The Aguila mill’s crushing plant was improved and expanded with the addition of a tertiary crusher enabling not only additional capacity but smaller size feed to the ball mills.
With the tertiary crusher online, crushing operations increased to a nominal 750 tonnes per shift, the company said.
According to the company, the modification represents a nominal 65% increase to the mill’s crushing capacity and this expansion represents the first step in ultimately expanding mill capacity.
The company’s 2013 target of 200,000 precious metal gold equivalent ounce production was estimated on a nominal mill throughput of 1,200 tonnes per day, from the Arista high-grade underground ore.
