Capital Equipment News December 2017

MINERAL PROCESSING

B& E International offers an innovative toll model for processing plants that reduces the upfront capital requirements for start-up mining companies.

UNLEASHING NOVEL TURNKEY MINERAL PROCESSING SOLUTIONS Backed by 40 years’ experience in the turnkey design, manufacture and operation of mineral processing plants, B&E International is revolutionising the industry with a range of solutions designed to meet specific needs for both start-up and large mining operations, across both brownfield and greenfield projects, as well as a diverse range of commodities and applications, writes Munesu Shoko .

D espite rebounding commodity prices offering some reprieve to the mining sector, caution is still very much the mining watchword as mines continue to seek better economies of scale and protection against the sort of commodity price shocks in recent years. There have been some big recent price gains in bulk commodities like iron ore, metallurgical coal, manganese and

ects the necessary greenlight. It is against this background that con- tract operation of mineral processing plants has become the new paradigm, not only in South Africa, but across the world, as mining companies look for innovative ways to avoid mammoth upfront capital expenses, reduce owning, operating and maintenance costs, while maximising productivity.

chrome ore, but many market analysts doubt whether these gains are sustainable. On the back of such uncertainty, there is a big focus on improving production process- es at existing mines, while many new min- ing businesses are looking at ways to raise capital, which is often difficult, to be able to fund all the capital projects to start operation once feasibility studies have given the proj-

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