Jigging - Track Record

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First jig for iron ore sector

Bateman India, part of the Bateman Engineering Group, has been contracted by an iron ore producer and exporter, located in the Hospet / Bellary iron ore sector of India, to supply a 2.5 m wide, three-compartment long Bateman-Apic Jig for an iron ore project near Hospet, in the Karnataka state in India, 11 km from the world famous heritage site, Hampi. This is the first jig to be supplied to the iron ore sector by Bateman Engineering.

Confidently predicting jigging performance

Bateman Engineering N.V. has developed a technique for predicting the process performance of industrial-scale jigs by mathematically modelling test results from laboratory-scale air-pulsed jigs.

Rising demand for Bateman-APIC Jigs

Intensive global marketing of the Bateman-APIC jigging technology has resulted in contracts for three jigging plants during 2005, two in India and one in Europe. These jigs all incorporate the Bateman-APIC under-bed air-pulsed jigging technology.

BATEMAN's APIC Jig celebrates 10 years in SA

June 2005 marks 10 years since the first testwork on the applicability of jigging to South African iron ore was carried out by BATEMAN in joint venture with Mintek, the South African metallurgical research institute. The mark one version of BATEMAN's APIC Jig mobile plant was commissioned in June 1995, based on technology from FCB of France, but specially adapted to jigging applications in South Africa, and tested on iron ore (both lumpy and medium sized).

BATEMAN Apic jigs process coal in India

BATEMAN is actively expanding its jigging business in India and several orders for Bateman Apic coal-processing jigs have been received during the past year from that part of the world.

BATEMAN jig for iron-ore processing

Tests conducted at the Sishen Iron Ore Mine in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa, have proved that the incorporation of the enhanced technology of a new fines gate has overcome the problem experienced worldwide in the separation of fine ferrous ores. The new jig gate minimises the back mixing of fine concentrate with reject before discharge. BATEMAN can therefore offer a leading-edge solution to the processing and upgrading of ferrous ores using jigs.

APIC jigging technology

BATEMAN has now added the APIC under-bed air- pulsed jig technology to its portfolio of wholly- owned technologies, having completed the licence period with the French supplier, the Fives- Lille Group (FCB).

A PIC jig technology is one of the most efficient for gravity separation. BATEMAN, through Atoll, its joint venture with Mintek, has installed 30 jigs since 1997 in South Africa, as well as internationally in France, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, India, the USA, Russia and Asia Pacific.

Large capacity APIC jig commissioned

The APIC jig unveiled by a BATEMAN-Mintek joint venture in November 2002 is the largest modular unit built so far in South Africa. Called the M9 APIC jig, it is designed specifically for separating difficult products that require longer residence times – a critical parameter for the efficient stratification and separation of materials of very similar densities.

Toll treating slags, wastes, coal and ores

Atoll offers technologies enabling the production of saleable products from natural or waste products under a toll-treatment arrangement. Atoll (Apic Toll Treatment (Pty) Ltd) is a joint venture between Bateman Titaco and Mintek.

Jigging, used to recover alloys and metals from slag and waste and upgrade coal and ores, is Atoll’s core technology. This technology consistently produces an on-grade saleable metal product with recoveries of greater than 95 % when processing material in the size range 1 mm to 40 mm. Below this size range, product grades of 90 % are achieved with recoveries of up to
70 %.

 BATEMAN technologies could help Thabazimbi

The Apic Jig installed at the Thabazimbi iron-ore mine. Kumba Resources have conducted pilot-plant tests at the Thabazimbi iron-ore mine in RSA’s North West Province aimed at extending the ore reserves needed for the production of steel. The tests involved the use of a BATEMAN Apic jig and a Bateman Ultrasep to beneficiate the banded iron stone which could not be treated previously. The mine has large amounts of this material on its discard dumps and access to future high-grade resources also requires mining through such banded-ore deposits.

 The APIC jig works for coal

Test work on South African coals, initiated by Bateman Titaco and its scientific partners, supports the view that jigs are a most effective and efficient means of destoning coals. Significantly, underbed pulsated jigs, which combine large capacities and advanced controls, were particularly effective when processing minus 150 mm coal.

Ferro-alloy recovery at Transalloys

A plant for the recovery of ferro-alloys has been built near Witbank in Mpumulanga, RSA, by Titaco Projects (Pty) Limited, a BATEMAN subsidiary, together with its associates Mintek and First National Bank (FNB). The plant is being used to process a 7M tonne slag dump owned by Transalloys Pty Ltd.

Titaco to toll-treat slag dump for Transalloys

Titaco Projects (Pty) Ltd, a BATEMAN subsidiary, together with its associates Mintek and First National Bank (FNB), has been contracted by Transalloys Pty Ltd to recover the ferro-alloys contained in a 7M tonne slag dump located near Witbank in Mpumulanga, RSA. This is the first ‘own-and-operate’ arrangement entered into by Titaco.

APIC jig - leading jigging technology

The APIC jig is an air-pulsed gravity separator able to treat mineral and metal particles up to 80 mm in size, depending on density, and coal up to 150 mm. This significant advance in the capability of jigging method to separate particles of different densities is the result of a joint development by TITACO (a BATEMAN subsidiary) and MINTEK