PRODUCTION COMMENCES AT KANMANTOO
Hillgrove Resources Limited (ASX:HGO) is pleased to advise that first ore has now been delivered to the process plant at the Company’s Kanmantoo Copper Mine project, and processing through the plant has commenced. The achievement of this milestone changes the company from ‘developer’ to ‘producer’ status.
The first ore throughput will be from stockpiled, crushed, relatively low grade ore, to test the plant and to optimise performance. It is expected that as the concentrate thickener fills, first concentrate production will be in several days. Once the plant has been optimised, ore feed will move to higher grade material (0.7- 0.9% Cu), of which about 300,000 tonnes is now stock-piled on the Run-of-Mine (ROM) pad, immediately adjacent to the crushing facility. It is expected that the transition to higher grade feed will occur within days rather than weeks.
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