Mt Magnet back in full swing - Ramelius
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Gold miner Ramelius Resources has resumed full production at its Mt Magnet gold operation, in Western Australia, after more than three months of production loss at the site.
The miner was forced to stop production at Mt Magnet in November last year after the failure of a ball mill drive motor. A range of remedial actions were implemented at the site to ramp-up production at the mine in the interim, including a temporary replacement motor for the ball mill.
Ramelius said on Tuesday the reconditioned electric motor that drives the ball mill at the Mt Magnet processing plant had now been reinstalled and was operating as expected. This has returned the processing plant to its full capacity.
Meanwhile, mining at the Western Queen South openpit has also continued uninterrupted since remediation of a wall slip late in 2013, and an estimated 27 000 t of ore grading 4 g/t was mined in January.
Mining would likely be completed at the end of this month with a further 40 000 t of material to be extracted and stockpiled. The high-grade ore would now contribute some 20% of the total tonnes processed at the Mt Magnet plant until June this year.
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