Noche Buena Gold Mine

Client

Industrias Peñoles

Location

Municipality of Caborca, Sonora, Mexico, 23 km from La Herradura Mine.

Scope

Development of basic and detailed engineering for the processing plant and auxiliary infrastructure of the new Noche Buena Mine, from pregnant-solution pumping and Merrill–Crowe processing through doré production and the return of barren solution to the leach pads. The project included the layout, process facilities, operating and administrative buildings, industrial utilities, and electrical, instrumentation, and control infrastructure.

Technical Data

  • Capacity: 750–975 m3/h Merrill–Crowe process
  • Offices, medical services, dining facilities, and administrative services
  • Smelting building
  • Laboratory
  • Maintenance workshops and warehouses
  • Truck wash, substations, auxiliary services area, treatment plant, and external networks

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