GRANDE CÔTE OPERATIONS
AFRICA
Ramping up production Located 50 kilometres north of Dakar , Grande Côte runs parallel with the ocean for the entire 100 km length of the mining concession , making it a globally significant mineral sands deposit .
The mine itself was constructed over a two year period , at a cost of $ 650 million , finishing in March 2014 and will mine relatively low grade 1.7 percent heavy mineral sands .
Now in the “ ramping-up ”, commissioning phase of the project , Finnis is eager to start seeing the fruits of the organisation ’ s labour .
“ The project itself is fully integrated and starts off with us mining a large sand dune with our dredge .” he said . “ We then process that sand through a mineral concentrator - a floating wet
‘ Grande Côte runs parallel with the ocean for the entire 100km length of the site , making it one of the world ’ s largest mineral sands deposits ’
Construction of the wet concentrator takes place on site
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