Mining Equipment That Is Simple, Clean and Efficient: the signature of tomorrow’s plants

Mine Equipment That Is Simple, Clean and Efficient – the signature of tomorrow’s modular mineral processing plants

Have you ever walked through the set-up of a large minerals processing plant and seen obvious flaws like mis-routed piping, stairways climbing over and around obstacles, etc? Chances are that it was also a mess with slurry all over the place and puddles here and there.

Apart from the difficulty of working with and in such an environment, you can bet your bottom dollar that there is a real cost to be paid for this, because inefficient engineering means inefficient operation.

Nothing is perfect, but we at APT are constantly striving to get closer and closer to it. APT’s plants incorporate surge capacity at critical points and planning for overflows, should they happen. Logical flow is as important as flow logic, carefully planning routings from the 2-D flowsheet to the 3-D installation.

Ergonomics, ease of maintenance and, and yes, a good looking plant are all objectives of the process. If it looks good it is invariably pleasant to work in and believe it or not, studies have shown that a pleasant environment results in higher productivity from the workers. Clean, neat and tidy unit operations are also much easier to automate, should that be required at build or in a subsequent phase. APT’s designers pay particular attention to spacial arrangement and pleasing aspect. Our plants are colourful, good looking and inviting to operate in. All plants should be functional, but APT is looking to go well beyond that to another level of operability.

Fig 1 Alluvial + Hard Rock Mine Equipment; an APT RD50 Combo plant. A clean and tidy arrangement.

 

Fig 2 APT complete (12 sector) CIL TriTank plant, extremely neat and tidy and the benefits of this design go well beyond aesthetics

Fig 3 The mine equipment shown here is the same plant as the above, here you can see an adjacent gravity tower with intensive cyanidation module in the base.

Gem Stone Recovery Plants From APT

Already well renowned for gold as well as gravity recovery of base metals, APT has designed and launched a series of plant designs for gem stone recovery.

“Gemstones have various properties that enable separation and recovery, some have a higher SG than the gangue, like diamonds and rubies and can be separated by gravity techniques. Some fluoresce and can be sorted under UV light, like diamonds, and in some cases it is down to simple eye recognition with hand sorting, like amethyst,” said CEO and chief technical adviser Kevin Peacocke.  Whatever the recovery system dictated, the first requirement is to thoroughly disintegrate the host to liberate the gem and in the process remove the fine silt and clay. The physical properties of the gems in the resulting gravel can then be utilized to the full extent to make the separation.

This first stage is typically achieved in one of APT’s renowned RG scrubbers which are legendary in breaking up tough clays as well as loose agglomerates. The deep drum design of the scrubber means that autogenous attritioning takes place and the tumbling action thoroughly cleans the surface of the gems without mechanically breaking them. Drum speed can be varied to obtain the most optimal action for each case.

The resulting slurry is then screened on the in-built trammel to recover the gem containing gravels to the oversize whilst discarding the fines. Spray jets complete the cleaning process and the gravels are ready for the next step. If the gem has a high SG, this will typically utilize a jig, and sometimes an extra jig is added to treat the coarse oversize as there may just be a few large bonus stones to be recovered.

In its simplest form the screened gravels are directed to a picking belt where practiced eyes scalp off the coloured gems, as is the case with amethyst or other silica crystal species.

 

Figure 1  APT RG200 scrubber suitable for 20tph operation 

Piloting and small scale production

Being APT, the smaller scale has not been neglected. A small scrubbing , screening and jigging plant is available for the 1-3tph scale which greatly enhances the capability of the artisanal sector. “The same unit can of course be used as a pilot plant for large operations, or as an exploration tool”, said Peacocke, who explains that a similar unit has recently been commissioned in Mozambique for this purpose.

Figure 2  APT RG30 pilot plant for 1-3tph, with jig separation

Testing

APT can test your samples through their associate laboratory Peacocke & Simpson, fully equipped to handle large bulk samples of up to one tonne.

Contact info@aptprocessing.com for more details.

Scotland Mining: Scotgold Commissioned In Record Time

Scotland mining recently took a step forward with the successful installation and commission of a pilot plant APT engineered and built for Scotgold Resources Limited, a mine located near the picturesque Scottish village of Tyndrum. Although small, the plant marks a significant milestone for the company in that actual production is envisaged. The plant was built by APT South Africa in a record time of just four weeks and even more remarkable was that assembly on site and commissioning through to operation was achieved in just two days. “This project was of significant importance to both APT and our client”, said Business Development exec Gary McFarlane who participated on site himself. “We are acutely aware, as are our clients, of the difficulty in raising capital for project funding and the demonstration of actual production even at small scale should greatly assist the process”, he said. APT produces a range of standard small plants suitable for rapid implementation for either piloting or actual production from high-grade ore bodies.

“APT is proud to have been of service to Scotgold Resources and wishes the company every success”, said McFarlane.

Starting Mining? Here's How: Everything You Need To Know!

Starting mining can at first thought seem to be a daunting process if you are entirely new to the industry, and if you do have some experience you may have an idea of what you want but require some expertise and guidance from people who are willing to share their experience and knowledge to help you advance. Here we have developed a general guide when it comes to starting mining, specifically for the small scale entrepreneur. This article is targeted at the upper oxide near surface occurences, alluvial (surface level) or elluvial deposits that would be amenable to free dig.

NOTE! This article is not intended to be a rigorous guide to mining/processing and the opinions expressed are those of the author only. APT takes no responsibility for the outcome of your project from utilizing some or all of this information.

1. What to produce?

• Establish what mineral or metal you want to produce, for example gold metal or chromite concentrate. You may already have this established because you know an area where it can be produced, but don’t rush in too early.

• Look at the potential rewards in making your decision. Look at the price now, and the trends. For example chromite today may have only a marginal price, but on internet you can see that the price curve is going up and has been doing so steadily for some time. So if it makes sense now, it should get much better with time.

• Is there an easy market for what you want to produce? How much will it cost to transport the final product to the buyer? For example a tonne of chromite concentrate will need to be bagged at the mine, trucked to a port, loaded on board, shipped to destination port and maybe even trucked to the buyer. A kilogram of gold, however, can normally be carried personally to a buying center nearby.

• Is the process well known and easy, or will you have to start something completely new? The easier to do, the less risk, but if you are up to learning the ropes a lesser known product may entail less market opposition and maybe put you ahead of the pack. For example, a deposit with fine tantalite as the target is more difficult to extract than chromite, but less people can do it.

• Are there any rules or laws in place that could get in the way? For example, there may be a ban on the export of chromite concentrates.

1. Do I have a target area?

   • The general proximity of most minerals is usually known, but the geology dictates that there will be zones of concentration and it is finding these that makes the difference between a good and a bad project. For example an erosional deposit that has collected into a depression will be far more productive than a thin occurrence on the back of a saddle. This is normally a job for an expert geologist and it is worth the time and money to seek their advice. We are not talking about a broad exploration programme here which is aimed at finding a large, new mineral deposit, but rather zoning in upon an area that is known to be productive from past production, or even your own prospecting.

   • Is there any history? Checking historical records in the local mining office will give insight to the grades they found and the production. You may also find some local knowledge from someone who once worked there. Take it all in with an open mind, you can sort out the important facts later.

   • Is there current production in the area? If there is, can you ascertain who is doing well and who is not? It is very easy to generate a Google Earth image of the area and you can then plot all the producers on it and then grade them by colour – red for the best going to blue for the worst, or diggings you can see have been abandoned. A line of red dots is a strong indicator of where you should be, especially if you can pick up some geological feature that corresponds to it. Look for the same feature some distance away that may have been displaced by a fault or an intrusion, and if there is no working there it becomes a strong target for you to explore.

2. Is this a good spot in the area?

   • Once you have a general area in mind, you will need to explore more closely to find the best spot. In small mining this is closing down to a few hundred square metres.

   • Before you can begin this process you will need to secure title to the area which can involve anything from registering claims to purchasing rights. This varies so much from country to country that it cannot be defined here, but needless to say make sure you are legal and empowered or it may all be for someone else.

   • Pinpoint exploration or prospecting can now begin in earnest, which as the first step usually involves panning soil samples or hand pulverized rocks on site. Only when you are sure you are zoned in is it worth submitting samples to a laboratory to quantify your findings. Submitting large numbers of blank samples is an expensive game, in terms of time as well as money. A simple field pulveriser and a set of pans should be good enough to achieve this target.

• The next step is to ascertain whether you can recover the target well enough in simple processing. This usually translates into gravimetric methods to minimize environmental impact. The best way to do this is to take a few hundred kilograms of as representative a sample as possible. Include what you would actually be digging in practice, but do not include random blank gangue ‘to be conservative’. You can always bring in your factors later, but for now we need the straight facts. Give the lab clear instructions that they are to test recovery with the minimum of complexity possible. They should begin with the easy steps, like scrubbing to see what is free and liberated naturally. They can then progressively crush to see what more comes out, and finally resort to ball mill grinding to get the ultimate liberation. By plotting the recovery at each stage it is obvious where the best return comes from and that is usually in the initial scrubbing stage. APT have developed a system whereby the secondary crushing of the competent rock as well as some of the milling stage are combined in wet impacting using our own proprietary RD series impactors. One normally achieves the majority of the ultimate recovery in this simple system. The Peacocke & Simpson laboratory is equipped with all of these unit operations at bench scape to test all scenarios.

• A typical test recovery result is summarized below:

• Clearly in this case the majority of the recovery comes from the scrubbing (52%), but there is definitely a worthwhile target left in the competent rock, and impacting this adds a further 27% to the recovery. Ball milling the impact gravity tails to a very fine state (75 microns) only adds a further 7% recovery, so it is unlikely that that step would be warranted.

• So in this hypothetical case the target flowsheet would look like this:

1. What sort of plant will I need when starting mining?

   • The flowsheet defines the optimal steps, but the next question is what scale? This is dictated by capital constraint, the rate one can dig and feed the ore, water availability and sometimes market capacity.

   • If it is gold you are after, the latter doesn’t arise, but just for the exercise, lets consider a tantalite case: A tantalite buyer may only want 2.5 tonnes of concentrate a month for example. So if you anticipate working 8 hrs per day, 24 days per month and the indicated recovery is 70% from an ore feed grading 0.1% Ta2O5, then the calculation looks like this: Tonnes per hour = 5tonnes/0.1%/70%/24days/8hrs = 37 tonnes per hour = 18.6 tph.

   • Back to gold. In this case market is infinite, and the scale is down to choices like resource size, mining capacity and capital. Keep things modest and conservative, there is absolutely no sense in going big out of the gate.

   • Once you have a scale in mind, contact APT for a budget price for a plant of that size to match with the flowsheet requirements. You will also receive back a very elementary 3-D schematic of what your plant would look like.

• Mining equipment costs can be easily come by and APT will provide budget estimates for plants in a few size categories, all catering to those starting mining or those well-versed in the mining field. Plug these into a simple financial model, or access a simple financial model on the APT website. This will give you an idea of the viability of the project given your ore grade and expected recovery, together with input costs and of course the gold price. Go for the minimum scale that makes money, you can always grow from the returns.

• Once you have narrowed down the scale you may request a formal quotation from APT.

1. Water

   • Your flowsheet and even your quotation will specify the water requirement in cubic metres of water per tonne of solid feed, usually about 2 m3 water per tonne solid.

   • By multiplying out the daily working hours you will know your requirement.

   • If you need to drill boreholes, you should get them sited, drilled and tested because if there is no water, there is no hope of mining. You may be lucky enough to have an old shaft on site to pump from, but test its replenishment.

   • Your water production rate from a borehole, for instance, may be less if you are processing for only 8 hours for example, but can pump for 24hrs.

   • If this is the case, you will need at-plant water storage. APT usually supplies one or two 70000 litre ponds. One of these can be used for recycle from the tailings pond, and one for clean water makeup from a borehole etc.

   • The clean water pond is then reserved for clean water users, like your Knelson concentrator if you have one, or the upgrading table.

1. Tailings disposal

   • Each country has rules governing the disposal of tailings, but it is always made easier if you are starting out with a chemistry-free gravity processing route.

   • Even so it is sometimes necessary to line the deposition area anyway, and in this case you need to consider a life-of-mine, calculate the tailings volume from that and hence the tailings area to be put down.

   • The tailings placement site should be chosen taking cognisance of the surrounding topography. The optimum situation is to choose a gentle slope with plant feed at the top, then the plant, then the tailings outwash area, then water reclamation ponds below that.

   • There should be three reclamation ponds; two central ones left and right with the muddy flow going into one, and then switched to the other when it is time to scoop out the accumulated mud from the first.

   • The far side of each of the two primary settlement ponds then overflow into the recycle water pond and the recycle pump is placed at the far side of this pond.

   • The recycle water should be pumped to the process water pond right at the site, as mentioned previously.

   • All ponds should have berms around them so that no muddy water flows in from the general surroundings when it rains.

1. Digging and mining equipment

   • Our case study is based upon surface free dig, which in the case of an elluvial deposit like chromite may involve surface scraping and loading into a tractor trailer. In this case a digger such as a backhoe may suffice. You may need two of each to make the system workable.

   • For an alluvial deposit, the digging may need to be more localized.

   • If the dig is on exposed reef along the strike then the digging may require an excavator matched to the mining rate.

   • In any event, APT are not mining experts and you are recommended to seek the advice of such a person or company to recommend the proper system.

2. Personnel

   • Apart from the very smallest of operations, all mining ventures require staff.

   • Choose people who are interested and have stamina before looking to qualifications. This is hard work with long hours and not just a job.

   • Make sure you get a well experienced mechanical person with some electrical knowledge to maintain and repair the equipment.

   • Once you have chosen your APT plant, APT can advise upon the number and grade of the necessary staff. They can also advise upon the level of expertise of the mechanical person.

3. Putting it all together

   • Now that you have defined the scale, it is time to put a plan together with a time frame and a check list of items to tick off:

• Specification and selection of mining equipment

• Plant siting plan. APT supplies you with a layout of the immediate plant area, so it is easy to superimpose this over your claims plan. This plan is sometimes necessary for permiting purposes.

• Digging and mining equipment.

• Tailings placement site.

• Minimum on-site infrastructure required (an APT plant comes with an elementary workshop and one or two of the containers can be retained to turn into a site office, restroom, etc.)

• Is there a road or will you need to clear one?

• Operating capital to see you clear to the first product payment, or beyond.

• Personnel

• The time frame will look like a project GANTT chart, nothing more than weeks blocked out in sequence with the necessary tasks. The final task is commissioning and startup. Be reasonable with the timing and leave blocks for rest or catchup. There is nothing worse that falsely generated pressure that normally results in mistakes.

1. Initiation

   • Generally this is the fun part and where starting mining feels like a reality. Place your orders for all the requirements leaving contingency time for arrival.

   • Engage the contractors to prepare the site and any roads.

   • Get the boreholes dug and equipped if appropriate.

   • Engage your staff just before the plant arrives as APT will use them in the construction phase which is very good training.

   • Begin mining ahead of time to accumulate a stockpile.

   • Begin to feed your plant with the assistance and guidance of APT. This is the break-inn phase where any problems come to light and are jointly corrected with APT and your staff, again good training.

   • The plant will then be signed-off and you are on your way to a hopefully prosperous project future.

APT wishes you all the best starting mining from project planning to implementation – please don’t hesitate to call upon us to assist with your special project! 

Modular: Smart Not Small!

APT are specialists in the engineering and supply of modular mineral processing plants that begin at a very small mining scale, and increase in size and capacity to suit mid-tier and larger mining developments. A common misconception that we come across is that the term ‘modular’ means small in size and capacity, when in actuality, modular is simply providing an efficient, effective and enhanced solution in a compact and neat package, without any unnecessary extras. Engineering and design of these plants is done with precision, and we have been doing this for many years to date. Winston Churchill once said “if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter”, and we share in his sentiments. Today, equipment has to be effective in the optimum size package possible, with increased quality and efficiency. Time is of the essence, and waiting years to begin production is simply no longer feasible. The market changes, prices and currencies fluctuate which increase the risk. With innovation, precise attention to detail and engineering smarts, we are able to provide you with modular mineral processing plants starting with a throughput of only 3tph, right through to 250tph and numerous sizes in between. While we do have standard equipment, we always take into account our clients’ needs

It is well-known that APT is very well established for its economic, entry level plants, but the company is equally at home producing far larger capacity offerings, within the modular design. In many instances, the entry level plants simply help you to start somewhere in a feasible manner, and grow more easily from that point. It does not mean you have to start small in any way, you can begin at a much larger scale too.

       

A case in point is the recently secured 120tph cassiterite processing plant, in which a milestone was reached launching the company to the next level. Cyanidation plants have also grown, as attested by the photographs above of an APT gravity tower with Knelson concentrator and Acacia Reactor, alongside 2 x 450 cubic meter CIL tanks. These CIL tanks are the epitome of our modular design, as conventional cyanidation tanks are more exploitive of the environment, use more building materials and others, you can read up on the benefits of these modular tanks here. The above plant also includes elution and smelting facilities to complete the package.

Below is a large 80tph capacity RG800 scrubber being delivered to site, the third largest in the APT range behind the RG800HD 120tph capacity and the RG2500 250tph capacity. Modular, simple, efficient and all designed with smarts.

"It's A Real Fairtrade GoldKacha"- Greg Valerio (Jeweller & Activist www.valeriojewellery.com) shares his views on the GoldKacha

Artisanal mining activist Greg Valerio (jeweller and activist www.valeriojewellery.com) shared one woman's experience using the APT GoldKacha and we are proud to now share it with you. The GoldKacha was created specifically for exploration purposes and artisanal mining/start-up mining development. Mr Valerio has seen first-hand the impact that the GoldKacha has, and its potential to influence the small-scale mining sector. Below is a the short article that Mr Valerio wrote on his blog, www.gregvalerio.com, featuring a video of one of the miners speaking of how the GoldKacha has impacted the lives of herself and those around her. This makes us proud to see hard work paying off and helping others, thank you Mr Valerio for sharing this with us.

"In this short video interview, the wonderful charismatic Josephine Aguti explains the social impact that the GoldKacha will have on the community in Busia, Uganda.

 Women from TIIRA Women’s Mining COOP in Busia Region, Uganda.

It is not rocket science, it is the simple walk of fair trade in jewellry transforming lives through friendships that seek economic and social justice for us all."

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APT GoldKacha – A machine for just about anyone

Whether you are an artisanal miner looking to break into the market on a budget, or an investor looking to do some exploration before your next big spend, the APT GoldKacha will most likely earn a place somewhere in your mineral processing plan. The APT GoldKacha is a centrifugal gravity mineral concentrator, designed as part of APT’s Groundbreaker and Exploration range. It was developed especially for small mining applications and is ideal for gold prospecting. The novel centrifugal riffle principle results in high recovery of both coarse & fine precious metals, particularly fine gold recovery.

Need a quick breakdown? This is how it works. Slurry is fed into the GoldKacha over a limiting size screen of 3mm. Material within the desired size range falls into the spinning cone and the heavier precious metals and minerals are forced outward and become trapped within the riffles. The concentrating action is enhanced by a unique and patented reflux principle, resulting in several concentrating stages on the ore before it exits. The concentrate is purged approximately once every hour and collected for further upgrade using a process such as conventional gold panning or our highly effective GoldKonka Concentrate Upgrader. The concentrator is driven by an electric 0.75kW motor, which can be connected to a small generator to allow for operation in remote areas.

The GoldKacha can handle a capacity of up to 3tph, but if you’re looking for a larger solution, several units can be nested allowing one operator to treat a greater tonnage of material, as shown in the picture below.

Similarily, for those big on business, several GoldKacha concentrators can be implemented as a custom treatment facility, where the owner can hire them out to enable others to process their own material in a safe & simple way. We will assist in performing demonstrations, should you wish, that show just how simple this plant is to operate, and how effective it is in recovery.

If you’re not sure if the GoldKacha is right for your ore, you can submit a sample for testing which will be undertaken alongside our associate mineral testwork laboratory, Peacocke & Simpson, who are ISO9001:2008 certified and have been in business since 1985. Here at APT, we provide an entire range of equipment available as add-ons so that we can give you the perfect processing plan.  Hard rock or alluvial, course or fine, we’ve got you covered. Check out the rest of our Groundbreaker Range here: small-scale stand-alone Jaw Crusher JC25, hard rock RD15 Fines Grinder, GoldKonka and GoldMasta sluice.

It is not too well known that APT does, in fact, allow distributors to become part of our sales team and get the plants to regions which we cannot, so if you are interested in becoming a distributor of the GoldKacha or any other pieces from the Groundbreaker Range, contact us at info@aptprocessing.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Gold, An Easy Target

With an internationally fixed price, an infinite market and being a small volume end product, the pluses for gold relative to other metals are strong. What is normally not appreciated is just how simple it is to recover this shiny prize in in the majority of cases. Yes, we all know about deep level refractory sulphides, but there is a vast resource of low hanging fruit to exhaust before going there.

Gold’s principal attribute that separates it, literally, is the very high SG of 19.2. Relative to its typical quartz ore host at an SG of 2.7, this is a huge differential to prey upon, and even if other sulphides or heavy minerals are present these rarely exceed an SG of 7, so this makes for great gravity separation potential.

The next favourable attribute of gold is that even at modest grinds it is liberated as free metallic particles, resulting in a disproportionately high amount becoming available for capture.

Gold is malleable, so it does not shatter upon grinding, as do some brittle minerals that become far finer that their host. This turns them into difficult targets for physical separation processes. In fact gold retains its liberated mass well and mostly what occurs is flattening and alteration of shape.

Putting all these attributes to our advantage allows the design of a simple process that maximizes the liberation of gold in as coarse a size as possible so that huge SG differential can be used to full advantage. The original ore breaks on the planes of weakness, which corresponds to the mineralization grain boundaries - we call this ‘early liberation’. We at APT have put a good deal of investigation into optimizing impact crushing as the mechanism of choice for oxide or quartz hosted ores. In fact impacting looks to have advantages for even deep level sulphide ores where both the sulphides and any free gold liberate well. Apart from the metallurgical advantage of early liberation, impact devices are small and compact and have a high reduction ratio. For example, with APT’s RD15 impactor, particles of up to 40mm are fed, resulting in a product with an 80% passing size of about 350 microns. The resulting product often yields a very high proportion of the gold in the primary gravity concentrate, see the progression of photographs below of an actual ore.

     

Putting this principle into a practical plant package has been achieved by APT’s design team to result in gold recovery plants of various throughputs from 1.5 tph through to 12tph, and beyond.

APT’s RDGK15 plant, either diesel or electric drive available

 

APT’s RD120 plant with pre-crusher and Knelson concentrator

  

 The RD15GK pictured above is an inexpensive starter pack that allows a prospective miner to get moving with professional equipment that has been purposely designed and built to the same standards as our larger plants. There is no compromise in quality on the RD, which is built in our own workshops. Being relatively light and compact the plant can be brought into production fast and can also be easily re-located. A small pre crusher as well as post cleanup and smelting packages are also available to complete the package for ore-to-gold capability.

 Certainly there may be more gold to extract by the addition of downstream plant, like APT’s TriTank cyanidation system for example, but that can always follow as a subsequent phase when the simple starter plant has provided the cash flow.

APT can provide amenability testing to assess the performance of your ore in our RD impacting system upon as little as 50kg of sample. We also provide the service of a pilot RDGK for recovery from 1 tonne ore samples, which the client is welcome to attend.

APT has therefore removed the obstacles to a fast and reasonable entry into gold production with professional, reliable equipment. All that remains is to implement and reap the golden rewards.

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GOLDFIX For Non Toxic & Efficient Gold Recovery

A recent addition to APT’s GroundBreaker range of Gold Mining products is a non toxic, recyclable, natural compound, developed and tested in house, which we have named ‘GoldFix^TM ’.

The GroundBreaker range is designed to be mercury free, and is widely used, particularly in places where environmental impact is a consideration. Mercury has, in the past, been the method commonly used to recover the maximum amount of elemental gold, being regarded as cheap and simple. However, because of its toxicity, in terms of its toll on human health and environmental pollution, it proved anything but cheap.

Now APT has produced a safe, efficient, cost effective alternative to mercury. GoldFix^TM is a natural compound which is recyclable and reusable. It is non toxic to humans and does not impact negatively on the environment. The APT gold recovery process, in which GoldFix is used, takes you from concentrate to smelted nugget in six simple steps. At the end of the process, the gold has been recovered and you are left with the pure gold nugget! GoldFix^TM for gold recovery works with APT’s existing GroundBreaker solutions, which include the GoldKacha, GoldKonka and GoldMasta. It provides the finishing step that bridges the gap between concentrates and gold ore bullion. Even the smallest amounts of gold can be captured efficiently.

Gold Alluvial Plant On Sale, Fully Assembled and Ready To Run!

This gold alluvial plant on sale boasts simple-to-use washing, scrubbing and mineral recovery components. It can process 6-10tph of alluvial/elluvial material, and although this particular one shown in the image below is for gold recovery, this plant can also recover a variety of minerals by simply having the upgrader changed, should you wish. The mineral recovery plant comes fully assembled and is installed and commissioned by APT professionals, ensuring a smooth and painless mining start-up process for the client. A concrete foundation is required on the site before the plant arrives, as well as a 1 meter high concrete wall and brick plinth. This allows for a neat plant set-up and optimizes the use of gravity as no chemicals are used or required. APT endeavors to be as safe in mining as possible, for both our clients and the environment. So how does this modular mining plant work? Firstly, the alluvial/elluvial material is fed into the scrubber via the feed trough and is then disintegrated into a pulp. The pulp is then fed by Gravity into 3 GoldKacha’s  where a batch concentrate is obtained. The concentrate is then cleaned up on the GoldKonka and smelted in the P100 electric furnace to produce the final gold bullion.

The RG100C plant is in-stock, fully assembled and sold as is, with all of the aforementioned components. The image below is of this exact plant, so this gives you an idea of what your mine will start out as. We do have an idea on how you can expand this plant financially and grow your mine, so feel free to contact us if you are interested in funding your own project.

This gold recovery plant is ready for collection upon payment and can be viewed upon request. Should you wish to receive any more information regarding freight quotes (should you wish for us to freight your plant), videos, testimonials from our other clients and more, please email or phone us on the contact details below

Contact Us On: Tel :  (27) 11 704 6678 Email :  info@aptprocessing.com