OUTSTANDING MINE PERFORMANCE

GOLD FIELDS' AGNEW MINE FIXED A CRUSHING BOTTLENECK WITH SANDVIK, EARNING INDUSTRY-WIDE PLAUDITS FOR THE AWARD-WINNING UPGRADE.

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Improving production is the name of the game for Gold Fields. Agnew Gold Mine, located 375km north of Kalgoorlie in WA, boasts a production history that dates to the late 1970s using a combination of underground and surface mining and processes all ore onsite.

However, the mine’s 21-year-old tertiary crushing circuit was becoming unreliable, producing a coarse 8-10mm output that placed significant pressure on the downstream grinding circuit and risked the site’s expansion goals.

Fearing a critical production bottleneck, Gold Fields turned to Sandvik, a multinational mining engineering company that had seen such issues arise worldwide.