How prepared is London Mining for operation in 2011?
London Mining, we have been assured, would start full operation in 2011 and if this date is anything to go by, the media should be looking at the degree of preparedness of the company to meet its target date.
The Sierra Express Media has exclusively launched an investigation to ascertain the degree of readiness of the company. This medium has gathered that the company’s mining project is coordinating three principal aspects in preparation for the mining, namely, mining, planning and scheduling.
The Mining component includes engineering studies, contract award and implementation and the negotiation and award of sensible and affective mining contact.
As a matter of fact, the Engineering Department of the company is rehabilitating and reconstructing the remains of the he former DELCO quarters, housing former staff of the former company. The units are no longer in good condition, having been vandalized during the civil conflict.
With just a year to rehabilitate hundred of structures for full operation to commence, plans are underway for the company to undertake large scale building and construction works at the mine site in order to upgrade its operational status to international standards, our investigation reveals. However, some achievements have been recorded through the effort of the Project Manager in charge of the port facilities as the main project to construct the 18.4km road from Mammy Nancy to Thofoyim has almost been completed while the construction of the jetty for the ore shipment and the other for the communities aimed at easing transportation of their goods and services has just commenced.
In other development, the plant departments in the company are currently involved in the construction of the iron ore processing plant, laboratory, and the final product handling facilities.
According to an inside source, the processing plant will use modern WHIMS with an intensify magnetic separator technology to recover valuable iron ore from the gravity tailing of the former Delco operation coupled with the well equipped quality control laboratory, bringing the plant system project cost to 32 million United State dollars. This is geared towards deploying high quality standards in all of the company’s operation including environmental safe practices and technical skills training of the local workforce.
However, the potential for the company to make profit stands out very clearly because during the past six months intensive drilling and resource evaluation disclosed that mineral potential of the tailings with an inferred resource estimate of 37.8 million tonnes of iron ore is at a grade of 22.2 percent with a cut-off grade of 15 percent.
Significant strides in the evaluation of the primary ore was also carried out as the resource modeling team assessment disclosed 124 million tons of the iron ore at a grade of 31 percent at the Ghafal Hills and 269 million tons of iron ore at a grade of 30.48 at the Masaboin Hill, north of Sierra Leone. At the end of the investigation this medium is of the view that everything humanly possible to start operation come 2011 are now in place as even the Sierra Leonean engineer, Mathew Tarawally from the Royal School of Mines in London who once served at senior level in Delco and the iron ore in Liberia and Jamaica, respectively, is currently in town ahead of 2011 for operation to kick start.
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