Almonty delivers first ore to Sangdong mine’s ROM pad in South Korea

Almonty Industries, a planetary shaper of tungsten concentrate, has started commercialized mining astatine the Sangdong excavation successful South Korea.

The archetypal truckload of ore has been delivered to the run-of-mine (ROM) pad, which functions arsenic a cardinal staging country for ore.

This marks the last milestone earlier the commencement of commercialized production.

The ore is initially extracted from the excavation assemblage utilizing controlled blasting techniques, past gathered and transported via the haulage system.

Subsequently, trucks present the ore to the ROM pad, wherever it is stockpiled according to people anterior to processing.

At the ROM pad, the ore undergoes superior and secondary crushing, followed by grinding to scope the close particle size for further processing.

The worldly is past fed into the flotation circuit, wherever tungsten-bearing minerals are selectively separated, concentrated, dried and packaged for organisation to downstream customers.

Almonty president and CEO Lewis Black said: “This archetypal ore placement represents a strategical inflection constituent successful advancing Almonty’s ngo to fortify the planetary tungsten proviso chain. Sangdong plays a captious relation successful efforts by the US, the EU and Korea to diversify distant from the China-dominated market, which presently supplies much than 80% of the world’s tungsten.

“The resumption of accumulation astatine the Sangdong Mine forms the instauration for securing reliable, non-China tungsten proviso to cardinal sectors specified arsenic defence, semiconductors, AI hardware, aerospace and different high-technology industries.”

Once the ore has been processed, the task volition modulation into a play focused connected stabilising and verifying show of the processing stages.

Following this, the excavation volition participate into the accumulation stabilisation signifier arsenic it progresses towards full-scale commercialized operations.

The Sangdong excavation contains 1 of the world’s largest tungsten resources.

Its full mineral reserves are estimated astatine 8.57 cardinal tonnes, with an mean of 0.42% tungsten oxide.

Black highlighted that the Sangdong Mine serves arsenic the cornerstone of a caller tungsten proviso concatenation for the US and its allies, autarkic of Chinese influence, portion besides restoring Korea’s historical presumption arsenic a large tungsten supplier.

Black added: “In the longer term, the Sangdong mine’s production, combined with our upcoming tungsten oxide works and the planned improvement of the molybdenum deposit, volition signifier the ground of a afloat integrated strategic-mineral worth concatenation referred to arsenic the ‘Korean Trinity’. This strategy volition presumption Korea arsenic a planetary hub for the production, refining and upgrading of tungsten.