Modern Mining November 2017

DIAMONDS

to increase production significantly.” While in South Africa recently (and with the addition of a sorting system at Tshikapa in mind), Häggkvist, together with Sven-Erik Zachrisson, the Chairman of Africa Resources, and Clement Leta, visited an XRT installation in Lesotho being handled by Imilingo. Thus far, Imilingo has built three plants for diamond-mining clients and has also installed an XRT sorting solution at a tungsten project in Zimbabwe. Prinsloo himself has extensive experience in the diamond field and prior to joining Imilingo in 2015 worked for DRA. While with DRA, he was the lead project engineer on Karowe phase 2, which saw the installation of several XRT sorters at the mine, and was also closely involved with the design of the recovery section – housing a 2,4 m XRT sorting machine – at Stornoway’s Renard dia- mond mine in Quebec, Canada. Summing up Imilingo’s approach, Prinsloo says the company looks at projects holistically. “We address the complete project lifecycle, from business concept through the study phase and into execution. We treat each proj- ect as unique and our solutions are tailored to

the characteristics of the orebody, with equip- ment being sized and specified accordingly,” he concludes. Photos of the iDredge by Charles Corbett (on behalf of Imilingo)

Another view of the iDredge showing the Dragflow submersible dredge pump supplied by Tsurumi Pumps Africa.

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