FDL flinders diamonds limited

should we be disappointed

  1. RAG
    123 Posts.
    There seems to be a bit of confusion about the results of the sampling. The extract below is from the announcement and clearly states that anything over 10mm has been rejected because of a limitation with the plant - it cant handle anything larger than 10mm.

    That reject pile may - which equates to approx 8 tonnes of material - (I wish) contain 100s of diamonds larger than 10mm.

    The relevant part of the ann is below.

    The DMS plant consists of a feed hopper
    fitted with a 50 mm grizzly to remove the
    oversize material prior to delivery to a
    scrubbing trommel fitted with a minimum
    of 0.5 mm and a maximum of 10 mm
    screens. In the scrubbing unit the sample
    is disaggregated and de-slimed, with the
    fine clay and sand fractions being removed
    and piped to the tailings pond and the plus
    10 mm material rejected to the oversize
    stockpile. Essentially the plant from this
    point forward does not have the capacity to
    treat any material larger than 10 mm.
    From the scrubbing trommel the plus 0.5
    mm and minus 10 mm fraction is pumped
    to a dewatering screen after which it is
    introduced to the dense media slurry that
    via a cyclone enables the separation of
    the material into heavy and light mineral
    fractions. Whereas the light fraction is
    discarded by the cyclone the heavy fraction,
    consisting of a range of minerals including
    any diamonds that may be present, is
    recovered as a Heavy Mineral Concentrate
    (HMC) that is henceforth treated by Xray,
    heavy liquid and final hand sorting
    processes to recover the diamonds. These
    final stages of the processing, and in
    particular the hand sorting process, were
    undertaken by specialist laboratories and
    personnel in Perth.
    Of the 100.05 tonnes of kimberlite
    processed approximately 8% was rejected
    at the grizzly as being too large for
    processing. Of the remaining material 5%
    was rejected at the scrubber and 10%
    by the cyclone (light mineral fraction).
    The balance of the material consisted of
    material finer than 0.5 mm (sent to the
    tailings pond) and 101 kilograms (0.11%) of
    heavy mineral concentrate.
 
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