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Largo planning to Whittle down costs

Brazil vanadium miner Largo Resources will lean on what the company’s senior executives see as a unique 'enterprise' optimiser to help fine tune life-of-mine production and cost settings at the high-grade Maracás Menchen mine, which is being buffeted by low vanadium prices

Richard Roberts
Maracás vanadium mine optimisation expected to produce vital planning adjustments and value uplift

Maracás vanadium mine optimisation expected to produce vital planning adjustments and value uplift

New Largo CEO Mark Smith and well-regarded operations chief Mike Mutchler tells Mining Magazine the Whittle proprietary software and analytical service was what it was cracked up to be. In Mutchler’s long...

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