Booysendal South tailings retreatment project, South Africa
Name of the Project
Booysendal South tailings retreatment project.
Location
The Booysendal mining right straddles South Africa’s Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces.
Client
Northam Platinum.
Project Description
The project involves hydromining and the reprocessing of the Booysendal South tailings storage facility (TSF) to extract 1.3-million tonnes of chrome product from 8.7-million tonnes of tailings, from which platinum-group metals (PGMs) will also be extracted.
The tailings have a mineral content of about 18% chrome and 0.8 g to 0.65 g of PGMs per tonne.
The project will be undertaken in two phases – chrome will be extracted first and tailings returned to the storage facility before being processed for a second time to extract PGMs.
Apart from the compelling economics of this project, a key objective is to ensure that the concentrator is fully commissioned and optimised ahead of the run-of-mine feed from the Booysendal South mining project.
Potential Job Creation
Not stated.
Net Present Value/Internal Rate of Return
Not stated.
Value
R100-million.
Duration
Hydromining and TSF reprocessing were scheduled to begin in September and continue to December 19, after which run-of-mine material from the mine will begin to arise in substantial quantity and displace the tailings.
Latest Developments
None stated.
Key Contracts and Suppliers
None stated.
On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.
Contact Details for Project Information
Northam Platinum, tel +27 11 759 6000 or fax +27 11 325 4795.
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