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Garrison Appoints Consep International Ltd. to Provide a Turnkey Gold Plant
4/13/2010 5:07:42 PM - Market Wire
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Apr 13, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) --
Garrison International Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: GAU) ("Garrison") is pleased to announce that it has appointed Consep International Ltd. ("Consep") to establish a turnkey gold plant at Garrison's Tovshiir gold project in South Eastern Mongolia.
Consep is a world leader in the production of high-tech gold plants. The Consep edge revolves around producing a concentrate from ore that undergoes intensive cyanide leaching in a closed circuit system. As compared to most other approaches and technologies, Consep's patented 20 tonne per day closed cyanide-electrowin circuit uses a small quantity of chemicals.
Test work conducted to date using the Consep gravity - leach system on test ore from the Tovshiir project has produced overall gold recovery of 86%. Garrison's management is optimistic that similar recovery rates will be achieved when full-scale production commences at Tovshiir. Recoveries using the Consep system often reach as high as 95% at other similar operations, and Consep facilities are fully automated.
Procuring state-of-the-art, leading edge technology in clean gold processing equipment from Consep will enable Garrison to maintain greater control over all aspects of production, including by helping to minimize security risks during production, and reducing the potential risks to wildlife, livestock, local inhabitants and the surrounding environment. In addition, by employing such technology Garrison should be able to minimize cost fluctuations.
Using the Consep system, gold can be recovered from ore through a much cleaner system than would be the case with a conventional Carbon in Pulp Cyanide Plant. Since the Consep system does not use a leach pond and does not expose cyanide to the open environment, the risk of environmental contamination and the exposure of local inhabitants and livestock to hazardous substances is significantly reduced.
Consep is contracted to provide an automated screening plant, and an Acacia Intensive Leach Unit of 20 tonne per day capacity that has associated electrowin, solution recharge and detoxification units. All of these units are automated, they will be monitored from the plant's main control room and they will require only one skilled person to operate the process, thereby helping to control costs.
Management of Garrison anticipates that the Consep plant should arrive for installation at the Tovshiir site during the 3rd quarter of Garrison's 2010 financial year.
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