Minera Panama revises Metso mills order
- Publishing Date
- 17 Jun 2011 4:44pm GMT
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- Mining Magazine
Processing Crushing & Conveying
Minera Panama S.A. has revised its 2008 purchase of Metso grinding mills for the Cobre Panama project worth US$77.2million. Metso will now deliver two SAG mills, each 12.2m in diameter and four ball mills which are 7.9m in diameter.
This change is a consequence of a more detailed throughput modelling programme, conducted as part of the basic engineering phase and will provide a reasonable design margin over the nominal throughput of 150,000Mt/d.
The Cobre Panama project is located approximately 100km west of the Panama Canal. It is estimated that start-up will commence by the end of 2015. Once the new mine is fully operational, the concentrator will be capable of processing ore at a rate of 150,000Mt/d over the first ten years of operation.
The average annual metal production rate over the first 16 years has been estimated at 289,000t of copper, 108,000oz of gold, 1,544Moz of silver and 3,600t of molybdenum.
Delivery of the mills will be completed by the end of 2013.
This change is a consequence of a more detailed throughput modelling programme, conducted as part of the basic engineering phase and will provide a reasonable design margin over the nominal throughput of 150,000Mt/d.
The Cobre Panama project is located approximately 100km west of the Panama Canal. It is estimated that start-up will commence by the end of 2015. Once the new mine is fully operational, the concentrator will be capable of processing ore at a rate of 150,000Mt/d over the first ten years of operation.
The average annual metal production rate over the first 16 years has been estimated at 289,000t of copper, 108,000oz of gold, 1,544Moz of silver and 3,600t of molybdenum.
Delivery of the mills will be completed by the end of 2013.
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