RE: Looking Good4 Jun 2026 22:10
I contacted the company a while ago to clarify the numbers because the previously reported ~65% copper recovery means we should expect to see:
30,000 tpm (throughput) * 1.6 % (grade) * 65 % (recovery) = ~320 tpm copper production or ~960 tonnes / quarter.
In Q2 and Q3 we saw copper production of a little less than 600 tonnes / quarter so I wanted to understand why the shortfall? It was explained to me that the 'slimes' portion of the processed RoM is what will go through the new centrifuge / dewatering circuit and that is what will add the additional ~140 tpm. That would bring the total up to approximately the 960 tonnes / quarter that I was expecting. So that would be ~3,840 tonnes / year of copper production at 30,000 tpm throughput. That could increase to about 4,0000 tonnes / year due to the changes that have been implemented to (hopefully) gain 5% extra production.
If they bring the front-end into production then throughput could increase to 40,000 tpm or more and we might expect closer to 5,000-5,500 tonnes / year.
As a side note, the 'slimes' portion of the chrome processing circuit was what contained the PGM concentrate. We are looking at a very similar process but with chrome they were pushing a lot more material through per month due to the additional modules that were constructed.