Brazil Manganese Corporation (BMC), a JV between Cancana Resources and Ferrometals BV, has hired engineering and consulting firm Küttner to build a 50,000 mt/year pilot processing plant.
The pilot processing plant will be built at BMC’s manganese project in the Jaburi site, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. According to BMC’s co-owner Cancana, the pilot processing plant will “enable BMC to process both the colluvium and primary vein material.”
Cancana said the processing plant will have a 50,000 mt/year finished manganese capacity, and should commence production early in 2017.
Procurement for the equipment and material should start in the coming months with the equipment being supplied by Allmineral. Cancana said the total cost of the pilot processing plant is expected to be BRL 11.7 million.
“The expanded capacity will also allow BMC to further explore and reach out to international niche markets of high grade manganese,” Cancana said.
“The pilot processing plant will also enable BMC to understand the response of the forecasted mining process to the primary veins and enable BMC to verify the metallurgy as it moves the focus to planning the feasibility studies for a further expanded Phase 1 plant,” it said, adding that a phase 1 plant depends on the completion of a “positive preliminary economic assessment and feasibility study.”