Special Projects - Track Record
A few project profiles are provided:
Sulphuric acid production plant for Ambatovy Nickel
Bateman Engineering has been awarded an EP contract by Dynatec Madagascar SA (DMSA) worth approximately US$100 million to provide a 5,500 t/day sulphur-burning sulphuric acid facility for the utilities section of the Ambatovy Nickel project.
Reagent-plant upgrade for Impala Platinum
Bateman Engineering has upgraded the depressant-dosing circuit in the reagent plant at Impala Platinum Ltd’s platinum concentrator near Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa.
Detail design of Rhino Minerals’ andalusite plant
Bateman Engineering has provided Rhino Minerals (Pty) Ltd with a complete engineering and design package for a greenfields crushing and washing plant at its Segorong andalusite-processing facility near Penge in the Limpopo Province, RSA.
New lining technology upgrades the flash furnace at Olympic Dam
Bateman Engineering has successfully upgraded the copper flash smelter at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam operation, where mining, smelting and refining produces 200,000 t of copper annually, with by-products such as uranium, gold and silver. The furnace produces blister copper from a feed of copper concentrate.
Rebuilt MCC at Rhino Minerals’ Thabazimbi andalusite plant
Bateman Engineering has rebuilt the motor-control centre (MCC) at Rhino Minerals (Pty) Ltd’s andalusite-processing plant at Thabazimbi in the west of the Limpopo province, RSA. This is the largest producer of andalusite in the country. Rhino Minerals is part of Imerys South Africa (Pty) Ltd, a local subsidiary of the Imerys Group of France.
New
furnace feed system for Tubatse Ferrochrome
Bateman Engineering has upgraded the furnace feed system at Billiton's
Tubatse Ferrochrome plant in Steelpoort, Mpumalanga, RSA. The previous
feed system comprised a number of conveyors feeding through the furnace
roof directly into the furnace, while the new feed system consists
of a conveyor feeding raw material to a new storage bin at a rate
of 150 t/h.
Dust-collection
system installed at Rand Refinery
Bateman Engineering has completed a R2 million lump-sum turnkey project
for Rand Refinery Ltd to upgrade an existing dust-collection system
by the addition of a new scrubber. The objective was to optimise the
gold recovery from the particulate matter in the off-gases from the
furnaces and minimise pollution of the environment.
BATEMAN
awarded NORAM's sulphuric-acid technology license
Bateman Engineering N.V. (BATEMAN) has been granted a license by
Noram Engineering and Constructors (NORAM of Vancouver, Canada), making
it the exclusive licensee for NORAM's sulphuric-acid plant technologies
in the sub-Saharan area.
Metal-recovery
plant upgraded for MultiServ
BATEMAN has completed a lump-sum turnkey project for MultiServ South
Africa to upgrade a plant recovering traces of stainless-steel from
furnace slag at the Columbus Stainless Steel plant in Middelburg,
RSA. MultiServ is a division of the worldwide Harsco group.
Extracting
PGMs from chromite tailings at Kroondal -
a world first
The new chromite-tailings retreatment plant for the recovery of platinum-group
metals (PGMs) at Aquarius Platinum's Kroondal mine near Rustenburg,
South Africa, designed, manufactured and erected by BATEMAN, is thought
to be the first PGM-flotation plant in the world to process chrome-mine
tailings.
Multi-skilled
special-project teams
BATEMAN has launched a new business line, Bateman Special Projects,
which will undertake special projects in the minerals, mining and
industrial market sectors. The concept was applied successfully during
the past few years in its Small Projects unit and has been expanded
to cover a wider market.
Chrome
tailings-treatment plant for Aquarius
Bateman Africa (Pty) Ltd's small-projects team (previously known
as Tawana (Pty) Ltd) has completed the first phase of a project for
the establishment of the RKI chrome tailings-treatment plant for Aquarius
Platinum (Africa) Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd in Kroondal, near Rustenburg,
RSA. This phase involved the design, upfront engineering and determination
of the capital costs.
