The first carbon-in-pulp (CIP) gold pour has been completed at the newly refurbished Davyhurst processing plant, located approximately 120 kilometres north west of Kalgoorlie, within the Davyhurst Mining Hub.
Eastern Goldfields Limited, an ASX-listed gold exploration company and owner of the Davyhurst Gold Project, announced that the first CIP gold pour was recently delivered to the Perth Mint. Further, the company plans to pour and deliver gold to the Mint on a weekly schedule, incrementally increasing cash flow generated from the project.
According to the news release, approximately 25,000t @ 1g/t has been treated through the processing plant, as budgeted, during early commissioning. The project resulted to the growing plant throughput rate and Carbon loadings in CIP circuit, and optimisation of gravity, leach and CIP circuits.
“This is a significant occasion in the Company’s history, and we greatly appreciate the dedication and persistence of our employees and contractors that have made this possible,” said Michael Fotios, Eastern Goldfields Chairman. “We look forward to building on this achievement as we ramp-up throughput of higher grade feedstock toward nameplate capacity and begin generating material cash flow from the Davyhurst Project.”
The Eastern Goldfields’ operational team intends to maintain the plant at the current rate of 80t/hr, to commence the ramp-up of the throughput rate over the coming weeks, and to increase the plant feed grade via a shift to higher grade ore stockpile blends.
