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Debottlenecking of The Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest's Cadia Operation

The document summarizes debottlenecking efforts at the Ridgeway Concentrator operated by Newcrest Mining to increase throughput despite processing harder ore from the Cadia East mine. Upgrades included installing a new tertiary crusher to reduce the size of feed to the SAG mill, optimizing mill liner design, upgrading grinding mill drive trains, and various optimization activities. The goal was to further increase grinding circuit throughput at the plant to handle ore from Cadia East, which has a higher Bond Work Index and is more resistant to impact breakage than previous ore sources.

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Debottlenecking of The Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest's Cadia Operation

The document summarizes debottlenecking efforts at the Ridgeway Concentrator operated by Newcrest Mining to increase throughput despite processing harder ore from the Cadia East mine. Upgrades included installing a new tertiary crusher to reduce the size of feed to the SAG mill, optimizing mill liner design, upgrading grinding mill drive trains, and various optimization activities. The goal was to further increase grinding circuit throughput at the plant to handle ore from Cadia East, which has a higher Bond Work Index and is more resistant to impact breakage than previous ore sources.

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Debottlenecking of the Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest’s Cadia

Operation
Edmunds R1, Akerstrom B2, Wilkens M3, Haines, C4

1.Senior Project Metallurgist, Newcrest Mining, South Orange NSW 2800.


Email: [email protected]
2.Superintendent - Metallurgy, Newcrest Mining, South Orange NSW 2800.
Email: [email protected]
3.Plant Metallurgist - Grinding, Newcrest Mining, South Orange NSW 2800.
Email: [email protected]
4. Specialist – Plant Metallurgy, Newcrest Mining, South Orange NSW 2800.
Email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT (USE ‘HEADING 1’ STYLE)


The Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest Cadia was commissioned in 2002 as an ABC circuit to treat
the ore from the Ridgeway sublevel cave (SLC) at around 5.5MTPA. Consisting of a single pinion
32’ AG mill with a single pinion 7MW ball mill, it was a much smaller plant than the adjacent Cadia
Hill Concentrator. Subsequent expansion of the circuit saw the additional infrastructure added as the
ore source transitioned to Ridgeway Deeps, a block cave below the original Ridgeway SLC. The key
additions were a secondary crusher to reduce the SAG mill feed size and tertiary grinding for
reduction in flotation feed size to maintain recovery.
The Cadia East mine, which consists of 2 large block caves, is now the sole ore supply at Cadia.
The Cadia East ore has a higher Bond Work Index (BWi) and higher resistance to impact breakage
(lower A*b) than ore from the Ridgeway mine or Cadia Hill open cut. This ore became the feed
source for the Ridgeway concentrator in March 2016. This paper details the recent debottlenecking
improvements made to the plant to further increase grinding circuit throughput despite the harder
ore, including installing new equipment to tertiary crush the SAG mill feed, optimisation of mill liner
design, upgrades to grinding mill drive trains and numerous smaller optimisation activities.

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