Premier African Minerals Limited, the AIM-traded, multi-commodity resource and development Company focused on Southern and Western Africa, is pleased to announce that the commissioning of the RHA mine is progressing well and that the Company anticipates its first shipment of wolframite concentrate in the beginning of May.
George Roach, Chairman and CEO commented in a press release:
“I am pleased to report that the XRT sorter is exceeding our expectations and has proved capable of recovering up to 100 percent of mineralisation contained in the run of mine (ROM) feed to the sorter, on a continuous basis and in a mass pull of circa 5 percent on average. General refinement of the sorter operation and optimisation of the gravity recovery circuit and other elements of the crushing circuits continue with constant steady improvements.”
Breakeven production of wolframite occurs at 3,000 mtu per month and the plant has already achieved and exceeded this production level but not yet on a sustained basis. Ongoing optimisation, refinement and mining development is expected to result in continuous sustained operation at profitable levels in the near future.
- Shipments of concentrates produced from the upgraded plant will commence in the beginning of this month, George Roach said.
Drilling continues at the Zulu lithium and tantalum project with the direct objective of increasing our interim maiden resource that is expected to cover a limited length of the so far known 3.5 kilometre strike length. Drilling has been interrupted from time to time with ongoing and unseasonal heavy rains but this is now expected to end as winter approaches for this region.
