Galantas completes commissioning of Omagh gold processing plant

27 Jun '07

2 min read

Galantas Gold Corporation announces completion of processing plant commissioning at its wholly owned gold mine near Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

The plant as commissioned consists of crushing, grinding and flotation circuits that have a design capacity to produce sulphide concentrate containing up to 30,000 ozs of gold per year with associated lead and silver values.

The plant is now capable of operating at design capacity of 6 tonnes per hour. Sulphide recovery has increased over the commissioning period and was recently estimated at 82.03%. Concentrate quality has improved to an average of 115.8 g/t gold for recent shipments but is variable.

This compares with a grade of 144 g/t gold produced in laboratory flotation test-work. Improvements are expected to continue with increased operator experience and plant amendments.

Inconsistencies in terms of production quantity and quality are expected to gradually reduce over the next quarter as the mine and plant settles into routine operations.

Attention has now focused on the planned gravity section in the plant. Equipment has been temporarily installed and has demonstrated ability to recover a fraction of free gold for use as feed-stock for the Company's Galantas certified Irish gold jewellery.

It has also demonstrated the ability to recover coarse sulphides. Test-work is underway to expand gravity concentrate production and enhance the capability of the plant.

Additional personnel are being hired to expand processing plant operation to a 24 hour day, 5 day week as an intermediate stage prior to expanding to a full 24 hour, 7 day week later this year.

Galantas Gold Corporation

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