Lindian moves Kangankunde into execution phase with key plant orders

Lindian Resources Ltd (ASX:LIN, OTC:LINIF) has moved the Kangankunde Rare Earths Project successful Malawi deeper into execution mode, placing orders for cardinal long-lead processing instrumentality portion ramping up parallel operation workfronts crossed earthworks, infrastructure and tract readiness.

The institution has placed procurement orders for captious processing packages, including the SAG mill, thickener and flocculation plant, shaking tables and loop filters, successful a determination designed to amended docket certainty arsenic operation enactment accelerates.

Lindian identified the SAG mill arsenic the main long-lead point connected the project’s captious path, with an estimated transportation timeframe of astir 22 weeks. The thickener and flocculation works bundle is expected wrong astir 14 weeks, portion shaking tables and loop filters transportation transportation windows of astir 20 weeks, inclusive of manufacture, investigating and transport.

“Seeing much than 550 radical connected tract moving crossed aggregate workfronts safely, and achieving 200,000 LTI-free hours, is simply a beardown reflection of the civilization and subject we’re gathering astatine Kangankunde," Lindian Resources enforcement manager Zac Komur said. "This task is present firmly successful execution mode, enabling earthworks are good advanced, cardinal infrastructure is progressing, and we person placed orders for the captious long-lead works packages to fastener successful transportation timing and support the schedule. The task is aligning to the maestro schedule, with process works operation and excavation stripping commencing successful February, first blast successful April, grid powerfulness energisation successful July, and targeting archetypal ore provender and archetypal ore successful November 2026. Our absorption is straightforward: bash the enactment safely, power the captious path, and present a high-quality uncommon world task with gait and certainty.”

Aerial presumption of the tract medication precinct nether construction, including the admin gathering and tract aesculapian clinic, supporting operational readiness arsenic tract enactment ramps up.

On-site enactment continues to ramp up, with much than 550 unit present moving crossed aggregate workfronts arsenic bulk earthworks, entree roads and trafficable level mentation advancement toward the main operation phase.

Lindian is deploying its owner-operator Komatsu fleet to support momentum and bounds reliance connected third-party contractors, with the aforesaid instrumentality supporting haul roadworthy development, level enactment and Tailings Storage Facility earthworks arsenic portion of a lower-capital execution strategy.