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First Quantum restarts Ravensthorpe

22nd July 2015

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Canada-based First Quantum Minerals has started recommissioning work at the Ravensthorpe nickel mine, in Western Australia.

The company said on Wednesday that the atmospheric leach circuit at the mine had been restarted earlier this month, after being shut down in December last year following a tank failure.

Operations at the 38 000 t/y nickel plant were suspended following an acid spill.

First Quantum said steady-state production would likely be achieved by the end of July, at which point the circuit should operate at 50% of production capacity, with a throughput of 80 t/h.

It is planned that this capacity would continue for the next six months while out-of-service leach tanks were progressively refurbished.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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