Modern Mining April 2018

feature MODULAR PLANTS An FLSmidth modular RC plant.

Modular RC plants can boost recoveries and lower costs

FLSmidth’s incorporation of its REFLUX™ Classification (RC™) technology into modular plant formats has pushed the boundaries for higher recoveries of minerals at process stage. But a further game-changer from this global engineering Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is to offer low-risk or no-risk partnerships with mines to extract more value from their mineral assets.

operations,” says Roy Hazell, FLSmidth’s Capital Sales Director for sub-Saharan Africa. “With our RC solution packaged into a modular plant, we offer a value-added proposition that can simply be added on to an existing opera- tion and create more revenue for the customer, without disrupting their plant or changing its infrastructure.” The RC concept has fast been recognised as offering better recovery rates than spirals when dealing with fine particles and is much more effective in separating slurries containing min- erals of varying densities. Much of FLSmidth’s initial research and development work on the application of the modular RC in South Africa has focused on the extraction of the chromite ‘contaminant’ from the platinum group metal (PGM) process stream on platinum mines treating UG2 ores. Often discarded as a waste product, the chro- mite can add considerably to the bottom line, with metallurgical grade chrome concentrate

S ince FLSmidth showcased its RE- FLUX Classifier at its Delmas Super­ center last October, it is moving ahead not just with engineering the technology to treat a wider range of minerals, but to offer mines innovative con- tractual and financial packages to boost rev- enues at little or no risk to the customer. “Our philosophy is always to provide sustainable productivity to our clients, and one avenue for this is an add-on solution to our mining customers’ existing processing

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