take over of mlx collingwood tin

AS Icon is going to relocate the plant the last parragraph is worth a read.

Please find attached a link to the MLX Collingwood tin.
http://metalsx.com.au/tin/collingwood/

Tin › Collingwood
The Collingwood Tin Project is 100% owned by Metals X Limited and operated through its wholly owned subsidiary Bluestone Nominees Pty Ltd. The Collingwood Tin Project is located in Far North Queensland approximately 30km south of Cooktown. The operation is the largest tin producer in Australia producing at a rate of around 5,700 tonnes of tin concentrate a year at a grade of 60% Sn. The operation is an underground hard rock tin mine with a three stage crusher and 45 tonne per hour mill and concentrator on the surface. Collingwood tin concentrate product is shipped to Malaysia for refining, smelting and sold on the Kuala Lumpur metal exchange. The operation employs a total of 87 people and contributes in excess of $10 million to the local Cooktown economy.



Collingwood Project Location

The Collingwood mineralisation is greisen style within granites. The mineralisation occurs as a series of close spaced sub parallel siliceous-sheeted greisen lodes that trend north-south and dip steeply east. Tin occurs within the lodes as granular, sub-spherical grains of cassiterite between 0.5mm and 2mm in diameter. Reserves estimates as of 30 June 2006 total 953,900 tonnes at 1.19% Sn with a larger resource base of 1,280,900t at 1.27% Sn.

The Collingwood process plant consists of a 150 tph three stage crushing plant which includes a 42” x 30” Jaw crusher and two Symons 4 ¼” cone crushers. The concentrator has a nominal capacity of 45tph and consists of a ball mill, a coarse circuit and a fines scavenging circuit. Over 80% of the tin is recovered from the coarse circuit gravity plant consisting of spirals and shaking tables. The fines circuit consists of a Falcon Concentrator, Kelsey Jig and shaking tables.



The Collingwood ore treatment process uses water only in a generally closed circuit system.

The Collingwood Tin project is located in an area with significant flora & fauna biodiversity, rainforest, a significant river system, and areas of Aboriginal and European heritage. The site operates under a detailed environmental management plan and strict operational policies with procedures to ensure the integrity of the environment associated with our operations is managed.