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From Mining Weekly

Project Enhancements
The Lumwana process plant is conservatively rated at 20-million tons a year ore throughput, reports Equinox.
The company states that its engineers forecast a potential increase in throughput of 20% to about 24-million tons a year, increasing copper output to above 200 000 t/y, by improving efficiency and debottlenecking the plant, at limited additional capi-tal cost.

Given the very large resource and long mine life at Lumwana, there is an opportunity to further expand throughput to about 35-million tons a year, increasing copper production to about 300 000 t/y.

Such further expansion will require significant additional capital cost and be subject to the completion of a feasibility study, reports the company.

A study into improving the transport logistics at Lumwana has started and includes the potential to build a concentrate pipeline to the Copperbelt.

Transporting the concentrate as a slurry could significantly reduce trucking costs for the concentrate, reports Equinox.