PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Gold developer Eastern Goldfields has awarded a A$12.5-million contract to project house GR Engineering Services to refurbish the 1.2-million-tonne-a-year Davyhurst gold processing plant, in Western Australia.
The processing facilities have been on care-and-maintenance since 2008, and are being refurbished and recommissioned to process ore from the nearby production sources within the Davyhurst hub.
“The award of this contract is a major milestone in the steps required to bring the Davyhurst project back into production,” said Eastern Goldfields executive chairperson Michael Fotios.
“We expect to be pouring gold early during the first quarter of 2017. The award of this contract, together with the drilling we have conducted on our large tenement footprint, augers well for the future of the company.”
GR Engineering is expected to start work on the plant immediately, and will be completed by the first quarter of 2017.