BATEMAN’s Minerals & Metals Division
Bateman Project Holding Limited’s (BATEMAN’s) Minerals
& Metals Division provides comprehensive project services, applying
process technology and in-house know-how for the recovery of minerals
and metals.
A better balance in the allocation of the division’s world-wide
resources and a significantly improved commodity focus has been achieved
during the past months through a ‘business-line’ reorientation,
largely mirroring the mining industry’s recent commodity oriented
transformation. To date this has focused on the platinum group and base
metals, diamonds, coal, industrial minerals, AC and DC furnace technology,
modular plants and jigs for mineral dressing.
An overview of the process plant at Gunpowder Copper.
A project services group, Bateman Operations, has been established
to support the group’s operational activities on a worldwide basis.
This will ensure that BATEMAN continues to offer a project management
capability which can meet the challenges of difficult and remote terrain
and minimal infrastructure, usually associated with the exploitation
of mineral wealth. The Operations Division also serves BATEMAN’s
operations in other industries such as oil, gas and energy, chemicals
and fertilisers, and engineered technologies. Concurrently, upgraded
systems are being introduced to ensure standardised reporting across
all offices and sophisticated up-to-date project control.
The services offered by the reorganised Mineral & Metals Division
will continue to be available from BATEMAN’s operational offices;
in America through Bateman Engineering Inc. (Denver and Tucson), in
Australia through Bateman Engineering Pty Ltd (Perth, Sydney and Brisbane)
and in South Africa, through Bateman Titaco Limited in Parktown, Johannesburg,
and Bateman Engineering Limited (formerly Bateman Minerals & Industrial)
in Boksburg, Gauteng. In addition the division is represented in the
BATEMAN offices in Beer Sheva, Haifa, London, Mexico, Moscow and Vancouver.
The investment in and implementation of effective state-of-the-art
technology and know-how plays a key role in BATEMAN’s role as a
reliable process solutions provider. BATEMAN has an impressive portfolio
of differentiated niche technologies for minerals processing. Solvent
extraction technology includes the BATEMAN pulsed column, the patented
BATEMANT(an enhanced reverse-flow mixer settler) and the IMI mixer and
compact settler. BATEMAN technologies are being used at Bulong, Gunpowder,
Olympic Dam and Sanyati. The Minbac Bactech biole aching technology
is part ofthe Beaconsfield gold plant and cobalt electrowinning designs
developed jointly by BATEMAN and MINTEK are used to recover cobalt at
Bulong and Kasese. In the ferroalloys industry, BATEMAN’s DC open
arc (in collaboration with Mintek and GLPS) and AC submerged arc furnace
technology is finding increasing applications in the ferroalloys industry.
The Apic air-pulsed jig has become the preferred technology for the
recovery of metal from slag dumps, e.g. as at Tubatse Ferrochrome and
Transalloys. Modular and transportable process plants for on-land and
marine processing of diamonds, coal, etc. have served the industry well
for many years.
New processes which are now being marketed actively include the AUGMENT
technology, a resin based process for the recovery of copper, gold and
cyanide; the ATS (ammonium thiosulphate technology) for leaching low
grade refractory gold ores; and the EMR (microwave) technology for the
treatment of refractory and carbonaceous ores.
For more information contact enquiries@batemanengineering.com.
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