nickel ore.In quarry nickel the nickel within the nickel oxide ore frequently scattered in gangue minerals within the type of isomorphism and their grain sizes are extremely fine, nickel oxide ore can’t be enriched by mechanical dressing techniques. On the contrary, they should be only sent for direct smelting.

Nickel ore process

Nickel Ore Mining procedure in South Africa Nickel Ore Mining consists of preparation for mining and extracting of nickel extract. Consists of the activities of separating and sorting the nickel ore until it becomes guli (shots) within the type of ferro nickel and also the use of nickel which can’t be separated administratively from the mining of the nickle.

Within the both nickel ore beneficiation procedure of sulfide copper-nickel mine and nickel oxide ore, nickel ore crushing and grinding are needed. Cs series cone crusher is widely utilized for nickel ore crushing. You will find regular cone crusher and brief head cone crusher. Both them have been utilized as nickel ore crusher. Following crushed by cone crusher, the supplies should be grinded by rod mill and ball mill prior to becoming sent to flotation. Vibrating screen is utilized to separate various sizes of nickel ore. The screening mining equipment is also essential for nickel ore crushing and grinding mill..

Nickel extraction and purification

Main nickel is produced from two extremely various ores, lateritic and sulfidic. Most sulfide ores are processed by utilizing pyrometallurgical methods to create a matte for further refining.

Throughout nickel processing, nickel is extracted from its ores by conventional roasting and reduction processes. Nickel ore is stockpiled in the nickel plant. It’s firstly fed into a SAG mill feed bin, then convoyed to SAG mill for main grinding. The grinded supplies pass to regular cone crusher after which brief head cone crusher for further grinding. The crushed particles are passed to a vibrating screen for separation. Fine particles move to fine ore bin, whilst big particles return to cone crusher for regrinding. The fine nickel ores move from fine ore bin to rod mill after which to ball mill whilst adding xuanthate and lime.

The nickel grinding procedure yields usually a metal of higher than 75% purity, that is needed for nickel liberation. The nickel ore particles that are fine sufficient following grinding will pass to flotation procedure for magnetic separation and refining.

Copper Slag Crusher for sale

Our core business is to manufacture crushing equipment, grinding mills and screening plant. Whether we supply copper slag crusher equipments and design copper slag crushing plant according to the needs of customers. Our worldwide market consists of the following counries : South Africa, Nigeria, India, Russia, USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, Nubia, Peru, Indonesia, Brazil, Kenya,Papua New Guinea, Zambia, Oman, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Philippines, Guinea, Argentina etc.

Slag Crusher

Copper Ore

SBM, we hold expertise in providing slag ore crusher, that are well suited for crushing several types of mid-hard and above mid-hard ores and rocks. Noted for its reliable construction, high production activity, easy adjustment and less cost functioning, our slag crushers are in conformance with international standards.

The spring release system from the slag crusher are an overload protection system that allows tramp to feed the crushing chamber without causing any harm to the crusher. Our slag crusher makes plaster stone in addition to engine oil separated and assures reliable performance.

Boiler slag and bottom ash, steel slag crusher, copper slag crushing machine, lead slag grinding plants, coal slag, cone crusher utilized in slag processing, slag crusher producers, blast furnace slag crusher plant, cement slag plants, slag mill, slag crushing machinery, iron ore jaw crusher, ball mill for crushing slag, coke plant, copper slag grinder machine, large iron slag machine, primary slag crusher in Ghana, aggregate slag crushers etc.

Copper Slag Crushing Equipment

SBM is a high-technology enterprise of Shanghai city in China. It is a professional manufacturer of copper slag crushing mining equipment, located in beautiful Pudong New District, with factory area of more than 70,000 square meters. The company has formed a complete production-chain that takes copper slag crusher, rock crusher, concrete grinding mill as the main products and vibrating screen, vibrating feeder, etc. as supplementary products.

Silica Making Process In Mining Industry

Second and then oxygen, silicon is easily the most abundant take into account Earth’s crust. It is found in rocks, sand, clays and soils, along with either oxygen as silicon dioxide, or with oxygen as well as other elements as silicates. Silicon’s compounds will also be found in water, within the atmosphere, in several plants, as well as in certain animals.

Silica Making Process

If the input size of stones is smaller than 40mm, we recommend the Silica making flow designed with vsi5x series sand making machine, vibrating screen, sand washing machine, etc; otherwise, we’ve another solution made for you,This flow has vibrating feeder, jaw crusher, impact crusher (optional ), cone crusher, vsi5x series sand making machine,vibrating screen and sand automatic washer.

we just have to transport the satisfied size towards the sand making machine with a feed hopper, and When through the role of sand making machine, the last products- artificial sand is formed. After washing in sand washers, the pure sand meeting your requirement is produced.

Large silica stone( input dimensions are greater than 40mm) is transported to jaw crusher via vibrating feeder for primary crushing. Then a crushed materials are screened out into many different types with a vibrating screen.

The stone with satisfied dimension is transported to sand automatic washer, while the rest will probably be back to jaw crusher or cone crusher for breaking again. When from the role of sand making machine, the ultimate products – artificial sand is formed. After washing in sand washers, the pure sand meeting your requirement is produced.

Silica Sand Making Process Line

Sand making machine is utilized for silica sand manufacturing process, and power from various minerals. It is utilized in fine and medium size crushing of coarse material, rocks, stones, minerals, building aggregate concrete and other material. SBM Sand making machines are of high efficiency and high performance crusher, lower in maintenance and low operating cost.

Our high proficiency Sand making machines are made and manufactured to make fine quality sand rich in productivity output. The ultimate method is cubic with grounded edges.

Silica sand and aggregate can be used in preparing high quality concrete for building and construction purpose, so the sand particle has to be equiexed cuboidal and glommed edges.

Mineral processing equipment

SBM can be a mineral processing mining equipment manufacturers in China, Also we export mineral processing machine to India,Nigeria, Australia, Russia, Canada, Egypt, UZ, Nubia, Peru, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Mexico, Philippines, Zimbabwe, Oman, Argentina, Guinea, KZ, etc. we also design mineral processing plant to satisfy your mining business need!

In extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, also called mineral dressing or ore dressing, is the procedure of separating commercially valuable minerals using their ores. Mineral Processing Equipment include crushing equipment,grinding equipment,Gravity machine, flotation machine and Magnetic separation …

 

History of Mineral Processing

Ahead of the advent of heavy machinery the raw ore was split up using hammers wielded by hand, a procedure called “spalling”. In a short time, mechanical means put together to achieve this.

For example, stamp mills were chosen for Samarkand as early as 973. These were also being used in medieval Persia. By the 11th century, stamp mills were in widespread use through the entire medieval Islamic world, from Islamic Spain and North Africa in the western world to Central Asia inside the east. A later example was the Cornish stamps, that includes a series of iron hammers mounted in a vertical frame, raised by cams on the shaft of a waterwheel and falling about the ore under gravity.

The easiest method of separating ore from gangue contains the selecting the individual crystals of each and every. This can be a very tedious process, particularly when the person particles are small. Another comparatively simple method depends on the various minerals having different densities, causing them to collect in different places: metallic minerals (being heavier) will give up of suspension quicker than lighter ones, that is carried further by way of a stream of water. The process of panning and sifting for gold uses both these methods. Various devices known as ‘buddles’ were chosen to consider good thing about this property.

Mineral Process Mining Equipment

Ball mill is surely an efficient tool for grinding many materials into fine powder. The Ball mill is utilized to grind many kinds of mine as well as other materials, or select the mine. It is traditionally used in building material, chemical industry, etc. There are 2 means of grinding: the dry process as well as the wet process. It may be split into tabular type and flowing type in accordance with various forms of discharging material.

Dryer can be used for drying materials with humidity or granularity in the industries of mineral dressing, building material, metallurgy and chemical. Rotating dryer can be utilized for drying many kinds of materials along with convenient and reliable operation.

This machine is principally found in ore selecting, building materials, metallurgy and chemicals to dry the types of materials with certain moisture and size. The rotary drier includes a strong adaptability which could dry many different types of materials having a simple operation method and security trait, so it is traditionally used.

SBM can supply you stone crusher or rock crusher used widely in mineral processing plants such as jaw crusher, cone crusher, impact crusher, mobile crusher, hammer crusher, ore crusher, grinding mills, grinding mill, vertical mill, trapezium grinding mill, vibrating feeder, vibrating screen, sand washing machine etc. You can get crusher price according to SBM online service.

Magnetic Separator can separate the raw materials with various magnetic rigidities. The device works beneath the magnetic force and machine force. Magnetic Separators are designed to recover ferromagnetic materials.

The separators are available in designs and sizes to provide solutions for many applications. The center of every separator will be the magnetic system with its unique design, with a proven record of high efficiency. The Magnetic Separators can be found in cyclic design with process vessel diameters from 220 mm to three,050 mm.