Impala awards UG2 ore-separation project 

Impala Platinum Limited, Mineral Processes, has awarded BATEMAN subsidiary Bateman Engineering Limited, RSA, the UG2ore-separation project. The project, located 25 km Northwest of Rustenburg, RSA and covered by a lump-sum turnkey contract valued at about R100M, will take one year to complete.

This is primarily a brown-fields project which includes some new plant. The objective is to upgrade and increase the capacity and efficiency of the ore separation plant used to concentrate platinum-group metals from run-of-mine-ore (ROM) from the UG2reef, one of the reefs in the area containing platinum group metals.

To achieve this the project will provide additional ROM storage and the primary mills will be converted to a fully autogenous grinding circuit. A pebble crushing and screening plant will be introduced together with classifying screens to separate the high- and low-

grade ore streams. One existing secondary mill will be converted to grind the low-grade product and a new low-grade flotation plant will be installed. The existing flotation plant will be upgraded to handle the flotation of the high-grade material. Materials-handling equipment will be installed to move the material around the circuit and provision has been made for dust-extraction in he form of bag filters. Pumps and piping will be supplied to handle tailings as a result of the increased plant throughput.

BATEMAN is the main contractor and will undertake the whole project, from design to engineering, procurement, erection and commissioning.

More details may be obtained from: Steve Burks, Managing Director, Bateman Metals, on +27-11-899-2756 or
email pgm@batemanengineering.com