has a really low environmental impact, and it is certainly starting to gain favour with a number of the smaller mine sites. It’s the whole processing train. It’s the crushing, the screening… a whole mini-size plant to convert ore into gold.” The modular units, can, with regular maintenance, be used indefinitely. VDM provides the necessary training, and will remove the unit when the work is completed, refurbish it, and use it again on other gold mine sites. Closer to home, VDM recently embarked on a large project at Cape Preston, an iron ore project which will grow into the largest
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