Directly from the Q4 RNS22 Feb 2021 21:40
Dreamy
These are the facts from the Q4 RNS published in January 2021 relating to the situation as it actually and factually is now, people can choose to be negative if they want but they can’t argue with any factual information that the company is not improving production :-
Straight from the Q4 RNS :-
During the three month period ending 31 December 2020, the Company continued to make plant improvements resulting in major production increases across the board. These improvements continue apace and should be completed in early February 2021.
During the quarter, the plant continued to work a four day week, moving to a five day working week in early January 2021, with a target to move to a seven day working week with effect from April 2021.
Currently each working day consists of three, eight hour shifts and once the plant moves to a seven day working week, it will revert back to two 12 hour shifts.
The Company looks forward to once again operating the La Parrilla mine on a true 24 / 7 basis, which is widely accepted within the mining community as "best practice".
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In Q4, the plant improvement programme included the following:
· Jigs: replaced screen panels and quaternary mill rolls with materials more resistant to abrasion and modifications to jigging speed to improve recovery.
· Spirals: replaced polyethylene pipes with others more resistant to abrasion, modifications made to reagent feed to float arsenopyrite on shaking tables, and preparations for the recommissioning of the rod mill.
· FME (Flotation, Magnetic and Electrostatic): integrated system for wet reprocessing of off-spec concentrates, improvements to flotation density, installation of a new magnetic separator, modifications to some pumping points to produce a higher capacity.
Benefits of the plant improvements:
Greater plant availability with better recoveries and improving maintenance has led to:
· Increasing process stability
· Greater run times
· Less impurities going into final concentrate
· Increased production
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Recoveries for the quarter were impacted by the performance of the jigs which slowed the recovery rates for both October and November. Whilst this was disappointing, especially after such a strong September, the improvement programme identified the issues which were resolved alongside other key plant improvements and resulted in December being the best ever month for concentrator recovery at 50% and WO3 concentrate at 41.5%
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So, if anyone can post any factual reason why production is not going to be improving please do so, I would be very interested to read any facts.