Quote Originally Posted by soulman View Post
JB, don't forget their fully owned processing plant. Those were worth a lot when gold were reaching $2,000 an ounce.
Yes too right ..two very costly to replace plants

-The Checker Processing Plant is located at the Hill Fifty mine at Mt Magnet in Western Australia approximately 650km North of Perth.

Project History
The Checker Process Plant is an existing gold plant located at the town of Mount Magnet in Western Australia. The operation is owned by Ramelius Resources Ltd after purchase from Harmony Gold NL in July 2010. The Checker Processing Plant was previously operated by Mt Magnet Gold NL until it was decommissioned in December 2008.

Scope of work
GR Engineering was appointed by Ramelius Resources Ltd to project manage, design, procure and construct the Mt Magnet Gold Project, incorporating the Checker Processing Plant facilities refurbishment and recommissioning.

The refurbished and modified Checker Processing Plant will be capable of an annualised processing rate of 1.7Mtpa, upgradable to 2.4Mtpa.

The plant receives ore delivered to the ROM pad from various open pit ore sources. Processing includes primary crushing, conveying, coarse ore storage, primary and secondary milling, gravity gold circuit consisting of a gravity concentrator and an intensive cyanidation circuit. The balance of gold recovery is obtained from a seven tank CIL circuit, four tonne pressure Zadra elution circuit and electrowinning systems.

GR Engineering commenced the EPC design, procure, construction and refurbishment of the processing plant facilities in April 2011 and the project was completed in November 2011.




Burbanks Treatment Plant

The Burbanks Treatment Plant is located in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia, 8 km south of the town of Coolgardie and 46 km west of Kalgoorlie. The plant was purchased by Ramelius in November 2006 and refurbished. The mill is a conventional CIL circuit, with crusher, ball mill, gravity circuit and leach tanks. The mill has a capacity to treat up to 180,000 tonnes of material per annum.

Burbanks has been instrumental in processing of ore from the Company’s Wattle Dam and Coogee gold mines and has also undertaken a number of toll milling parcels.