Mineros S.A.

Llanuras Dredge Project

19/11/2019

Process Description

Gekko Systems Pty Ltd

CE3187-PE-100-0001

1. DOCUMENT HISTORY

Author: Mxolisi Ntombela Effective Date: 19/11/2019

Revision Number: Approval Date: Approved By: Revision Notes:

00 Mxolisi Ntombela Initial Draft

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CONTENTS

1. Document History ..................................................................................................................................................... 1

List of Tables ................................................................................................................................................................... 2

List of Figures .................................................................................................................................................................. 2

2. Processing Plant ....................................................................................................................................................... 3

2.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 3

3. PROCESS DESCRIPTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4

3.1. Area 20: Feed Preparation and Dewatering ..................................................................................................... 4

3.2. Area 30: Rougher and Scavenger Gravity ....................................................................................................... 5

3.3. Area 32: Cleaner and Recleaner Gravity ........................................................................................................ 6

3.4. Area 34: Final Recovery ................................................................................................................................. 6

3.5. Area 70: Gold Room Final Recovery .............................................................................................................. 7

3.6. Area 90: Water and Air Services ..................................................................................................................... 8

LIST OF T ABLES

Table 1: Reference drawings for Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams per Area. ............................................................. 3

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Simplified Block Flow Diagram of the process plant. .......................................................................................... 3

Figure 2: Feed Preparation and Dewatering circuit. .......................................................................................................... 4

Figure 3: Rougher and Scavenger Gravity circuit. ............................................................................................................ 5

Figure 4: Cleaner and Recleaner Gravity circuit. .............................................................................................................. 6

Figure 5: Final Recovery circuit. ....................................................................................................................................... 7

Figure 7: Gold Room Final Recovery circuit. .................................................................................................................... 8

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2. PROCESSING PLANT

2.1. INTRODUCTION

Slurry will be pumped from the dredge pump onto the processing plant in the barge. The processing plant has been
designed to process 640 t/h of ore, with a design flow capacity of 3,200 m3/h and nominal flowrate of 2,900 m 3/h.
Gold bearing concentrate produced from the processing plant is shipped daily, and all tailings from the process are
discarded back into the pond. Figure 1 presents a block flow diagram of the processing facility; and the following
sections describe the process in detail.

Figure 1: Simplified Block Flow Diagram of the process plant.

This document shall be read in conjunction with the Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) as referenced in
Table 1 below:

Table 1: Reference drawings for Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams per Area.

Drawing No. Area Number P&ID Title Revision

DG00050564 20 Feed Preparation 00

DG00050575 20 Dewatering 00
DG00050565 30 Rougher and Scavenger Gravity 1 00
DG00050566 30 Rougher and Scavenger Gravity 2 00
DG00050567 30 Rougher and Scavenger Gravity 3 00
DG00050568 32 Cleaner and Recleaner Gravity 00
DG00050569 34 Final Recovery 00
DG00050570 90 Process Water Supply and Distribution 00
DG00050574 70 Gold Room Final Recovery 00

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 3. PROCESS DESCRIPTION

3.1. AREA 20: FEED PREPARATION AND DEWATERING

Ore from the dredge is pumped into the scalping screen via a boiler box at the feed of the scalping screen. The boiler
box is designed to break the slurry’s high flow velocity and evenly distribute the material across the width of the
scalping screen. The material has a top size of 152 mm. A flowsheet representation of the feed preparation and
dewatering circuit is shown in Figure 2.

The scalping screen scalps out the +10 mm material into the oversize chute that directs the coarse oversize directly
back into the pond. Screen spray water can be added through the spray bars to assist wash off any fine material.
The -10 mm undersize gravitates and splits into two fine screens. Each fine screen oversize (+4 mm) discharges
onto the pond via individual chutes. Each fine screen undersize (-4 mm) gravitates into each plant feed surge tank.

The two plant feed surge tanks are designed with a constant overflow, which is approximately 16% of the total slurry
flowrate. Overflow streams from both surge tanks gravitates into a single surge tank overflow hopper, from where it
is pumped for use as scalping and fine screens screen spray water. The pump discharge bleed line has a cross cut
sampler that discharges into a dedicated sample container for analysing the quality of this stream. A future allowance
is made to pump the overflow to a hydrocyclone to recover possible fine gold present into the cyclone underflow, and
return this into the plant feed surge tanks. Level in each surge tank is monitored and controlled with water addition
using a flow control valve, to aid during start-up operations and maintain a minimum tank level.

Figure 2: Feed Preparation and Dewatering circuit.

Each surge tank discharge is pumped by the dedicated dewatering cyclone feed pump. The pumps have variable
speed drives (VSD) that are linked to the flowmeters on the pump discharge lines to maintain constant flow control
into the dewatering cyclones. Controlling by constant flow to each cyclone produces ideal performance and produces
a constant feed pressure.

Two distributor banks receive material from the dewatering cyclone feed pumps, and each distributor bank feeds
three dewatering cyclones. Each dewatering cyclone underflow stream gravitates into the rougher InLine Pressure

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Jig (IPJ) via a feed chute. Cyclone overflow gravitates to the overflow launder and a portion of cyclone overflow
stream can be bled to reduce the maximum slurry density into the rougher IPJs. The remaining cyclone overflow
stream gravitates into the pond.

The overflow stream from Dewatering Cyclone #1 has a PSA sampler that will act as a primary sampler for this
stream. An off take from the primary sampler discharge will be taken through a cross cut sampler (secondary sampler)
that discharges into a dedicated sample container.

3.2. AREA 30: ROUGHER AND SCAVENGER GRAVITY

There are six rougher IPJs that receive feed from the dewatering cyclone underflow. Hutch water addition into the
IPJ is controlled by a flow control valve and flowmeter. Rougher IPJ concentrate gravitates into a chute via a blind
cyclone that provides a fixed flow control and from there into the cleaner IPJ feed hopper. The IPJ tails stream
gravitates into the tails chute, combining with IPJ overflow, via a blind cyclone that provides a fixed flow control to
feed the batch centrifugal concentrator (BCC). Figure 3 shows a flowsheet representation of the rougher and
scavenger gravity circuit.

There are three BCCs, each BCC receiving feed (IPJ tails) from two rougher IPJs. BCC tails are disposed of in the
pond and BCC concentrate gravitates into the magnetic separator feed hopper. The BCC has fluidization water
controlled by a flow control valve and flow meter added during the fluidization, rinse and flushing cycles. BCC #3 also
receives Cleaner IPJ tails together with the magnetics stream from the magnetic separator (refer to Section 3.4 for
more detail).

Figure 3: Rougher and Scavenger Gravity circuit.

The BCC #1 tails stream has a LSA sampler that will act as a primary sampler for this stream. The off take from the
primary sampler discharge will be taken through a cross cut sampler (secondary sampler) that discharges into a
dedicated sample container.

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 3.3. AREA 32: CLEANER AND RECLEANER GRAVITY

This circuit consists of a cleaner IPJ and recleaner IPJ (Open Top). The cleaner IPJ receives feed from the cleaner
IPJ feed hopper, and its’ concentrate gravitates into the recleaner IPJ via a concentrate chute and blind cyclone. The
tails gravitate to BCC #3 via the tails chute and blind cyclone. The two overflows streams from the Cleaner IPJ are
directed to BCC #1 and #2 to provide a balanced flow split to the three BCCs. Hutch water addition into the IPJ is
controlled by a flow control valve and flowmeter. Figure 4 presents the cleaner and recleaner gravity circuit.

Recleaner concentrate reports into the magnetic separator feed hopper (refer to Section 3.4), and recleaner tails are
recirculated back to the Cleaner IPJ feed hopper. As the recleaner IPJ is an open top jig, level control inside the jig
bed is achieved through the pinch valve on the tails line. The concentrate line has a blind cyclone to produce a fixed
flow.

Any overflow from the cleaner IPJ feed hopper is directed to the manual sluice to capture fine gold entrained in the
overflow stream. The manual sluice is cleaned during a shutdown, and the concentrate is moved by hand by the
operator. The manual sluice tails gravitate to the pond.

Figure 4: Cleaner and Recleaner Gravity circuit.

3.4. AREA 34: FINAL RECOVERY

Concentrate from the BCCs, recleaner IPJ and the InLine Spinners is collected into the magnetic separator feed
hopper. The material is pumped to the magnetic separator where a significant portion (~43%) of the material is
rejected as magnetics. The magnetics stream is recirculated back, by gravity, to the feed of BCC #3. The non-
magnetics stream gravitates into the auto sluices. Figure 5 presents the final recovery circuit.

Three auto sluices operate in series with all concentrate from the auto sluices gravitating into the gold room feed
hopper. Auto Sluice #1 concentrate is directed into the high grade side of the hopper while concentrate from Auto
Sluices #2 and #3 is fed into the low grade side of the hopper.

The tails from the auto sluices gravitates into the InLine Spinner (ISP) #1. Tails from this spinner feeds ISP #2. Both
concentrate streams from the spinners gravitate into the magnetic separator feed hopper.

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Fluidising water is used in the auto sluices, with Auto Sluice #1’s fluidization water controlled by a flow control valve
and flowmeter. The spinners have rinse water supply from the process water system.

Overflow from the magnetic separator feed hopper is directed to the manual sluice to capture fine gold entrained in
the overflow stream. The manual sluice is cleaned during a shutdown, and the concentrate is moved by hand by the
operator. The manual sluice tails gravitate to the pond.

Figure 5: Final Recovery circuit.

The ISP #2 tails stream has a cross cut sampler that discharges into a dedicated sample container.

3.5. AREA 70: GOLD ROOM FINAL RECOVERY

Concentrate from the first auto sluice (Auto Sluice #1) is fed into the high grade side of the Matraca feed hopper,
while concentrate from the two auto sluices and manual sluices is fed into the low grade side of the Matraca feed
hopper. The Matraca upgrades the concentrates into a final concentrate mass adequate for transport. Flow control
into the Matraca is achieved by proportional valves and the operator manages the collection of concentrates. Figure
6 presents the gold room final recovery circuit.

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 Figure 6: Gold Room Final Recovery circuit.

The Matraca discharge hopper pump recirculates the material back into either the low or high grade compartments
of the feed hopper, depending on the requirement. This is controlled from the intermediate tails hopper by selecting
the relevant stream.

The concentrate is collected into 20 kg containers for shipment out of the plant.

3.6. AREA 90: WATER AND AIR SERVICES

Instrument Air

Instrument air will be reticulated throughout the plant from two air compressor packages, each comprising:

 Air compressor to 600 kPa

 Air receiver (horizontal) for storage
 Air dryer to maintain instrument air quality

The plant air receiver (vertical) stores the air downstream of the compressors prior to use in the process plant for
pneumatically operated valves (on/off, flow control valves), bungs in the ISPs and other air requirements.

Process Water

Water from the pond is extracted using the pond water pump, which is a vertical pump. The water stream feeds a
sieve bend screen to remove trash and particles that can cause issues in the process water system. Sieve bend
oversize is discarded back into the pond, but not sufficiently close to the pond water pump to create short-circuiting
of the discard.

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Sieve bend undersize gravitates into the process water tank that has a level sensor linked to the pond water pump’s
VSD for level control. The process water pump distributes the water to the process plant at constant pressure for the
following major uses:

 Plant feed surge tanks - water addition

 Rougher IPJs – hutch water and coolers
 Batch Centrifugal Concentrators – fluidisation water
 Cleaner and Recleaner IPJ – hutch water and coolers
 Cleaner feed hopper - water addition
 Magnetic separator feed hopper - water addition
 InLine Spinners – rinse water
 Auto Sluices – fluidisation water
 Matraca – fluidisation water
 Hosing and washing around the plant

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