Toll treatment service takes off!
 
Currently the service is centred around the partners’ considerable jigging technology experience, acquired over the past decade, in recovering alloys and metals from slag and waste dumps and in the upgrading of coal and ores. To this has been added the DC open-arc furnace technology for the processing of fine ores and metals and opportunities are being sought for the pulsed column solvent extraction process.

The Atoll service makes available a complete menu, from feasibility studies and raising finance, through design and construction to maintenance and operation. Clients may select any one or a combination of the elements. An option for clients with limited borrowing capacity or who do not wish to raise the necessary finances, is that the plant can be owned by Atoll through a toll fee reimbursive arrangement. Alternatively, owners of existing jigging plants may simply contract plant operation out to Atoll. The APIC Jig, developed in collaboration with joint venture partner, Mintek, has been shown to be effective and efficient in dealing with both coarse and fine material. It can recover alloys and metals from slag dumps and upgrade coal and manganese and iron ores.

Bateman Titaco has successfully designed, built and supplied five large APIC Jigs and nine smaller ones in the past two years. Of these a large plant built recently near Witbank, RSA, is recovering ferro-alloys in terms of an Atoll toll-treatment arrangement with Transalloys Pty Ltd and two smaller jigs are treating slag for Hernic Ferrochrome and Palmiet Ferrochrome. Smaller units are also operating in USA, Russia and India. A number of other prospects are also in the pipeline. This toll treatment service is relatively new on the market and is generating much interest.

For more details please contact Basil Smidt, Chief Executive, Bateman Titaco, at basils@tbateman.co.za.

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