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Kwale commissioning advances - Base

8th October 2013

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Mineral sands developer Base Resources has started ore processing at its wet concentrator at the Kwale project, in Kenya.

The miner said that first ore from the central dune had been taken through the dozer trap mining unit and wet concentrator, two weeks after water commissioning and control logic testing.

Over the coming weeks, mining and processing rates would be ramped up and stockpiles would be built up ahead of the commissioning of the mineral separation plant (MSP).

Base told shareholders that construction of the MSP was now at its final stages, with the commissioning of the ilmenite and rutile circuits, and the start of concentrator processing expected in November. This would be followed by the zircon circuit in December.

The bulk shipments of finished product would start in January.

The Kwale project would produce 4.7-million tons of final product over a 13-year life-of-mine.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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