Modern Mining October 2024

ELECTRA MINING AFRICA REVIEW

Weir’s Mill Circuit University ensures that technical staff skill levels are keeping up with technology.

Photographs courtesy of Fluor

Weir excites Electra Mining visitors with ESG and AI solutions The latest technology to drive sustainability in mining – while achieving the ‘sweet spot’ in performance – was showcased by Weir at the recent Electra Mining Africa exhibition near Johannesburg. T his sustainability focus underpins the company’s support for its customers’ strategic environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, according to Weir’s Process and Products Director, Mufaro Muzvondiwa. The event

lower power consumption. Water conservation was also a growing issue for many of the mining visitors to Weir’s exhibition stand, especially in water-scarce countries like South Africa. He points out there is more awareness that mines today must increasingly balance their water demands with those of communities and other local stakeholders. “This also created plenty of interest in our CAVEX 2 hydrocyclones, which offer up to 30% additional capacity and improved separation efficiency, while delivering water and energy savings in mineral processing applications,” he says. Alongside the ESG focus, visitors at Electra Mining Africa were as usual looking for ways to optimise their processes for greater productivity, Muzvondiwa explains. This is where Weir’s digital tools are playing a crucial role in facilitating smart mining. “The only constant on mines is change; they are dynamic operations, with constantly changing geological and metallurgical conditions,” he says. “This makes it vital that the performance of our equipment is being continuously optimised – by

was another important opportunity to display Weir’s leading role in helping mines to reduce consumption of energy and water – and to reduce carbon emissions. “At Electra Mining Africa, we were able to remind visitors how seriously we take sustainability across all our products,” says Muzvondiwa. “We displayed our WARMAN pumps with innovative WRT impeller and throatbush combination – for improved hydraulic profiles, reduced turbulence, extended wear performance and lower power consumption.” He notes that, while Weir’s WRT® upgrade for WARMAN® pumps is not new to the market, many visitors were still discovering the value that this technology could deliver on their operations. The WRT® parts are retrofittable in the WARMAN® AH® range of horizontal slurry pumps and delivers improved hydraulic profiles, reduced turbulence, extended wear performance and

Mufaro Muzvondiwa, Process and Products Director at Weir.

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