While West Africa is considered to be a “premium” gold mining region, owing to it achieving a significant return on investment for its mining operations, the industry lags in terms of beneficiation, most notably for gold, says minerals processing equipment manufacturer Multotec West Africa GM Godwin Dzwairo. He explains that Multotec has, therefore, introduced its SX4 spiral concentrator at various mines across Ghana for carbon degritting applications to remove impurities, thereby enhancing efficiency in the downstream, or loaded carbon elution process, which allows for efficient gold recovery from the carbon after which it is processed, refined and sold.
