A second preconcentrate plant at the Vatomina project in Madagascar will be complete by the end of October. Tirupati Graphite made the announcement and said they are optimising its processing plant by improving the ore’s head grade from 3% to more than 4%, to reach 18 000 t/y capacity, compared with 12 000 t/y currently.
The company’s initial preconcentrate plant achieved nameplate ore feed capacity of 600 t/d at the start of September, and is soon to be synchronised with the second preconcentrate plant. Construction of both a preconcentrate and a main processing plant at the Sahamamy project is also progressing to final stages of completion. The company will start trial runs in the next two weeks and ramp up production by the end of the year.
Tirupati Graphite PLC (LON:TGR) is a fully integrated specialist graphite and graphene producer, with operations in Madagascar and India, with a vision of developing a world-leading benchmark flake graphite company.
