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01/05/19
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Originally posted by HairyRichard:
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Can anyone explain to me where the 'Recoveries' come in? We mind the tailing's slush with a grade of 2.92%, does that 1.39Mt of slush then go into the 'recoveries' section at ~50%? I don't think that's it I just can't seem to get 37,500 from 1,390,000 using the figures (2.92% mined, grade of 48.3% and recoveries of 50%) given to me no matter what order I put them into an equation. I have to be missing something and I think it's the fundamental understanding of how something like this works!
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Just using those quoted figures some math: 1390000 x 0.0292 x 0.5 / 0.483 = 42,100 (close to 37,500) tonnes of tails mined at 2.92% zinc sent to the processing plant from which 42,000 or 37,500 tonnes of material at 48.2% grade was recovered. 1390000 x 2.92% = 40,588t contained zinc in mined tails 37500 x 48.3% = 18,113 contained zinc in concentrate 18,113 / 40,588 = 45% recovery not 50% so appears these numbers include inaccuracies and rounding errors