Ban Houayxai is a conventional open pit mine operation that utilises a gravity concentration and carbon-in-leach (CIL) processing plant. Throughput design capacity is 4.0Mt/a, but the plant can potentially process up to 5.0Mt/a depending on the ore type. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.