RE: Not bad news13 Sep 2018 11:46
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For more than twenty years Pokrovsky mine has worked, and no matter how rich it was a gold-bearing ore, by now its reserves have been exhausted. Therefore, the construction of the Pokrovsky Autoclave-Hydrometallurgical Combine (PAGC) is in full swing on its territory. The unique project of the company "Petropavlovsk" will bring modern technologies for extracting gold from resistant ores. And the Pokrovsky mine factory will be just a part of this large complex.
At the construction site last week visited the head of the district NI. Mamutin and the heads of structural subdivisions of the district administration. Excursion on the main objects of the autoclave complex for them was conducted by Yu.P. Marchenko, Deputy General Director of Petropavlovsk, and A.V. Afanasyev, the head of the PGAK.
Pokrovsky autoclave will become the second in the country and the 24th in the world enterprise for extracting stubborn gold. This is an advanced technology, all equipment is world-class, it was supplied by companies from two dozen countries: Finland, Australia, USA, France, Germany and others. The construction of the complex employs almost 400 employees of contract organizations and employees of the Petropavlovsk group. Yu.P. Marchenko, communicating with representatives of local authorities, said that the level of automation and complexity of the workflow at PAGC will be significantly higher than any other production of Petropavlovsk. And at the same time the enterprise is safe from the ecological point of view: there will be no harmful waste and pollution of the environment. The process is simulated in an autoclave, which in nature takes many millions of years: when gold, encased in iron sulphides, under the influence of moisture, sun and heat becomes a non-stop material. In an autoclave this process will take only 30 minutes.
- Today, - says the head of PAGK A.V. Afanasyev, - on the deposits of Petropavlovsk, including Pokrovsky mine, the reserves of so-called light gold, which is extracted using traditional technology, are almost exhausted. The main reserves are the stubborn ores. Concentrate on PGK will be delivered from the Malomyr mine, which is 700 km from Tygda. Transportation it will be carried out in special plastic bags first by road to the station February, then in wagons by rail to Tyhdy, then again by road to the autoclave. Begin to receive concentrate in September. The following year, the Pioneer Mine, which is located just 30 kilometers from Pokrovka, will also produce concentrate.
- Combine, - says A.V. Afanasiev, - will consist of three large sections: hydrometallurgical department, separation of autoclave leaching and filtration, oxygen station. The complex already has four autoclaves. The estimated capacity of the enterprise is processing of 500 thousand tons of concentrate per year.
Further, Aleksey Valerevich said that the plant will have a high level of automation, all the technol
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