Your industrial mineral solutions Whether investing in a new project or optimising an existing plant, there are many hurdles to overcome including investment, licensing, infrastructure, recovery of minerals and marketing the product. When major investors see that we are working on a project there is a heightened level of “ confidence that it is well underway.” Cover Image: Cristal Mining, Ginkgo, Australia, 2005 This page: Southern Ionics Mission South WCP, USA, 2014 The first step – understanding your project vision The world’s leading producers rely on us to extract their valuable minerals. Success is achieved through skilled, Today, we are recognised by passionate people working together in customers worldwide as the ‘go pursuit of a shared vision and goals. to’ partner for process solutions across the project lifecycle. That’s why the very first step we take in working with our customers Customers call us when they is to listen and understand what need fast, cost effective process success for the project looks like. improvements to lower costs, convert tailings into revenue or We then go out of our way to work construct a new plant. collaboratively with our customer teams, based on our shared Importantly, we support NI 43‑101 understanding of the project goals requirements as qualified experts and timeframes. for the processing section of technical reports. Working from this understanding we deliver a comprehensive range Strategic Alliance of equipment, plant design and We have also formed a strategic services to achieve our customers' alliance with Core Resources to vision across all stages of the deliver high‑end metallurgical smarts project lifecycle. for industrial minerals, and precious Experience Delivers Results and base metals projects. From our beginnings in the 1950s Worldwide, our involvement separating heavy minerals from and participation in projects not the local sands on Australia’s East only provides customers with Coast, we have expanded and confidence in a successful outcome, developed our capability. it also provides confidence for key investors and stakeholders. Whether investing in a new project or optimising an existing plant, there are many hurdles to overcome including investment, licensing, infrastructure, recovery of minerals and marketing the CONCEPT FEASIBILITY BUILD OPERATE AND IMPROVE product. When major investors see that we are working on a project there is a heightened level of PFS/DFS Construction/D&C/EPC/EPCM MAINTAIN PRODUCTIVITY EC&M EC&M confidence that it is well underway.” Construction OM&S Strategic Alliance Strategic Alliance EC&M solutions industrial mineral Your OM&S 3 TIME COST Reliable, expert delivery QUALITY Our proven expertise in delivering tailored process solutions ensures customers can cost effectively produce saleable products that meet their specific needs across a wide range of industrial minerals including phosphate, silica, calcium carbonates, zircon, rutile, ilmenite, tin, tantalum, lithium and feldspar. Concept and Feasibility Plant Design As one of Australia’s largest Delivering concept, prefeasibility Our plants are designed to safely providers of engineering services and feasibility studies for customers and efficiently separate minerals for critical infrastructure projects we worldwide, our work typically to produce specific product grade deliver civil, structural, mechanical, begins with metallurgical testing requirements while delivering high electrical, instrumentation and at our Australian headquarters in availability, low capital and low technical capabilities. Queensland or under our direction operational expenditure. Extending Operate and Maintain in partner test laboratories in the beyond traditional spiral plants our We deliver services for maintenance USA, South Africa, Brazil and India. designs include gravity, magnetic shutdown and sustaining capital and electrostatic equipment with We test samples as small as projects. Our teams are experienced capacities ranging from 5 t/h 100 grams for characterisation in the maintenance of industrial to 7000 t/h. through to larger samples up to assets with specialists located 2,000 kg. Our testing uses state‑of‑ Responding to demand from across Australia. the‑art mineral separation equipment industrial minerals customers for for crushing, grinding, classification, relocatable, modular plants we Improve Productivity gravity and electrostatic separation have become the ‘go to’ provider, Given our 75+ years' experience as well as high and low intensity delivering plants that incorporate working with industrial minerals magnetic separation for wet and dry core process technologies into new we regularly transfer learnings and applications. We also deliver speciality low cost configurations. know-how across different mineral leaching and flotation techniques. types to breakdown knowledge Project Delivery silos and bring new ideas to Our laboratory has the capability Our project delivery includes achieve improved product grades. to create multi‑stage pilot scale fully integrated Engineering, By way of example, we recently circuits to treat bulk samples (80‑ Procurement and Construction brought new thinking about WHIMS 100 tonnes) for process testing and Management (EPCM) solutions from technology from the mineral sands circuit optimisation. concept through to operations and sector into chromite tailings to ongoing asset management. Where the mineral is different and achieve significantly improved challenging, we bring innovative Mineral Technologies provides the product grade. capabilities to design new and EPCM services while Downer’s unique solutions that augment and Engineering, Construction and lift the potential of conventional Maintenance division delivers flowsheets to extract the mineral construction services. and meet specific product grade requirements for saleable product. Your industrial mineral solutions industrial mineral Your 4 Grande Côte, Senegal, Côte, 2014 Grande 5 Your industrial mineral solutions Industry leading technology Customers value our ongoing commitment to researching and developing new, innovative equipment designs that extract maximum value from fine minerals. Equipment Development Designed for feed material ■ low equipment maintenance and Selection generally containing up to 25% requirements for greater When purchasing new equipment, heavy mineral (up to 40% in some plant availability; applications), the MG12 spirals we understand that customers need ■ spiral equipment is operator to ensure the equipment maximises offer a highly effective solution and friendly, no need for skilled labour; deliver maximum recovery from grades and recovery while delivering no reagents are used in single and multi‑stage circuits. ■ low operational costs and fits within the circuits; this delivers tight capex budgets. Our multi-stage circuit design environmentally friendly For this reason our equipment is facilitated a smaller, easier to float processes reducing operating designed and manufactured using plant. It also enabled a smooth costs and lowering potential for the latest technologies and is fully construction process with spiral environmental incidents; tested in processing operations bank modules easily dropped ■ robust and proven designs to ensure optimal performance. into place and integrated with the incorporating innovation when This means that when we release plant structure. applicable; and new process equipment you can In addition to spirals, we deliver ■ energy efficient magnetic be assured that it will be fit‑for‑ magnetic and electrostatic equipment elements for reduced OPEX. purpose and cost effective. for mineral sands separation. Customers using our wet high Completed Projects intensity magnetic separation ■ Mission South and (WHIMS) equipment value the Offerman Projects, Southern reliability and separation efficiency. Ionics Incorporated, USA; For electrostatic separation, ■ Grande Côte, Mineral Deposits the recently released HTR400 Limited, Africa; incorporates unique composite (no ■ Chavara, Indian Rare Earths glass) electrodes that deliver high Limited, India; throughput and low operating costs. ■ Trimex Sands Pvt Ltd, India; Benefits of Mineral ■ Millennium, Brazil; An excellent example is the use Technologies Equipment ■ Snapper and Ginkgo Projects, Cristal Mining, Australia; of our new MG12 spirals for the ■ high mineral recoveries over a Southern Ionics Mission South Wet wide particle size range; ■ Douglas and Hamilton, Iluka Concentrator Plant (WCP) in the USA. Resources Limited, Australia; and ■ highly selective operation improving product grade; ■ Cape Flattery Silica Mines, Australia. ■ compact and low weight construction reduces Your industrial mineral solutions industrial mineral Your installation costs; 6 Jacinth-Ambrosia, Australia 2006 Grande Côte, Senegal, 2014 Relationships creating success Our experience in delivering equipment and services to mineral and silica sands customers ensures that we understand what’s important to their success. We work hard to create and sustain Today, the Grande Côte project is valued relationships that enable our a leading example of excellence teams to fully understand, predict and in mineral sands separation, deliver solutions that turn possibilities and through smart design and into reality for our customers. innovative technology is expected to continue through the anticipated Grande Côte, TiZir 20‑year life of the mine. The Grande Côte mineral sands operation (GCO) in Africa, is the Testament to our relationship with largest