Scantech – Real Time Process Control Solutions for Conveyed Materials – Minerals Update

During 2007/08 strong demand continued for Scantech’s real time analysers in the cement, coal and minerals industries. A key Australian iron ore producer purchased a number of GEOSCAN-Ms for a new mine and processing plant. The analysers will be used to provide critical ore quality inputs for process control and also monitor product quality to optimise plant operation.

Sales to the copper industry increased with the supply of a GEOSCAN-M to a mid-tier producer. Plant feed rate will be controlled by utilsing the GEOSCAN-M’s real time analysis of high grade ore. Millions of dollars in metal losses can be avoided by controlling the ore feed based on copper metal tonnes rather than ore tonnes.

In addition to the GEOSCAN-M, Scantech has continued strong sales of its TBM200 Series microwave moisture monitors to the minerals industry. Demand in metal accounting applications, particularly in the platinum industry, has demonstrated the value these simple and inexpensive units can bring to treatment or high value ores. Implementation of the AMIRA International P754: Metal Accounting Code of Practice will increase demand for these technologies in the international minerals processing industry.

The above orders are confirmation that Scantech’s GEOSCAN-M and TBM200 Series provide substantial benefits to the minerals industry through on-conveyor real time analysis technologies.

Scantech’s core business is the development, supply and support of on belt analysers for the resources sector, worldwide. Scantech first supplied the coal sector in the early 1980s and now supplies a range of real time technologies to the cement, minerals, power and steel sectors. Scantech is strongly export orientated. Nearly 700 Scantech instruments have been sold in 34 countries. Around 75% of these are installed outside Australia. All units are built in Adelaide, South Australia.

In the minerals sector, real time analysis allows mines to optimise all phases of quality control and process optimisation, from mine face to train loading. Immediate feedback of the quality of the ore to plant personnel gives real time data to control the operation. This proactive control allows maximum extraction of the in-ground resource, optimum beneficiation to maximise saleable product, and assurance that customer specification targets are achieved.

Scantech’s analysers have applications in a wide variety of ores and concentrates, such as iron ore, manganese, copper, bauxite, zinc, nickel, uranium, platinum, gold and phosphate, in addition to Scantech’s traditional applications in coal, coke and cement. Scantech’s products are used for real time elemental and moisture analysis, ash in coal, and carbon in fly ash. These analysers can be used for bulk material quality monitoring, bulk sorting, blending, stockpile quality allocation, dust management, and numerous other process control and optimisation applications. Scantech utilises a global network of agents to provide local support in most regions with mining and processing operations.

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