Primary crushing takes place underground and ore is then automatically hoisted up a 600 metre shaft to be transported to the concentrator on a 1.2 kilometre overland conveyor belt.

In the plant, the ore is crushed using three stage crushing, ground down to a fine slurry and the copper sulphide minerals are then concentrated.

After filtration , the concentrate is transported to Burnie port from where it is exported to Sterlite’s copper smelter in Tuticorin, India.