Chemical and vat leaching tanks for the Mill Recovery Enhancement Project
GRP supplied vat leaching and chemical tanks to GR Engineering at Cosmic Boy, WA.
In 2018 we supplied chemical and vat leaching tanks for the Cosmic Boy Mill Recovery Enhancement Project in Western Australia.
The Mill Recovery Enhancement Project
GR Engineering designed, constructed and commissioned the Cosmic Boy concentrator plant for Western Areas in 2009. The concentrator is 100 km south-east of Hyden, and its capacity was upgraded in 2011.
The vat leaching process
“Tank and vat leaching involves placing ore, usually after size reduction and classification, into large tanks or vats at ambient operating conditions containing a leaching solution and allowing the valuable material to leach from the ore into solution.”
Vat leaching tanks are rectangular containers, usually very big, and need to be lined with material resistant to the leaching media. The treated ore is usually coarse.
What we supplied
GRP Tank Solutions supplied eight 230,000L vat leaching tanks and seven chemical tanks.
The leach tanks were manufactured in two sections at our Kwinana Beach facility in Western Australia, with final assembly completed on site at Forrestania.
The materials for each tank were selected for the specific chemical it holds, for long-term protection.
If you need chemical or vat leaching tanks for a project, contact our team.