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Modular Gold Stripping Plants
Designed Gold Equipment, Supplied and Installed
Project
Darlot IPS Plant Upgrade
Location
400 km Nth of Kalgoorlie
Client
Barrick Gold
Contract Value
$1.1m
Commencement Date
April 2011
Practical Completion
January 2012
Job No.
2833
Description
Installation of walkway over pipework near heat exchanger and boiler.
Installation of a cradle and lifting device to facilitate removal and replacement of screens in the bottom of the elution column.
Handrail and structural steelwork repairs.
Replacement of lagging and cladding on piping and vessels.
Supply of a new pressurised electrowinning cell (that opens horizontally) and rectifier to replace the two existing electrowinning cells.
Supply and installation of new duty and standby elution pumps with auto bleed systems.
The Darlot IPS upgrade was a retrofit of a Automated Pressure Zadra elution skid mounted system to existing 4 tonne elution and acid columns remaining from a defunct Signet Engineering IPS system.
The existing two vertical Pressurised Cells were removed and a new Como split 900 x 20 cathode ES high temperature electrowinning cell with 2200A switch mode rectifiers was installed to the mezzanine.
The existing thermal oil heater system and elution tanks and piping were removed
and replaced with a two skids, previously assembled in Perth containing a direct
coil heated elution boiler, eluate tank with automated batching of solution, elution
pump and heat exchanger and local control panel with P&ID touchscreen man-
Project Manager
Sean Galvin / Ben Harrison
