|
|
Article: New Flotation Setup Provides Optimal Recovery for Macraes Gold
- Article from:
- Engineering and Mining Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Mining Media, Inc. Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
OceanaGold Corp., operator of the Macraes gold mine in New Zealand, announced in mid-December 2007 that it had successfully commissioned three new Outotec TankCell 300 flotation cells at the Macraes mill. Each TankCell 300 has a capacity of more than 300 m^sup 3^, making it the world's largest commercially operating flotation cell. The new installation, according to the company, has enabled a significant increase in throughput combined with lower maintenance and operating costs.
Here Peter Bourke, Outotec's global technology manager-flotation process and Alan Berzins, project manager-minerals processing, discuss the installation.
Macraes gold was a two train plant. Each train consisted of ...