First Bauxite is pleased to announce the commissioning of new process and quality control facilities at its bauxite mining and beneficiation plant in Guyana, South America. The investment includes construction of a 6900 square-foot purpose-built building that houses a new quality control (QC) laboratory, offices and conferencing & training rooms, located at the company’s processing and shiploading facility at Sandhills. This is augmented with a new process control (satellite) laboratory located at the Bonasika mine and beneficiation plant.
The Sandhills QC laboratory is outfitted with state -of-the-art equipment and benefits from new sampling & testing protocols and a data management system that are all designed to increase the scope & capacity of assays that are performed. This will ensure accurate, consistent analyses and optimised ‘sampling to reporting’ turnaround times.
The satellite laboratory will support the Mining Team with grade control and stockpile management including lot tracking & traceability. It will also support the Production Team with ‘near real time’ process control data to enable washplant optimisation, ensuring consistency and adherence to finished product specifications.
In addition to the new hardware, the company is making significant investments in training and development for the Technical Services team with the specialized knowledge and experience from the global First Bauxite group. It is also leveraging relationships with internationally recognised external analytics partners and reference laboratories that provide round-robin benchmarking and auditing services.
This major investment comes at a time when the market increasingly demands accuracy, consistency, and reliability from its suppliers. First Bauxite has equipped itself for the long haul to be a reliable and trustworthy supply partner that can meet the needs of its customers, providing full Mine-to-Customer traceability.
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