aurora
Business Writer
AUSTRALIA-LISTED mining concern, Prospect Resources, took delivery of the pre-assembled pilot plant crushing equipment over the weekend.
The equipment will allow the company to conduct the mine’s first blast this week.
Through its Twitter handle, the mining firm whose Arcadia project is situated a few kilometres East of Harare, described the arrival of the equipment as “exciting times”.
And commenting on the latest development, managing director, Mr Sam Hosack described the arrival of the equipment as great progress.
“Great progress Trevor and team. Safety and Quality are paramount as we target first sample production in June,” Hosack tweeted.
The operation of the pilot plant will allow for the accumulation of knowledge during design, mitigating the scaling issues that peer lithium producers have experienced on account of a too rapid growth in supply
Prospect will first focus on producing petalite, which is technical grade and spodumene, (chemical) grade lithium samples.
Bongani Ndlovu