Hi Aneeso, no, I was referring to a concentrating facility to decrease unprocessed ore to LCE. I generated some figures for a 1000 km trip using tonne payload units, the companies I've worked for are resource and heavy infrastructure which involves calculating a lot of heavy haul work. I ran the calculations on transporting ore from BGSs ground to port using cycling that would satisfy 2mtpa movement; it basically calculate loading times, volume, speed and a couple of other factors and provides a cab to tail cycling cost, anything less than 100 tonne movement was just completely blowing price; I think my Australian cost figure was about $265 per tonne and they needed to have a fleet of about 135 trucks cycling to achieve that; not sure if they even run that size of rig over there; we only run them up in the NT and WA and we run them on good roads.
Ore to concentrate reduces the tonnage, but load times into containers is a lot slower and you can only fill the containers by about 0.80 with a raw flow able product like sand or in this case concentrate, from memory the limit held within a 40 foot if 26 tonne, they can't fill it 100%. Will they bag the concentrate ?
Just had a look on the infrastructure Africa site..the maximum permissible combined mass is 56 tonne i.e. Total truck and load; trucking costs are also greatly impacted by the poor road conditions which reduces efficiency and piles on the service / parts cost.
