a1 toll treatment

This is from a recent trading update from A1 Consolidated and gives a bit more info on the progress of the toll treatment:

"In June 2012 the Company announced that it had commenced toll treating at Maldon Resources Pty Ltd’s Porcupine Flat Treatment Plant. The Agreement allows for the treatment of 150,000 tonnes over 3 years, at a rate of 50,000 tonnes per annum. The treatment process/plan involved an optimisation period during which an initial 5,000t bulk sample would be treated and the results used to determine the best way to optimize the mill to treat the ‘nuggety’ material mined at A1. As a result of this optimization process management have resolved to include a simple gravity circuit at the front end of the process. The Company has acquired the components and are constructing a mobile gravity circuit. The gravity circuit has been configured to match in with Maldon Resources mill throughput of circa 180,000 tonnes per annum. The Company expects the gravity circuit to be commissioned early Q1 2013 with initial treatment at 4000 tonnes per month."