Before the acquisition of the TS 525 Radial Telescopic Conveyor this customer was stockpiling the material by unloading trucks directly into a stockpile heap. As a key factor in a successful heap leaching operation is ‘permeability’, stockpiling in this way meant the material was too compacted. This resulted in an ineffective leaching project as the solution could not percolate the compacted areas which left valuable minerals lost within the material. Read more