Novo's Ann Tonight, page-143

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This expanded facility complements our global network of 12 metallurgical facilities, further cementing SGS’s position as the trusted source for bankable expertise in metallurgical testing. SGS offers a wide range of bankable services to the minerals sector including geochemical analysis, resource calculation, mineralogy, metallurgy, advanced systems, water treatment and trade services. For further information please visit SGS Mining.


SGS is pleased to announce the completion of a major, multi-million dollar expansion of our mineral processing testwork capabilities in Australia. Existing facilities have been significantly upgraded and a new mineral processing laboratory complex is now operational adjacent to our current location in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. SGS is the pre-eminent provider of commercial hydrometallurgical testing in Australia.
This expansion will allow SGS to leverage the strong base of metallurgical expertise already in place in our Perth facility and will enable us to provide the same high quality services for mineral processing projects in areas such as comminution, flotation, magnetic & gravity separation, filtration, thickening and iron ore characterisation.
The expansion involved the installation of additional equipment at our existing location as well as the development of a new laboratory and office complex incorporating:

• A continuous three stage crushing plant with a capacity of approx. 3 tonnes per hour.
• A 20 m fully instrumented iron ore drop-tower.
• A continuous pilot comminution and flotation plant including conventional, flash and column flotation.
• Pilot hi-rate and paste thickening.
• Pilot filtration equipment.
• Pilot wet magnetic separation equipment (LIMS, REMS, WHIMS and Slon).
• Modern spiral and hydrocyclone testing rigs plus ancillary gravity concentration equipment.
• Advanced Mineralogy Facility (QEMSCAN and optical microscopy).
• Enhanced and streamlined in-house analytical laboratory.
• A state-of-the-art video conferencing suite for remote project meetings, enabling unprecedented coordination between SGS and client teams.
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  Thiosulphate Leaching
  
  Thiosulphate leaching provides a less toxic processing alternative to cyanidation in the recovery of gold from ore. Our laboratory and industry experts have designed and developed the technique into a viable cyanide alternative for some gold-bearing ores. SGS can help ensure regulatory compliance and optimised gold recovery from this process.
• Looks definately like NOVO want to be in the Pilbara for the next 50 years ..
• Why ? We all are aware could just go in and  dig it up ..
• This thorough  tests on Bulk samples..
• SGS makes there process Bankable .
• DL says in interview  & QH says in interview  we have the money to run it up to a certain stage
• But then we need the Banks capex
• There was talk by QH to have facilities  Plants /Mills  over the Pilbara ;you could see when he mentioned that it was way off in his future thoughts ..
• At the moment next in time frames now till say september? Yes there would be area's completed before then;  prove it up in immediate  area's .
• What would be more efficent cost and eviroment friendly  having Mills all over the place or Train lines stratigically placed  to loop to Mills   .Trucks are just to hard on roads .