Modern Mining September 2019

Mobile equipment acquired for lead/silver project The second-hand mobile crushing equipment is located in Lilongwe and is approximately 45 km from the Tshimpala project. The equipment has only 520 oper- ating hours (mobile jaw crusher and mobile screen) and 820 operating hours (mobile rotary crusher). The mobile crushing and screening

equipment, which is to be provided under an operating lease agreement with Shire, with equal payments scheduled over the initial 12 months of operations, was origi- nally purchased, as new, at a total cost of US$1,6 million. Commissioning and delivery of the mobile plant and equipment by Shire is scheduled to be completed at Tshimpala in the December 2019 quarter. 

ASX-listed Force Commodities has entered into an agreement with Malawian-based engineering and construction company, Shire Civils, for the acquisition of mobile crushing and screening equipment that it plans to use at its Tshimpala project. This is a high-grade lead and silver project located in the Dowa District of Malawi. The mobile crushing and screening equipment comprises a Metso Lokotrack LT106 mobile jaw crusher, a Metso Lokotrack LT1213 mobile rotary crusher and a Metso Lokotrack ST4.8 mobile screen capable of a throughput of up to 250 t/h and production of four different sized prod- ucts through the triple deck screens. In addition, under the agreement, Shire will also be engaged to establish the plat- forms for the mobile equipment at the processing site, transportation of the mobile equipment from Lilongwe to the processing site, full commissioning of the mobile equip- ment and training of the company’s planned employees from the surrounding communi- ties, who will operate the equipment.

The Lokotrack LT106 to be deployed at the Tshimpala project (photo: Force Commodities).

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