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Screening Media

Leading mineral processing screening media technology solutions, from panels and sieve bends to fully optimised composite

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Spiral Concentrators

Increase mineral separation efficiency with spiral concentrator separators used across the world in extraction of gold, iron ore, coal, platinum & more.

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Cyclones

Find your ideal match in a complete range of off-the-shelf & customised cyclones, from classification & dense medium to cyclone distributors.

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Wear Solutions

All the rubber, composite & ceramic wear liners you need for chutes, hoppers, pipelines & transfer points in your mineral processing plant.

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Floatation Wear Components

Complete range of wet & dry end wear components for any flotation machine, cell type & size, at your local Multotec branch.

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Mill & Scrubber Linings

Maximise wear protection & increase mineral grinding plant efficiency with rubber and steel liners for any ball mill, SAG mill, AG mill or scrubber.

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Solid/Liquid Separation

Enhance dewatering and ion exchange applications in your mineral processing plant with our centrifuges, polishing filters & ion exchange technologies.

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Conveyor System Solutions

Increase conveyor uptime with all the parts you need, incl. pulley lagging, rubber loading points, fasteners & cleaners.

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Slurry Pumps

Ensure robust, reliable mineral processing plant performance and lower your energy consumption with our tough industrial & slurry pumps.

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Manufacturing Capabilities

Wherever you are in the world, our experts help you optimise your mineral processing plant for greater efficiency, competitiveness and profitability.

In 100 countries, on 6 continents, Multotec's manufacturing centres of competence meet the highest global and local manufacturing standards. Using our extensive experience and application knowledge, state-of-the-art manufacturing and continuous R&D, we continue to design and manufacture top-quality, customised and application-specific mineral beneficiation plants.

Our cutting-edge design & engineering tools include:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Computer Aided Drawing
• Trajectory Modelling

Benefits:

• Continuous Improvement
• Quality & Safety
• Optimised recovery
• Reduced downtime
• Enhanced production

Technical Capabilities

Multotec's extensive product offering is supplemented with our delivery of optimum technical solutions and the highest levels of support. We provide technical support from assistance in the selection of appropriate equipment through to delivery accuracy.

We offer high levels of application knowledge and technical expertise, brought to the group by our highly qualified and technically proficient personnel, with years of experience in the mineral processing industry.

Our highly skilled and qualified engineers, all experts in their specific fields, are responsible for conducting mineral processing plant audits and implementing customised and application-specific solutions.

We offer:

• Mineral processing equipment design & audits
• Mineral processing plant optimisation
• Equipment retrofitting
• Specialised design capabilities

Benefits:

• Optimised applications & processes
• Increased process efficiency
• Identification of problem areas
• Reduced overheads, increased uptime and increased production rates
• New information contributes to innovative product development

Our Plants in Action

Get to know some of our featured projects that uniquely optimised the processing power of our customers’ mineral processing plants.

Case Study: Multotec expertise cuts wear at Phosphate Plant

A phosphate mine in Morocco is benefitting from Multotec’s scrubber liner expertise and extensive experience in mineral processing plants.

The mine had been facing a serious challenge, with the plant’s existing head plates wearing out at double the rate of the shell plates. As a result, the mineral processing plant required excessive maintenance shutdowns during the life of the liners and was incurring significant associated extra costs.

With the installation of Multotec’s scrubber liners, measuring 6.5 m in diameter and 11 m in length, the mineral processing plant was optimised to increase uptime and reduce costs.

Since installation, the liners have been performing in line with the customer’s expectations and are expected to have a lifespan of over five years.

Sustainable Plant Maintenance

At Multotec, we aim to deliver the most efficient and sustainable mineral processing plant maintenance, with minimal downtime and optimal performance, to reduce your overall maintenance costs.

Multotec helps you develop appropriate budgets based on a strategic management approach and, in turn, balances your production targets and maintenance requirements.

This balance is mainly about the relative authority of the production and maintenance functions within an organisation. When power is unbalanced and financial decisions disproportionately favour the production side of the business, maintenance requirements may be neglected. Ultimately, this imbalance can lead to a shortened plant lifespan, decreased plant reliability and long-term disruption to production.

With a strategic budget and maintenance plan, Multotec helps customers utilise their mineral processing plants to full capacity without damaging productivity, lifespan or reliability.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is a mineral processing plant?

   A mineral processing plant recovers or extracts minerals through a range of processes, including comminution, sizing, gravity concentration, magnetic separation and more. Multotec offers the expertise, equipment and processes needed to deliver plants of this kind, and with a uniquely optimised process, these plants can achieve greater efficiency and improved recovery.

2. What are the four main types of mineral processing?

   Multotec specialises in all types of mineral processing, from comminution – particle size reduction, including crushing and grinding – to sizing, concentration and dewatering. Sizing refers to the separation of particle sizes by screening or classification, while dewatering involves solid-liquid separation. These processes are central to the performance of mineral processing plants and mineral beneficiation plants.

3. Why is mineral processing important?

   Mineral processing is important because it separates valuable minerals and metals from waste rock. It is the stage of ore treatment after mining that produces a more concentrated material for extractive metallurgy. To deliver real value, however, this processing must also be completed efficiently, on time and on budget within a mineral processing plant.

4. What is sizing in mineral processing?

   Sizing is the separation of minerals according to particle size during raw material handling and mineral processing. The simplest sizing process takes place through screening, where particles pass through one or more screens to separate material by size. This is a key stage in many mineral separation plant and mineral processing plant applications.

5. What is recovery in mineral processing?

   In mineral processing, some of the desired mineral resource can be lost at different stages of the process, with some operations experiencing greater losses than others. Recovery is used to measure how much valuable mineral is successfully recovered. A plant’s recovery percentage is calculated by dividing the mass of recovered product sent for final disposal or further treatment by the mass of raw material fed into the plant. Improving recovery is a key goal of mineral processing plant optimisation.