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Safety a key factor when choosing mill lining Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd, Ghana The site, Akyem mine, is located 125 km northwest of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Newmont is one of the leading producers of gold in the world. The operation comprises a large conventional open-pit mine feeding ore to a process plant consisting of crushing and grind- ing units. Akyem has an annual production of 450 000 oz of gold. Metso has installed the first Megaliner™ mill lining in Africa at Newmont’s Akyem operation in Ghana. The aim is to increase safety, speed up installations and reduce the number of shutdowns from 4 to 2 per year. The successful in- stallation was carried out without incidents and the reline time was cut by 12 hours. Metso and Newmont are now planning for even further improvements. Case: Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd, Ghana When every hour counts, you constantly need to question your process. This is something that Newmont did at their Akyem operation in Ghana. Newmont is one of the world’s leading gold producers, and an industry leader in safety and sustainability. The company was founded in Colorado in 1921 and has to- day approximately 28,000 employees and contractors in operations and advanced development projects on five continents in seven countries. Newmont obtained the mining lease for their Akyem oper- ation in Ghana in 2010 and began commercial production in 2013. At the same time, the gold price went down and it became important to ensure that production functioned optimally. The company wanted to minimize downtime and contacted Metso to discuss different lining solutions for their SAG mill. Metso saw great potential to make im- provements by using Megaliner™ as it enables a quick and easy installation and removal of liners as well as a safer and less stressful environment for installation crews. It was also safety that together with shorter reline time became the key factors in Newmont’s final decision. Higher safety with less people inside the mill Newmont puts great focus on safety with a believe that no job is worth doing in an unsafe way… None. Newmont’s safety slogan is ‘the right way, the safe way, everyday’. The © 2015 Metso Corporation. All rights reserved. All product names used herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

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Safety a key factor when choosing mill lining

Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd, Ghana

The site, Akyem mine, is located 125 km northwest of Accra, the capital city of Ghana.

Newmont is one of the leading producers of gold in the world.

The operation comprises a large conventional open-pit mine feeding ore to a process plant consisting of crushing and grind-ing units.

Akyem has an annual production of 450 000 oz of gold.

Metso has installed the first Megaliner™ mill lining in Africa at Newmont’s Akyem operation in Ghana. The aim is to increase safety, speed up installations and reduce the number of shutdowns from 4 to 2 per year. The successful in-stallation was carried out without incidents and the reline time was cut by 12 hours. Metso and Newmont are now planning for even further improvements.

Case: Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd, Ghana

When every hour counts, you constantly need to question your process. This is something that Newmont did at their Akyem operation in Ghana.

Newmont is one of the world’s leading gold producers, and an industry leader in safety and sustainability. The company was founded in Colorado in 1921 and has to-day approximately 28,000 employees and contractors in operations and advanced development projects on five continents in seven countries.

Newmont obtained the mining lease for their Akyem oper-ation in Ghana in 2010 and began commercial production in 2013. At the same time, the gold price went down and it became important to ensure that production functioned optimally. The company wanted to minimize downtime and contacted Metso to discuss different lining solutions for their SAG mill. Metso saw great potential to make im-provements by using Megaliner™ as it enables a quick and easy installation and removal of liners as well as a safer and less stressful environment for installation crews. It was also safety that together with shorter reline time became the key factors in Newmont’s final decision.

Higher safety with less people inside the millNewmont puts great focus on safety with a believe that no job is worth doing in an unsafe way… None. Newmont’s safety slogan is ‘the right way, the safe way, everyday’. The

© 2015 Metso Corporation. All rights reserved.All product names used herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

Metso Megaliner™Megaliner™, with its innovative attachment system, enables a quick and easy installation and removal of liners as well as a safer and less stress-ful environment for installation crews. Each Megaliner™ element covers a large area of up to 5m², is light-weight in relation to size and has a minimum number of attachment points and liner parts.

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choice of Megaliner™ fits well. Megaliner™ has an attach-ment system that allows liner bolts to be inserted and removed from the outside of the mill. Therefore no mem-bers of the installation crew need to be in the danger-zone of the liners while inserting or removing liner bolts.

“Having the bolts on the outside of the mill is brilliant. We should use the same concept wherever it is possible as it increases safety”, says Chris Brits, Process Manager at Akyem, Newmont Ghana.

Installation time cut by 12 hoursNewmont has installed Megaliner™ on the shell of their SAG mill. The removal of the old steel lining and the in-stallation of Megaliner™ was performed by Metso’s service team.

“We are very pleased with the installation as it saved us more than 12 hours and no incidents occurred. Using Meg-aliner™ we had 50% less parts to install and the reline was completed in 24 hours compared to 36 hours that our steel lining installations used to take”, says Chris Brits.

The goal is to reduce the number of annual shutdowns and at the same time significantly reduce the reline time. Metso has already cut installation time with 12 hours as well as reduced one annual 36 hour shutdown. Moreover, areas that will improve wear life and reline time even fur-ther have been identified. Newmont plans to expand the use of Megaliner™ to their ball mill at Akyem and to other Newmont operations.

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Jacob Natio Sales EngineerTel.: +233 244340231 [email protected]

Malte Åkerblom, Area Product Support ManagerTel.: +46 910 [email protected]

© 2016 Metso Corporation. All rights reserved.All product names used herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.

Raymond Ackabah Manager Mill lining Support, West Africa Tel.: +233 [email protected]