Industrial Minerals – track record

Some recent projects are outlined below:
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Processing plant for Andalucita: S.A.

Bateman Engineering is nearing completion of a ZAR26 (US$3.5) million lumpsum turnkey project to establish a greenfields andalusite processing plant for Andalucita: S.A. at their site near Paita in Lima, Peru. The plant, a 40 t/h dense media separation plant (DMS) and associated equipment, has been pre-erected and factory tested before being transported to site where it is now being installed.

Thickening and clarification circuit for Phase 2 of Uranium One project

Following the completion of a contract to supply the complete thickening circuit for Phase 1 of the Uranium One Africa project in South Africa, Bateman Engineering is providing the thickeners and clarifiers for Phase 2.

Upgraded flotation-circuit at BMA’s Gregory Coal Mine

Bateman Engineering N.V. has upgraded the flotation circuit of the coal-processing plant at the Gregory Crinum Coal Mine near Emerald, Queensland, Australia for the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) by replacing the existing conventional circuit with new flotation technology. BMA is Australia’s largest coal producer and a leader in the international coal industry.

Outstanding Safety Achievement for 2007

Bateman Engineering achieved outstanding safety results during 2007 with two major projects achieving more than 1 million man hours worked without a lost time injury (LTI) by the calendar year end, one project achieving more than 2 million man hours and the Moma Mineral Sands project recording nearly 7 million man hours free from lost time injuries.

The Moma mineral-sands processing facility in Mozambique

The heavy-minerals processing project at Moma in Mozambique for Kenmare Resources plc of Ireland is nearing completion. This project is being conducted under a US$265 million EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract by a joint venture between subsidiaries of Bateman Engineering and Multiplex Ltd of Australia. An integrated project team based in Bateman Engineering’s offices in Boksburg is handling the project.

Jetty-and-barge export facility for Moma mineral sands

The export facility at Kenmare Resources PLC’s Moma mineral-sands project in Mozambique, currently nearing completion by a 50/50 joint venture between Bateman Engineering and Multiplex Ltd, is a highly cost-effective solution to transporting product to the bulk carriers, given the topography of the sand shelf off the coast at Moma.

Safety Achievement for 2006

Bateman Engineering’s ongoing commitment to safety has yielded outstanding results over the past years. As of mid September 2006, approximately 2.5 million working hours had been achieved without a serious injury with the year end lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) being at 0.14 per 200,000 manhours worked. Bateman Engineering has also been recommended for OHSAS 18001 certification.

Providing infrastructure for the Moma mineral-sands project

Providing the infrastructure required to install and run a modern minerals-processing plant has been a critical component of the success of the Moma mineral-sands project in Mozambique, given the remote and undeveloped area in which it is located.

Complete thickening circuit for Uranium One Africa

In a R47 million contract, Bateman Engineering has supplied the complete thickening circuit for Uranium One Africa’s new uranium plant to be located next to the company’s existing Bonanza gold-mining operation in the Klerksdorp area of South Africa.

Flotation-circuit upgrade at Gregory Coal

Bateman Engineering N.V. (BATEMAN) has been awarded a contract by BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) to undertake an AU$24 million upgrade of the coal-processing plant’s flotation circuit at the Gregory Crinum Coal Mine, located in central Queensland, Australia.

Sishen Expansion Project awarded to BATEMAN / Murray & Roberts JV

Kumba Resources Limited has awarded a contract to a joint venture between BATEMAN and Murray & Roberts to upgrade Sishen Iron Ore mine's production by 10M t/yr.

Aflease uranium plant to utilise pressure leaching

BATEMAN has been contracted to carry out the metallurgical process design for the new uranium plant for Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources (previously Afrikander Lease Limited) to be located next to the company's existing Bonanza gold-mining operation in the Klerksdorp area of South Africa.

Moma minerals sands on schedule

The US$220M Moma mineral-sands project in Mozambique is on schedule, with the first sub contracts having been awarded by the BATEMAN / MULTIPLEX joint venture.

BATEMAN's test rig for processing industrial-minerals

The design and engineering of large-scale facilities to separate the constituent minerals in complex ore bodies containing industrial minerals cannot be reliably tackled without extensively testing, on a pilot-plant scale, the effectiveness of a range of the most likely processes.

Kenmare's mineral-sands project at Moma

Kenmare Resources P.L.C., Ireland, has awarded the joint venture between BATEMAN and Multiplex Ltd of Australia a contract to establish a mineral-sands processing facility at Moma in the north-east of Mozambique.

Bankable feasibility study for Tormin Zircon project

BATEMAN has been appointed the engineering partner on the proposed Tormin Zircon project on South Africa’s West Coast, by the Australian-based mineral-sands group, Mineral Commodities Limited, and the bankable feasibility study (BFS) on the project has commenced.

The Tormin project, located approximately 400 km north of Cape Town, is a high-grade, zircon rich resource which, when developed, could position Mineral Commodities as a niche supplier to one of the fastest-growing sectors of the international mineral-sands market.

Bankable feasibility study for Corridor Sands

A bankable feasibility study (BFS) on the huge mineral-sands deposit near Chibuto, 200 km north of Maputo, Mozambique, has been completed for Corridor Sands Limitada.

Hillendale heavy-minerals plant

A primary wet-treatment plant to process mineral sands, designed by BATEMAN for Iscor Heavy Minerals (Pty) Ltd (now Ticor South Africa), has been commissioned and is operating successfully at Hillendale, close to Richards Bay in South Africa. BATEMAN, the managing contractor on the project, was responsible for the engineering design, project management and construction supervision, which were carried out under a lump-sum contract. BATEMAN was also responsible for the commissioning, which was done in terms of a reimbursable contract.

Heavy minerals treatment plant for Iscor

Bateman Minerals and Industrial Limited has completed the conceptual and detailed engineering of a 1 200 t/h primary wet treatment plant for Iscor Heavy Minerals to be built at the Hillendale site near Empangeni, RSA.