SX EW PLANT PRESENTATION

The Wetar project site is located on the north coast of Wetar Island within the Republic of Indonesia, approximately 120 km to the north east of Dili, East Timor. The deposit consists of two distinct ore bodies: Kali Kuning and Lerokis, located approximately 4 km apart.
Finders Resources intends to process the ore using thermophilic bacteria-based copper heap leach technology based on the cost evaluation of a nominal 5 t/day, cathode copper metal heap leach trial.
The demonstration plant will use approximately 100,000 tonne of ore for the trial.
Both the Kali and Lerokis deposits were previously mined by PT Prima Lirang Mining from 1988 to 1996. This operation focused on the gold rich cap of each deposit and mining and processing was not carried out on the copper-rich sulphidic ores below.
The Demonstration Plant will be designed , constructed and operating by mid 2008.

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• SX EW
• wetar
• indonesia
• mining
• sx/ew
• feasibility study
• calder projects
• Copper
• Nickel
• Uranium
• electrowinning
• solvent
• extraction