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Pilgangoora starts ore commissioning

15th May 2018

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

     

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Pilgangoora lithium project, in Western Australia, is set to deliver its first concentrate by the end of June, with ASX-listed Pilbara Minerals reporting that ore commissioning has started at the crushing facilities.

In parallel with the start of load commissioning of the crusher, construction of the overall processing plant for Pilgangoora is progressing towards completion with subsets of the plant’s circuits being completed daily, in preparation for the start of the main concentrator commissioning in the coming weeks.

The company told shareholders on Tuesday that consistent with its plans to deliver direct shipping ore (DSO), the Pilgangoora Monster pit and associated infrastructure was now fully established at site, and mine gate ore deliveries have started to fellow-listed Atlas Iron during late April.

A steady flow of DSO ore is now leaving site targeting Atlas’ first ore shipments in the first half of June, Pilbara said.

Under the terms of the agreement, Pilbara will deliver a minimum of one-million tonnes of unprocessed run-of-mine lithium/tantalum material to Atlas on a mine gate sale basis, based on a delivery schedule which is designed to allow Atlas to ship 100 000 t/m of DSO to offtake customers.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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