Anooraq Resources CEO Philip Kotze has expressed his delight at the recent completion of the company's concentrator plant upgrade at its Bokoni platinum mine.

The project at the site - which is located in Limpopo province - incorporated improvements to the main-stream pumps to aid production throughput.

In addition, cyclone clusters have been created to streamline classification, while the Merensky concentrator primary mill is now a semi-autogenous facility, rather than an autogenous one.

As a result of the work, Bokoni will now offer milling capacity of 165,000 tonnes per month, with 120,000 tonnes coming from the Merensky reef and 25,000 tonnes drawn from the UG2 reef.

Mr Kotze explained that the completion of the project should allow the concentrator plant to withstand Annoraq's first-phase plans to expand production to 160,000 tonnes per month by 2014.

"We are pleased that the concentrator plant now has sufficient capacity to mill all our first-phase growth production plan feed building up to 2014," he said.

"Increased production throughput going forward is a key ingredient for our success at the mine, both on the production and the costs sides of the equation."

Anooraq's main pgm projects are Ga-Phasha and the Boikgantsho Joint Venture.

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Anooraq's Bokoni concentrator (29/01/10)

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