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Vale has began to hire....for the leach plant....BVIG/KATG low grade copper....just may have a place to go....The Clock is ticking.....


Rare earths linked to low grade copper deposits...Vale Inco and OD all in one chart and one article....hydromet.....see chart on page 3


Voisey Bay Vale-Inco Ni/Co/Cu Bateman Settler On-going
Tres Valles Vale Cu (20,000t/y) Bateman Settler 2010

The technology is increasingly
being used by the minerals
industry to separate, purify and
concentrate metals such as
nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc,
uranium and rare earths.

www.infomine.com/publications/docs/InternationalMining/Chadwick2011aa.pdf

check this out vales voisey bay ((( equipment ))))..for the processing of NI/CO/CU ((( IS THE SAME WQUIPMENT )) for processing Cu ....ie COPPER at it's TRES VALLES PLANT.......NO EQUIPMENT CHANGE NEEDED.....BATEMAN SETTER FOR BOTH
http://www.infomine.com/publications/docs/InternationalMining/Chadwick2011aa.pdf SEE THE CHART ON PAGE 3
THE REPORT ALSO SAYS THAT COPPER DEPOSITS AS LOW AS .04 % COPPER WERE PROCESSED PROFITABLY.....IE MUCHLOWER COSTS
AKA....LOW GRADE LARGE TONNAGE


Project Client Commodity Equipment type Year
Voisey Bay Vale-Inco Ni/Co/Cu Bateman Settler On-going

The technology is increasingly
being used by the minerals
industry to separate, purify and
concentrate metals such as
nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc,
uranium and rare earths.
John Chadwick looks at some
of the latest developments

The recruitment of some of the management team for the operations workforce is currently underway. The recruitment efforts to fill the remainder of the approximately 475 required positions within the Refinery, Leach Plant, Site Services, Port and support functions will begin in 2012 and continue into 2013. Employment opportunities related the operations phase of the processing plant will be posted on the Vale Limited Careers page.


www.vbnc.com/CurrentOpportunities.asp

Mark E. Schlesinger, Matthew J. King, Kathryn C. Sole - 2011 - Science - 472 pages
Commissioning UHC: a Vale copper refinery based on CESL technology. ... Microbial succession during a heap bioleaching cycle of low grade copper sulfides: ... Construction and start-up of the Freeport-McMoRan concentrate leach plant at ... www.saimm.co.za/Conferences/Hydro2009/Paul.pptFile Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML

Low-grade, copper mineral sulphide (whole) ore; Mesophiles, moderate and extreme ... Near Carajás, Brazil where Vale operates Sossego copper mine ... plant: medium temperature pressure leaching of copper concentrate with direct ... With such a diversity of copper projects – some with conventional copper mineralogy (chalcopyrite) and some
with a predominance of secondary copper sulphides – Vale has included hydrometallurgy as one of the pillars for its
strategy of building its copper business.

www.cesl.com/DocumentViewer.aspx?elementId=152855...tc

In 2Q11 we bought copper ore from small mines
equivalent to 4,200 t of copper metal, 40% less
than the amount acquired in 1Q11 due to the issues
with the furnace at the Sudbury operations.
Operations at Tres Valles, in the Coquimbo region
of Chile, continued to ramp-up producing 2,200 t
of copper cathodes in 2Q11. Tres Valles has an
annual capacity of 18,500 t of copper cath


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