Metallurgical Testwork
Transmin has extensive experience in many different kinds of metallurgical testwork programs.
Transmin has extensive experience in many different kinds of metallurgical testwork programs.
Process development
Process development
- Use standard technology that can be rapidly taken into production.
- Maximize recovery of pay metals.
- Achieve a commercial quality concentrates or metals.
- Minimize operating costs, principally by saving on comminution and reagent consumption.
- Minimize capital costs, principally by saving on comminution requirements.
- Keep the flowsheet simple.
- Minimize the cost of tailings disposal.
- Develop a low cost environmental management system for hazardous wastes.
- Ensure that the process will be effective as projected for all mining blends, particularly in the first five years.
- Recover potential secondary income streams.
- Review and fortify the site wide water balance.
- Identify and quantify project risks regularly.
- Use existing technologies to mitigate critical risks.
Sampling
Sampling
- Coordination with geologists and mining engineersDefinition of geological domains
- Definition of point samples
- Definition of composites
- Assurance that sufficient sample is available
- Assurance that the samples are representative
- Assurance of chain of custody
- Complete documentation
- Preservation of sample integrity
- Maximize use out of available material
Laboratory Management
Laboratory Management
- Scope definition
- Competitive bidding
- Laboratory selection
- Work order preparation
- Coordination of sample delivery
- Testwork supervision
- Expert advice to client
- Supportive directions to laboratory
- Rapid problem solving
- Quality checks
- Assurance that all required data is acquired
- Appropriate analysis of the results
- Metallurgical projections for mine plans
- Complete documentation
- Budget compliance
- Schedule management