Modern Mining June 2022

Multotec’s ground-breaking pulping chute at a diamond operation in Botswana.

Multotec has fully-fledged companies in Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and Ghana. we have the facilities to provide training where nec essary. Our training initiatives are targeted at our staff, our customers and the local partners. We’re achieving genuine skills transfer.” He adds that Multotec Botswana is able to under take light steel fabrication and assembly, making for much faster delivery and installation times. Multotec Botswana offers Multotec’s full range of products including screen media solutions, cyclones, magnetic separators, samplers, centrifuges, mill and scrubber linings and wear linings. It has been respon sible for some innovative installations in Botswana, including a pulping chute at a diamond mining operation. The pulping chute, a ground-breaking development by Multotec, replaces the traditional rotary scrubber in the ore processing circuit and significantly reduces energy and maintenance costs. The achievements of Multotec’s Botswana com pany have been mirrored in Mozambique, where Multotec has operated a branch in Tete since 2011. It mainly caters to the coal mines around Tete, the mineral sands operation at Moma in the north-east and graphite operations in the north of the country. Multotec Mozambique recently reinforced its status in the country when it was awarded an additional two-year field service contract by a prominent coal mine in Tete for wear lining services. The project includes the supply and installation of wear-resistant material, preventive and corrective maintenance work on all wear-resistant equipment, and refurbish ment of all the classification cyclones on site. In Zambia, Multotec’s subsidiary is located in the mining town of Chingola and is geared to supplying

Multotec provided an innovative hydrocyclone solution for a safe and cost effective tailings storage facility at a large copper mine in Zambia.

Multotec’s hammer samplers lauded by the COO of a bauxite mining operation in Guinea.

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