Blue Ridge PGE Project, Blaauwbank Farm, South Africa

Aquarius Platinum's Blue Ridge project is situated on the Blaauwbank farm, about 30km south-east of Groblersdal, on the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), South Africa. ... Ridge Mining started exploration work on the project in 2001 and completed a feasibility study at the end of 2005. Mine development, estimated to cost $170m, began in January ...

ball mill at platinum mines

Ball Mill At Platinum Mines - gstours-brackenheim.de. ball mill at platinum mines Ball mill. A typical type of fine grinder is the ball mill.A slightly inclined or horizontal rotating cylinder is partially filled with balls, usually stone or metal, which grind material to the necessary fineness by friction and impact with the tumbling balls.

Mill Lining Installations, Removal and Maintenance

A successful mill shutdown can be measured by timely completion and zero harm. Removal and change out of worn liners and lifters as well as essential maintenance on existing mill lining is a job for a skilled professional team. "It is well known that using a mill relining provider can save up to 40% of downtime for scheduled mill reline works."

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Braking the Worlds Largest Ball Mills

Twiflex modular brakes are providing up to 35 MNm of total braking torque on two 8 meter ball mills, which are part of South Africa's and probably the world's biggest platinum concentrator, at Anglo Platinum's Mogalakwena (previously PPRust) mine near Mokopane. The new concentrator expands milling capacity by 600,000 tons per month, producing …

North Bay Resources Announces First Gold Concentrate at …

The run-of-mine ore was crushed in a ball mill to minus 60 mesh and run over a gravity recovery table resulting in two concentrate streams at approximately 10x concentration of gold with assay ...

The world's ten largest platinum mines

The brownfield mine produced an estimated 172.96 thousand ounces of platinum in 2023. The expected mine closure date is 2041. Buy the profile here. 10. Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine. The Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine is an underground mine situated in North West, South Africa. Owned by Impala Platinum …

The extractive metallurgy of South Africa's …

metals (PGM's). These ores include platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, (the PGM's) as well as nickel, copper and …

Tharisa gears up for Karo open pit platinum

South African chrome and PGMs miner Tharisa is gearing up for its Karo open pit platinum mining project in Zimbabwe. The company now owns 70% of Karo Mining Holdings, with 30% held by …

Ball Mills

In all ore dressing and milling Operations, including flotation, cyanidation, gravity concentration, and amalgamation, the Working Principle is to crush and grind, often with rod mill or ball mill, the ore in order to liberate the minerals. In the chemical and process industries, grinding is an important step in preparing raw materials for …

Characterizing the behaviour of platinum group minerals …

As an example, GRPGM for platinum (Pt) in the ball mill-cyclone circulating load was about 80%. The cumulative selection functions of Pt and palladium (Pd) were ca. 1.3 times higher than the solids for size fractions above 212 μm, which moderated their buildup in the closed circuit, but were ca. 60% that of the solids below 212 μm which ...

Equinox targets May first gold at Greenstone

Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE-AM: EQX) says it's on track to produce first gold at the C$1.2 billion Greenstone project in northern Ontario next month after starting ore processing this week.

Braking the World's Largest Ball Mills

world, two 8m diameter by 11.7m long gearless ball mills, both rated at 17.5 MW have also been supplied. These are the biggest ball mills yet supplied for a platinum mining industry application in South Africa and are also among the biggest anywhere in the world. With each ball mill drum having a monumental total inertia of

How is Platinum mined? | Full Guide to Platinum Production …

Platinum extraction begins with the mining of ore from the Earth's crust, a task that often involves deep underground mines. Due to platinum's dense location within certain geological formations, extracting this metal is labor-intensive and requires advanced mining techniques.

GE Motor Technology to Drive Mexico's Largest Ball Mill Copper Mine

The site is Latin America's largest ball mill operation. Grupo Mexico will use GE's advanced synchronous motor technology to add 84 megawatts (MW) of power at six Buenavista ball mills.

The role of ball mills in platinum mining and processing

- Increased Efficiency: Ball mills efficiently grind and liberate platinum minerals, resulting in higher extraction rates and improved overall efficiency in the platinum mining process. …

Marikana Platinum Mine, Rustenburg, South Africa

It includes 30 run of mine (ROM) semi-autogenous mills and a smelter with two 37mw absorbed arc electric furnaces. ... Production at the South African platinum mine. As of June 2012, the mine's PGM attributable production was 51,369oz, which represents 12% of the group's production for the 2012 financial year. This was a decline …

Ascot begins milling at its Premier gold project in BC

The Premier mill was rebuilt in 1989 and mining resumed until the project was put on care and maintenance in 1996. Mining of the Red Mountain deposit will begin in year three, and then from the ...

Copper Mountain begins commissioning third ball mill

The additional equipment will help bring mill throughput up to 45,000 t/d from 40,000 t/d.

Ball Mills

Ball Mills. Ball mills have been the primary piece of machinery in traditional hard rock grinding circuits for 100+ years. They are proven workhorses, with discharge mesh sizes from ~40M to <200M. Use of a …

Nickel Shaw Project, Canada

Mining method. The Nickel Shaw Project will be developed as a conventional open-pit mine using drill and blast, load and haul methods. Mining operations will be carried out maintaining a strip ratio of 1.9:1 and using 10m benches. The current mining schedule involves two years of pre-stripping followed by 19 years of mining.

Obakeng Rasogo

Primary ball mill & hig mill processor Impala bafokeng platinum mines Sep 2023 ... Mineral Processor Maseve Royal bafokeng platinum mines Sep 2020 - Present 3 years 7 months. Maseve Concentrator plant Truck dispatching Pressure filter operation Concentrator thickener handling Good housekeeping..Primary Milling and tailing …

Bathopele: benchmark for platinum mining

Most of the country's platinum mines are renowned for their difficult working conditions. Narrow veins, uneven surfaces, tricky geology, and at times atrocious ground conditions, await miners as ...

Minerals | Free Full-Text | The Effect of HPGR and …

Comparative high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) and cone crusher pilot-scale tests were conducted using Upper Group 2 (UG2) platinum-bearing ore in order to determine the impact of micro-cracks in HPGR products toward energy requirements in ball mills and the degree of liberation. The ball mill was fed with HPGR and cone crusher …

Characterizing the behaviour of platinum group minerals in a …

This paper introduces a methodology to determine the gravity-recoverable platinum group minerals (GRPGMs) of a stream, and behaviour of platinum group …

MINE SITE ASSESSMENT PUBLIC SUMMARY REPORT

The Unki Platinum Mine (Unki) is an operational mine located on the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe, at Makomisa farm, 15 km east of the town of Shurugwi in the Midlands ... The Unki concentrator has a primary and secondary mill, which feed in the milled material to a flotation circuit. A filter concentrate cake is an end -product which is collected at ...

Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill …

DOI: 10.1016/0301-7516(81)90007-7 Corpus ID: 93055970; Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill at the Pine Point Mines concentrator @article{Finch1981ModellingMS, title={Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill at the Pine Point Mines concentrator}, author={James A. Finch and Juan …

Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill …

Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill at the Pine Point Mines concentrator. Author links open overlay panel J.A. Finch, J. Ramirez-Castro. Show more ... GRPGM for platinum (Pt) in the ball mill-cyclone circulating load was about 80%. The cumulative selection functions of Pt and palladium (Pd) were ca. 1.3 times …

Major Mines & Projects | Mogalakwena Mine

• Converting the A & B-Section primary autogenous mills to ball mills. A second drive will be added to each of the ball mills to increase the installed power per mill, which will …