Gold Processing Plant Design, Construction & Optimization

Every ore body possesses distinct mineralogy, hardness (Bond Work Index), and leach kinetics. Generic or off-the-shelf plant flowsheets result in sub-optimal gold recovery, excessive reagent wastage, and frequent mechanical bottlenecks.

Improper agitator selection, poor interstage screen maintenance, and carbon attrition from violent shear cause severe gold loss into tailings and excessive activated carbon consumption.

Ores containing naturally occurring organic carbon or reactive clays suffer from severe preg-robbing if leaching occurs prior to carbon contact, irreversibly locking dissolved gold in tailings.

Operating plants frequently suffer from unexplained gold leakage in tailings (>0.4 g/t Au), carbon fouling/passivation, chronic slurry pump blowouts, and throughput limitations below nameplate capacity.

Unsupervised plant startups frequently lead to severe equipment misalignment, pump cavitation, slurry pipe blockages, cyanide leaks, motor burnouts, and costly operational delays during initial ramp-up.

Mine owners, investors, and boards face high financial stakes and require unbiased, experienced metallurgical advice prior to committing major capital to plant acquisitions or expansions.

Commencing mining operations and plant construction without rigorous metallurgical testwork, mass balancing, and financial modeling leads to severe cost overruns, wrong flowsheet selection, and premature project failure.