From 2006 to 2008, in cooperation with Russian design institutes in St Petersburg, SRK prepared a Metallurgical/Processing Technical Study for the 10 Mtpa Bystrinskoye copper concentrator in Siberia. This study included laboratory and pilot testing, flowsheeting, equipment definition, layouts and calculation of capital and operating costs. In 2017, SRK reviewed the project status during plant commissioning. The concentrator was very similar to the original SRK study and has since come online successfully, producing gold, copper and magnetite concentrates.
