Modular Cyanidation Plant in Zimbabwe: APT TriTank TT20

APT's modular cyanidation plant, the TriTank TT20, has taken off with one being recently delivered to a client in Zimbabwe and another immediately ordered thereafter for a separate client. This plant is currently under manufacture and will be ready for delivery within just two weeks. True to APT, the plant is expected to be well engineered, well manufactured and will run in a far more efficient manner than conventional cyanidation tanks. The TriTank does not have the same design as conventional tanks; it incorporates 6 separate tanks into one neat, modular and efficient plant. The benefits are outlined here and we recommend giving it a read if you are new to the APT TriTank concept.

In addition to these entry level plants APT has also received two very significant TriTank CIL plant orders; the first is for a client in Sudan where three TT500 (500 cubic meter each) CIL tanks will be installed on the dissolution train with an additional APT Detox system, also comprising of a TriTank. Below is a video of a similar larger scale modular cyanidation plant, and more on site mining videos can be viewed here.

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The second large TriTank is for a waste rock retreatment operation close to Johannesburg, where a TT500 will be employed. This installation will be delivered in a record 12 weeks.

For further queries, please contact us here on our website, or alternatively email us at info@aptprocessing.com. We look forward to these exciting developments and making our clients proud!

Afromin Consulting Limited Representing APT at Nigeria Mining Week 2017

“Nigerian mining companies do not need to travel around the world any longer in search of the best technical services” - Click the link to read Nigeria Mining Week's exclusive interview with exhibitor Gbenga Ojo, APT Distributor for Nigeria & Managing Partner of Afromin Consulting Limited.

We are proud to be represented at Nigeria Mining Week by Mr Gbenga Ojo, Managing Partner of Afromin Consulting Limited and APT's sole Nigeria distributor. Mr Ojo will be at the Afromin booth, number 106. Mr Ojo stated "as a firm, we are excited about the opportunity to engage the Nigerian mining stakeholders, through Afromin, on the uniqueness of our APT products and how these products are well suited for the artisanal, small-scale and junior miners who, although serious about mining their viable projects, are yet faced with the challenge of raising the large capital required for the developments of their projects. APT is therefore pleased to be providing the modular mineral process plants, as a innovative solution to the emerging Nigeria Mining sector.

APT is of the opinion that its partnership with Afromin, does not only provide is target clients with modular plants, but also provides them with a solution that is comprehensive, as Afromin seeks to provides services across the mining value chain in Nigeria, which ranges from exploration program management, contract mining, capital rising, etc".

For more information on the exhibition of APT products at the Nigeria Mining Week, please feel free to contact Mr Gbenga Ojo on gojo@afromincl.com, or visit the Afromin booth 106 at the 2nd annual Nigeria Mining Week.

Mining Equipment Suppliers South Africa: plants headed out lately!

As mining equipment suppliers in South Africa, not everyone around the globe gets to really see what we are all about, so we endeavor to show you as much as we can and this week, we're showing you the latest plants that have headed out. As always, our plants are manufactured, pre-assembled, pre-pluged and pre-wired all in-house, before being disassembled and packaged for their journey to site. This process allows us to have as much control as possible, ensuring our equipment is manufactured fast and efficiently.

First up, the team working on an RG30 with Goldilox alluvial processing plant. The Goldilox system provides full automation of the GoldKacha gravity concentrator as well as protection of the concentrates, allowing for secure and continuous operation.

Manufacture on this RG30 has been completed. Next to assemble the complete alluvial plant before delivery to Indonesia.

Delayed by Irma, one of these guys is finally on its way to site via a very long path travelling from South Africa, to England, to Miami and finally the Dominican Republic.

The latest RG30T, ready to be collected by the customer and destined for an exploration exercise in a neighboring country. This plant was completed in record time of three and a half weeks. You can read more about this fully comprehensive mobile gold processing plant here.

Packed and ready to go. An RDGK15 gravity concentration plant destined for East Africa.

We often document the plants as they arrive on site and installation and commissioning begins! If you would like to see these videos, scroll through our video section here and you'll be up to date on all things mining. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to email us on info@aptprocessing.com or contact us here, we're always happy to help.

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Mobile Gold Processing Plant | South Africa Mining Equipment Suppliers | APT

If you are on the hunt for a mobile gold processing plant, you've come to the right place! APT engineer and supply modular mining equipment, including trailer versions of complete mining equipment kits allowing you to go from gold or bulk mineral bearing material to the recovered product efficiently and quickly. These mobile gold processing plant kits have options catering to hard rock and/or alluvial material. We pride ourselves on having short lead times as we understand the urgency in wanting to begin your mining venture and we are proud to announce that we have just set a new record in fully manufacturing and assembling our RG30-T mobile gold processing plant in a record time of just 3 short weeks, ready to head to our client in Southern Africa. Well done to the APT team! The RG30-T mobile gold processing plant (pictured below) will be used as an exploration module, something it is well-suited to due to its robust and minimalist design, and does not have a crushing section as it will only process alluvial material. The RG30-T includes everything required to go from ore to final concentrate, from the complete wash plant through to the GoldKacha concentrator through to a lock-up section to store your gold-bearing concentrate safely.

The video below shows another RG30-T mobile gold processing plant running from start to finish, using a clients sample so they could see how the plant works and their recoveries. All that was done prior to turning the plant on was setting up the trailer, which can be done in as little as 5 minutes.

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For more videos on site or to see APT's mining equipment for yourself, view our selection of videos here. What you see is reality and in the moment! For further information, contact us here or via email on info@aptprocessing.com.

Small Scale Gold Recovery Plant On Site | One Minute With APT

APT is inviting you to view a gold recovery plant on site as part of our 'One Minute On Site' video series. Through these on site videos we aim to show you what it is really like on a mine site and how APT's mining equipment operates in reality so that you have an idea of what to expect before you begin your mining venture. If you are looking to start mining or just want to see our mining equipment on site, stick around as we share these videos often. You can also view our whole video archive on our website here. For this gold recovery plant on site video, we are going back to our roots featuring a gold recovery plant that is part of our GroundBreaker range, the RG30. This wash plant unit incorporates the GoldKacha concentrator and GoldMasta sluice, for maximum gold recovery. In true APT style, we adopted a minimalist design, ensuring that the plant is simple to operate and a pleasure to run.

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"We've used an RG30 small scale gold recovery plant for some time now. The Scrubber breaks down tenacious clay and screens all fines to the GoldKacha Concentrator which we find extremely efficient. A winning combination, thank you APT" - H. Jenkins | CEO, Goldchip Investments 

APT's Rg30 is also available as a trailer plant, perfect for exploration purposes or sites where you need to relocate quickly. Contact us here for further information.

For more time on site, view our videos here, we have everything from more of our GroundBreaker plants to our much larger TriTank cyanidation plants and more.

APT TriTank® Cyanidation System: the advantages

This article will focus on the TriTank benefits; a system introduced by professional metallurgical engineers, APT. Cyanide dissolving gold is a reaction, just like dissolving sugar in your tea. The better mixed your slurry, the more cyanide is dissolved and the faster it dissolves. Why is this so important? There are some very logical reasons:

• The faster you can make the reaction happen, the smaller the vessel you need to contain the reaction, and thus the lower the capital cost of the plant.
• The quicker the reaction, the better use you make of the cyanide which decomposes with time. Also the better use you make of the oxygen in solution as oxygen is necessary for the gold cyanide reaction.
• Better mixing means a more efficient process and more complete reactions.

Dissolving the gold is only part of the procedure, in the CIL or CIP process the second part of the story is adsorbing the gold back out of the pregnant cyanide solution onto the carbon. The rate of the adsorption reaction is driven by the concentration of the gold in solution, so getting the barren solution away from the carbon particle and getting fresh gold bearing solution to the surface is very important.

In summary, the better the mixing, the better the cyanidation, the more gold you will extract.

The APT TriTank® system offers:

• Extremely efficient mixing
• A smaller and less costly plant
• Less material required to construct
• A smaller plant footprint, thus easier to contain
• More oxygen introduced into solution
• Ease of operation
• Quick and easy installation

APT TriTank® is a more efficient cyanidation/carbon system that is proven in practice.

Available in 20, 40, 80, 200, 300, 400 and 500 cubic metre capacities.  Supplied as complete systems, installed and commissioned by APT.

Many claims have been made here, and APT stands by all of them. TriTank is a properly researched and engineered system, not an assemblage of tanks made in the ‘corner welding shop’. A professional metallurgical solution produced by professional metallurgical engineers. Please continue through the paper here to explore the TriTank development and judge for yourself.

Kevin Peacocke

APT CEO (BSc Eng Min Proc, IOM3, C Eng)

To view a video of the APT TriTank on site, please see below:

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Mercury Remediation on Contaminated Mining Sites Possible with APT's GoldKacha

Leading from our previous article congratulating Zimbabwean mineral testwork laboratory, Peacocke & Simpson, for their achievement in gaining their ISO 9001:2015 certification, we wanted to show an example of the work we have had done in our research and development phase and the significance of it today. This particular testwork report was done in 2010 to establish whether mercury remediation on contaminated mining sites was possible with the APT GoldKacha and if so, to what extent. The whole report can be viewed here, but we have also given a basic summary of the results below. The question: 'is mercury remediation on contaminated mining sites possible with APT's GoldKacha concentrator?' 

The answer: 'A 380kg typical mine tailings sample mixed with 50g mercury was subjected to gravity concentration using a Goldkacha Concentrator to investigate mercury recovery from dump tailings sample. Mercury recovery was 99.4% into Goldkacha concentrates of 3.8% by mass. The mercury recovery was achieved while the Goldkacha was running at a relatively low speed of 71 rpm.' 

The results showed that the GoldKacha was a significant step forward in not only mercury free, but also mercury remediation solutions. Since then, APT have embarked on several mercury free initiatives with several well-known entities and we continue to develop our work and improve upon existing solutions.The GoldKacha, for example, has been developed to suit multiple environments; it is available as a solar powered plant and is also available as the Goldilox, a fully automated solution which allows you to safely store all gold bearing material as soon as it has been recovered.

The options and opportunities are endless and we at APT continuously strive to push the limits and set the bar for the future of mining. The video below gives just a glimpse into the work that we are doing globally.

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For queries, please email us on info@aptprocessing.com or simply visit our contact page right here on our website. We welcome all discussions and ideas, so be sure to keep up with our social media pages too.

Mineral Testwork Laboratory in Zimbabwe, Peacocke & Simpson, Awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification

APT would like to extend our sincere congratulations to mineral testwork laboratory in Zimbabwe, Peacocke & Simpson, for the award of their ISO 9001:2015 certification from the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ). They are the first mineral testwork laboratory in Zimbabwe to have achieved this (leading on from their ISO 9001:2008 certification awarded in 2013) and we are proud of the team and their efforts do not go unnoticed.

Peacocke & Simpson released a statement on their website, part of which is shown below:

"Being ISO certified requires meeting the standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) designed to “ensure that products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality,” and means that P&S is a “Supplier of Goods and Services in Respect of which the Organisation is Registered” by SAZ to ISO standards." 

Well done to the Peacocke & Simpson team!

APT always recommend that mineral testwork is undertaken before advancing on any mining project. We work closely with Peacocke & Simpson to ensure our clients get the best service possible and are happy to assist you with the testwork process so please contact us here with any queries. For more on Peacocke & Simpson, please visit their website here and view their quality statement here.

Mining Equipment Testimonials: what our clients have to say

Mining equipment testimonials are hugely important to us; not only do they give future clients peace of mind and some idea of what to expect from our company in the future, but they also make us as mining equipment engineers and suppliers feel good about the work that we have put in, affording the motivation for us to improve and always strive to do the best we can. Here's what a few of our our valued clients have had to say:

"We’ve used an RG30 scrubber for some time now. The scrubber breaks down tenacious clay and screens all fines to the GoldKacha concentrator which we find extremely efficient. A winning combination, thank you APT."

H. Jenkins (CEO, Goldchip Investments)

"I have had an amazing couple of days watching the recovery  circuit being installed. Special thanks to Mark and his team and I must commend them on their work ethics but most importantly their joyous attitude. Mark has a special group of Lads. I have had a chat with my guys to ensure that our plant attains the same high level that Mark and his team have set. We certainly feel comfortable with having entrusted your company with the recovery circuit and are very anxious to get the setup commissioned. Once again thank you."

Emmanuel 

"We constructed two TriTanks at our Eldorado mine to retreat tailings. The plant operated for 7 years and was the least problematic of any plant I have ever built and worked. We never dug out a tank. After a power cut, usually not more than 30 minutes, the plant was re-started and within minutes the pulp was back in suspension. Agitation was superb resulting in rapid dissolution and effective washing of the carbon off the horizontal carbon screens. In conclusion, the triangular agitator is far superior to anything that has ever been built."

J. Skinner (Previously Group Projects Manager for Lonrho)

 

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients for their continued support and we look forward to working with you on future mining projects!

For inquiries, please contact us on our website here or email us on info@aptprocessing.com. We cover everything from mineral testwork through to the designing, supply, manufacturing, engineering, installation and commissioning of all APT mining equipment. We look forward to hearing from you!

Alluvial and Hard Rock Plant On Site: 1 Minute With APT

As with our 2 Minutes on Site with the CIL TriTank, we are now showing you our alluvial and hard rock plant on site with the RG100 Combo for gold recovery, although we do provide similar plants with the option of bulk mineral recovery. This plant is medium sized but was designed to be neat, making the on-site experience more enjoyable as well as simple to operate and high in recovery capability. It is a 'combo' plant because it features a hard rock crushing section as well as the alluvial section, as opposed to our RG100 which is used when hard rock crushing is not required.

The video below shows how APT's RG100 combo plant operates and the neat lay-out we have for it. This plant in particular was recently installed and commissioned in Africa and we thoroughly enjoyed the whole process. For more on-site videos, we recommend visiting our mining videos page here. We have included informative videos, site visits showing how the mines operate in reality and how the plants work and more. If we have left anything out that you would like to see, let us know and we will definitely include it.

View the alluvial and hard rock plant on site video here:

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We try to keep our mining equipment videos short and sweet, allowing you to briefly experience a mine site and see it the APT way. If you would like more information on the APT RG100 Combo plant, please visit similar plants on our website; here you can find gold recovery options, and here bulk mineral recovery options. We welcome you to also email us with any further queries you may have or contact us through our website here.

Below are some pictures from the site, which show the whole plant layout.

In case you missed it, our phone number has changed to (27) 10 035 1001 and we will be phasing out our old line within the next few weeks.