Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine concentrator plant, Rustenburg, RSA.

Impala Platinum Limited -
Refineries, Springs, RSA

Modikwa, UG2 concentrator,
Northern Province, RSA.

BATEMAN has designed, engineered, procured and construction-managed process facilities for most primary platinum group metal (PGM) producers worldwide: Rasimone, Potgietersrust, Impala UG2 and EMPR, Hartley, Western Platinum, Stillwater and Anglo's Waterval, Modikwa and PMR projects. We are also the only independent contractor to have successfully installed all types of PGM process plants: concentrators, smelters and precious metals refineries.

• Ore handling and preparation

• Comminution - Crushing, rod and ball milling, autogenous and semi-autogenous milling

• Classification - Hydrocyclones and screens

• Preconcentration - Dense media and gravity separation

• Flotation - Flash, conventional, tank and column cells

• Dewatering - Conventional and high rate thickeners, vacuum and pressure filters and driers

• Bulk materials handling - Belt, chain and pneumatic conveying systems

• Sulphide oxidation - Roasting, microwaves and bacterial leaching

• Smelting - Submerged-arc, DC-arc and fuelled furnaces

• Converting - Peirce-Smith, top blown and submerged lance vessels

• Dust and gas collection - Bag filters, scrubbers and electrostatic precipitators

• Matte handling - Granulation and atomisation

• Leaching - Atmospheric, moderate and high pressure

• Solvent extraction - Using BATEMAN pulsed columns and reverse flow settlers

• Electrowinning

• PGM recovery - Drying, leaching, purification, metallisation and salt purification

Flexible contract structuring accommodates projects large and small, e.g. reimbursable, EPCM, lump-sum, fixed-fee or joint ventures. BATEMAN also has finance facilitation capabilities.

BATEMAN - our in-house technology and design capability
can be seen in more than 3 000 successful projects worldwide.