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Batu Hijau Equipments PDF
Batu Hijau Equipments PDF
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he Asia-Pacific region represents one of of 50-50 joint venture partners Newmont Caterpillar 793 trucks line up to be loaded by a P&H
Newmont’ss largest production areas in
Newmont’ Australia and Barrick Gold Australia. In New shovel, Batu Hijau mine, Indonesia
terms of annual gold output, and is on Zealand, Newmont operates the Favona
par with Newmont’s North American assets underground mine and the Martha open pit still subject to finalisation prior to the main
centred in Nevada. mine in Waihi on the North Island. 2010 results announcement on February 24.
The division, referred to as Newmont Asia In Indonesia on the island of Sumbawa is There are various growth opportunities within
Pacific or Newmont APAC, has four major the PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PTNNT) Newmont APAC, ranging from entirely new
sites in Australia and one in New Zealand, as majority owned and operated mine at Batu projects such as Elang in Indonesia, to
well as one large mine in Indonesia. Hijau. PTNNT, itself a Newmont extensive in-mine and near-mine expansions
The Australian sites include the Tanami Indonesia/Sumitomo joint venture owns 56%, such as Tanami Shaft Stage 3 and the Golden
underground gold operations in the Northern with PT Pukuafu Indah (20%) and PT Multi Pike project at KCGM.
Territory’s Tanami desert which exploit the Daerah Bersaing (24%) the remaining
Callie orebody,
orebody, the Jundee underground gold shareholders. Newmont has been operating Boddington
operation near Wiluna in Western Australia the mine since 2000. In 1980, geologists from Reynolds Australia
and the flagship asset, the Boddington surface The regional office for Newmont’s APAC Mines (part of the Worsley Alumina Joint
gold mine near Perth in Western Australia. Operations is in Subiaco, Western Australia, Venture)
Venture) discovered gold bearing laterite near
Beyond these fully owned assets is The Super located within the greater Perth metropolitan the town of Boddington when investigating a
Pit, which is managed by Kalgoorlie area. The attached table shows the latest base metal and gold geochemical anomaly
Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) on behalf results for the APAC operations, which were defined by the Geological Survey of Western
Australia in 1978. In 1981, gold mining began
Newmont APAC 2010 preliminary results at Boddington Gold Mine and by 1989, it was
the largest gold producer in Australia
Estimated attributable Estim
Estimated
ated attributable Estimated consolidated producing an average of 400,000 oz/y of gold
prod (‘000 oz) sales (‘000 oz) costs attributable to sales and a total of 4 Moz during its life.
in $/oz Newmont’ss current Boddington operation,
Newmont’
Boddington – Gold 728 679 $590 Newmont Boddington Gold (NBG) is an
Other Australia/NZ 1,075 1,078 $546 expansion of this original mine that operated
Batu Hijau – Gold 364 324 $237 from 1987 to 2001. It is a large, open pit
Copper (Mlbs) Copper (Mlbs) Copper ($/lb) mining operation about 130 km southeast of
Boddington 58 50 $1.86 Perth. Newmont purchased the remaining
Batu Hijau 269 242 $0.69 33.33 % interest in the Boddington project
from its joint venture partner AngloGold
Boddington KCGM (50% Newmont) Batu Hijau (PTNNT 56%) Waihi (Martha)
Haul trucks 40 Caterpillar 793D; 34 Caterpillar 793C 111 Caterpillar 793C 16 Caterpillar 777C
3 Caterpillar 785 4 Caterpillar 793F
6 Caterpillar 789 (rental)
Excavators/loaders 3 Bucyrus 495HD rope shovels; 4 Komatsu PC8000 / 6 P&H 4100A and 1 2 Hitachi EX1100 /
1 Bucyrus (Terex O&K) RH120 / 1 PC2000 / 1 PC1250 2800XPA rope shovels; 1 EX1800 / 1 EX1900
and 1 RH340 hydraulic hydraulic excavators; 2 Caterpillar 5230 and hydraulic excavators;
excavators; 1 Caterpillar 994 Le Tourneau L-1850 1 Hitachi EX5500 hydraulic 2 Caterpillar 992C
wheel loader wheel loader excavators; 2 Caterpillar 994 wheel loaders
and 3 988 wheel loaders
Drill rigs 2 Atlas Copco ROC L8; 2 Atlas 8 Atlas Copco D45KS Atlas Copco 2 ROC L8, 5 Montabert drill rigs
Copco PV-271 Pit Viper; 9 Atlas (Ausdrill contracted) 1 Pit Viper PV-351; Atlas
Copco DML; 5 Atlas Copco DML / Copco (Ingersoll Rand)
DM45 (Ausdrill contracted) 1 DMM2 / 1 DML / 3 DMH
Other 1 Caterpillar 16H and 2 24H 1 Caterpillar 16H graders; Caterpillar crawler dozers 2 Caterpillar 14G graders;
graders; 4 Caterpillar 854 wheeled and 2 16M graders: 2 854G 6 D11R / 3 D10R / 4 D10T / 1 D10 and 1 D9 crawler
dozers; 3 Caterpillar D11 and wheeled dozers; 1 D10R and 2 D8R; 4 Caterpillar 24H dozers; 2 Komatsu D85
2 D10 crawler dozers; 1 Caterpillar 4 D10T crawler dozers: and 2 16H graders; dozers
785 water truck; 1 Caterpillar 4 Caterpillar water trucks 3 Caterpillar 834G scrapers
Caterpillar 966H and 930G (2 777 and 2 785) 4 854 wheeled dozers;
wheel loaders; 4 785B water trucks
4 Orica MMU (managed by Orica)
Other 1 Caterpillar grader; 2 Normet 2 Caterpillar 12H and 1 Caterpillar 120G grader 1 Normet Spraymec
6705B charging vehicles 16H graders; 2 Robbins 650W shotcreting vehicle /
raise drills (41R and 73R); 1 Charmec 1610B charging
Getman 2-500C and vehicle; 1 Caterpillar 12H
Charmec 1610B charging grader; 3 Volvo L120E
rigs; 4 Boart Longyear tool carriers;
diamond drills (2 LM75 /
2 LM90) 5 Volvo L120
wheel loaders; 1 Caterpillar
980G and 1 972G wheel
loaders; 1 Caterpillar 69D
truck
and four of the mine’s R2900G Caterpillar The Jundee process circuit is a standard CIL by a Metso HP100 cone crusher driven by a 90
LHDs are equipped with the Minegem system. plant with a hard rock processing capacity of kW motor and operating with a closed side set
The underground mining and fleet some 1.35 Mt/y. On the current blend ratio of of 15 mm which crushes pebble sized scat
maintenance activity is carried out by Byrnecut 1 Mt of hard underground ore, the mill material cut by the SAG mill trommel screen.
Mining (BCM) under an alliance contract throughput is some 1.7 Mt/y. The make-up Pre-leach classification is achieved using a
arrangement. Mine day to day management is feed is sourced from some 3 Mt of hydrocyclone classifier (cyclone) circuit of 20
shared by BCM and Newmont personnel who accumulated low grade oxide material. cyclones with 8 operating at any one time. The
form an integrated management structure to The grinding circuit is preceded by a single gravity circuit comprises two 30 in Knelson
ensure that functional duplication is toggle overhead eccentric swing jaw crusher classifiers that batch treat a portion of the
eliminated. All mine design, blast design, (150 kW) with a 350 t/h operating capacity. cyclone underflow capturing the coarse gold
production geology, survey, geotechnical and The circuit comprises a 5.5 m diameter (28 ft) fraction. Concentrate from the Knelson units is
long term mine planning is undertaken by by 8.7 m long low aspect SAG mill with steel then fed to an in-line leach reactor that uses a
Newmont staff. The BCM alliance also supplies lining and a 3,850 kW motor which operates high cyanide/caustic solution to complex the
surface operating equipment, which facilitates in open circuit. The ball mill is a 4.26 m by gold and support dissolution into pregnant
secondary haulage, road maintenance, mill 6.68 m low aspect rubber lined mill fitted with eluate.
crusher feed and waste rock management a 2,200 kW motor – the ball mill operates in The wet circuit comprises a CIL circuit with
operations. closed circuit. The grinding circuit is supported two leach tanks and six adsorption tanks –
Boddington
Equipment Manufacturer Specifications
Primary gyratory (2) FLSmidth (FFE Minerals) 60 in x 113 in, capacity 3,670 t/h; each 1,000 kW
Ball mills (4) Metso 26 ft x 44 ft (each 14.5 MW)
Cone crushers (6) Metso MP1000, capacity 1,415 t/h (each 750 kW)
High Pressure Grinding Rolls (4) (HPGR) Polysius (ThyssenKrupp) Capacity 2,105 t/h (each 1,400 kW)
Flotation tanks (47) Outotec Outotec 6 TankCell-150; 18 TankCell-200; 9 TankCell-100; 3 TankCell-30;
7 OK-8; 4 SK1800 SkimAir flash flotation cells
Leach tanks (24) SPX Lightnin 6 17 m x 17 m leach tanks; 14 14.9 m x 14.9 m adsorption tanks
Thickener tank Outotec 74 m diameter
Batu Hijau
Equipment Manufacturer Specifications
Primary gyratory (2) Metso (Svedala) 60 in x 89 in, 750 kW
SAG mills (2) Metso (Svedala) 36 ft x 19 ft (each 13.5 MW gearless drive from ABB)
Ball mills (4) Metso (Svedala) 20 ft x 33.5 ft (geared Westinghouse 7,500 kW motors)
Cone crushers (4) Metso MP1000
Pebble screen Schenck Process 7.3 m x 3.6 m flat deck
Vertimill and polishing mill Metso (Svedala) 950 kW and 375 kW
Rougher/scavenger flotation cells (50) FLSmidth (Eimco) 127 m3 dimensions, powered by Toshiba 150 kW motor
Hydrocyclones (15) Weir Minerals (Cavex) 26 in diameter
Column flotation cells (4) Consep CPT 4.3 m x 14 m
Cleaner and scavenger flotation cells (23) FLSmidth (Wemco) 4 42.5 m3 first cleaner cells; 4 42.5 m 3 scavenger cells; 10 14. 2 m 3
second cleaner cells; 5 14.2 m 3 third cleaner cells
Thickener (3) Supaflo Each 30m diameter
Filter press (2) Metso (Svedala) VPA15-5, 54 plates
Jundee
Equipment Manufacturer Specifications
Primary jaw crusher Metso (Nordberg) C125
SAG mill ANI 18 ft x 28.5 ft, 3.85 MW
Ball mill Metso (Nordberg) 22 ft x 14 ft, 2.2 MW
Pebble crusher Metso HP100
Hydrocyclones (20) Weir Minerals (Cavex) CVX250
Gravity concentrators (2) Knelson KC-CD30
In-line leach reactor Gekko ILR1000BA
Leach and adsorption tanks (8) - 2 1,700 m3 mechanically agitated leach tanks; 6 1,700 m 3 mechanically
agitated adsorption tanks
Desorption / carbon regen / 1 6 t batch split AARl elution circuit; 2 electrowinning cells; 1 WCC250D-
gold smelting circuit - 2 vertical gas-fired carbon regen kiln; 1 electric calcine oven; 1 A300
furnace
CONGRATULATIONS NEWMONT ON
90 YEARS OF MINING LEADERSHIP