BATEMAN DMS Plant Supplied to India
 
A 1 t/h BATEMAN dense media separation (DMS) plant has been commissioned at the Panna Diamond Mine in Madhya Pradesh province in central India. The mine can now treat prospecting samples taken from outlying areas where there are extensive secondary alluvial deposits.

Owned by National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), the Panna mine is the only diamond mine in India. The new DMS plant was built and factory tested in South Africa before being shipped to India and erected alongside the mine’s main process plant. NMDC consulted with BATEMAN before designing and supplying the front-end crushers and conveying equipment for the prospecting circuit.

During the ten-day commissioning phase the BATEMAN team ran a sample of the main plant’s tailings through the plant; up to 98% of the feed was separated for rejection, leaving only a small sample to be hand-sorted.

A representative of NMDC’s Research and Development Department in Hyderabad made a special visit to the mine to attend the ownership transfer ceremony.

Since 1994, a BATEMAN50t/h module has been used by the mine to process all of the run-of-mine (ROM) material obtained from its large kimberlite pipe. A BATEMAN team will also commission another 50 t/h module to double-up on Panna’s current production.

For more details, please contact Robert Abate, BATEMAN General Manager, Modular Plants, on +27-11-899-2238, or email modular@batemanengineering.com.

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