Metallurgical Testwork

Transmin has extensive experience in many different kinds of metallurgical testwork programs.

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

  • 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

  • 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