New Flotation Lab Circuit Will Cut Test Turnaround Time
Eriez Flotation Division (EFD) has commissioned a fully automated, four-stage lab-scale column circuit for flotation testing on sulfide and industrial minerals. Operating parameters such as air flow rate, wash water flow rate, reagent addition rates and pH level are regulated using a programmable logic controller (PLC). The flotation circuit can be altered to accommodate multiple circuit configurations ranging from one (i.e. rougher) to four (i.e. rougher-scavenger-cleaner-cleaner) unit operations, dependent upon the characteristics of the feed ore. The circuit is also capable of incorporating recirculating loads. The automated circuit can be utilized to conduct steady-state column flotation tests at feed rates of up to 15 kg/h.
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Software Improves Change Management Integrity
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) recently announced the introduction of documentation and change management software that it claims will help its customers’ industrial control system integrity. Honeywell Trace replaces paper-based records and spreadsheets with an automated solution designed to minimize errors due to changes in configurations, improve worker productivity, and simplify asset management by providing a single integrated view of complex system interactions.
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Program Offers ‘Breakthrough’ Ball Mill Modeling
Metcom Technologies describes its Streamline program as a “breakthrough” ball mill modeling application that uses Functional Performance Analysis to carry out circuit performance improvements.
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Gekko, Rockwell Automation to Develop Metallurgical Accounting System
Gekko Systems and Rockwell Automation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop software solutions that will assist mining customers across the globe to account for metal content in the various stages of ore processing plants and provide the analytical capability to audit and improve operating performance. The metallurgical accounting program is currently in development and pilot stage.
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Metso to Increase Screening Media Production Capacity
Metso is expanding its global manufacturing capacity for rubber screening media used in minerals processing by investing in three new injection presses. The presses will be installed at Metso’s facilities in Australia, India and Sweden by early 2018.
The company said the EUR 1.7-million investment will significantly increase its global rubber screening media manufacturing capacity. Demand for its screening media has grown in the mining segment after the introduction of 1 x 1-ft (305- x 305-millimeter) modular screening media, Trellex 305PS, in 2016, according to Metso.
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Partnership Will Commercialize Real-time Assay Technology
Australian research organization CSIRO is partnering with Chrysos Corp. to bring to market its PhotonAssay X-ray gold detection technology, setting its sights on a slice of the $1-billion global gold assay business.
CSIRO’s lead inventor of the technology, Dr. James Tickner, said this new approach fills an important market gap by providing real-time information for mine operators. Tickner also is Chrysos’ chief technology officer.
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