I don't understand why some investors find the Deflector processing route so difficult to get their head around. It's a very simple process. .
1st, gravity gold is extracted at the front end. Cheap and simple, the DFS indicated up to 50% recovery - smeltered, gold d'ore (~10% silver) bars to the mint..
2nd, floatation, just like you would for a copper or nickel project. Produces a clean gold-copper-silver concentrate that gets sold to a smelter. Floatation has been around since forever, its not new technology.
I believe the pyrite tails get treated by a small CIL circuit for something like 20k oz at the end of mine life.
If you want to see a process flow sheet for Deflector, see some of the announcements from MYG, its no big secret, and it will compare to most other floatation circuits.
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