Montage Gold has awarded an order to Metso for the supply of key minerals processing tools, together with its HRC™ high-pressure grinding roll expertise, for the corporate’s Koné gold mission in Côte d’Ivoire.
The worth of the order is roughly EUR 50 million ($52 million).
Metso’s supply contains a big dual-pinion Premier™ grinding mill with put in energy of twenty-two MW and an HRC™ 2400e high-pressure grinding roll (HPGR), which, Metso says, combines energy-efficiency and excessive throughput whereas lowering operational prices.
The ball mill will likely be outfitted with Metso’s metallic mill lining and Polymer Hydrostatic Shoe Bearing system, whereas the HRC will likely be fitted with flanged roll expertise enabled by Metso’s superior mechanical skew management system.
For the crushing circuit, Metso’s supply consists of a Superior™ MKIII 54-75 major gyratory crusher and Nordberg® MP1250 cone crushers. As well as, Metso will ship high-rate thickeners with Reactorwell™ feed system. The Premier ball mill, HRCe HPGR and high-rate thickeners with Reactorwell feed system are a part of the Metso Plus providing.
Peder Olsen, President & Chief Improvement Officer at Montage Gold, stated: “We’re happy to have chosen Metso for our HPGR set up after an intensive due diligence course of, which included detailed trade-off research and website visits to guage the efficiency of Metso’s HPGR at a mine website, demonstrating excessive and dependable throughput. It was additionally a pleasure to go to their manufacturing unit and meet the devoted workers who’re dedicated to delivering our set up on time and inside price range. We stay up for a robust partnership with Metso, pushed by their superior expertise, and their robust dedication to service and ongoing help.”
Kai Rönnberg, Vice President, Minerals, Asia-Pacific at Metso, stated: “Provided that Montage Gold’s Koné mission ranks as one of many highest high quality gold tasks in Africa as a result of its sizeable low-cost manufacturing and lengthy mine life, we’re very happy to have been chosen because the associate for the supply of the important thing processing tools for this mission. Our goal is to optimise the method for sustainable, excessive throughput with dependable, energy-efficient, and secure expertise.”
First gold pour is focused for the June quarter of 2027, based mostly on a 27-month building interval for the method plant. Early works are nicely underway and main building works, in addition to water storage and dam building, are as a result of start early within the March quarter.
The plant nominal throughput as per the latest research is 11 Mt/y, based mostly on a major crushing, secondary crushing and HPGR, milling and carbon-in-leach (CIL) availability of 75%, 88% and 91%, respectively.
