Location Analysis and Selection of Bulk Emulsion Sites forMining Operations- a Case Study in West Afric by George Agyei in Aspects in Mining& Mineral Science
The purpose of this paper is to
consider the option of re-locating one of the plants from Ghana to a
neigh bouring country or locating a new facility, with all sites receiving
emulsion supply from these manufacturing sources. The application of Lindo
software for linear programming optimisation with transportation methods to
determine the most suitable set of bulk emulsion plant locations and financial
evaluations of the locations possibilities was done. An assessment into the
current bulk emulsion plants locations in Ghana based on cost, distribution of
customer demands and clients’requirements; analysis into the options of an
emulsion plant location or relocation outside Ghana revealed that locating a
bulk emulsion plant with a monthly production capacity of 1200 tonnes in
Burkina Faso C would provide a lower total operating cost. The Comparative
analysis of selected scenarios of locations revealed that adding a bulk emulsion
plant with a monthly production capacity of 1200 tonnes in Burkina to Faso Site
C to the existing locations in Ghana constitute the most economically viable
set.
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