New Deswik Fine Grinder Efficient Green and Smart

Australian mining consultancy, Deswik Mining, have launched the highly innovative Deswik Fine Grinding Mill which they claim is efficient, green and smart.

A fine grinding mill is a machine that grinds mineral ore into standard particle sizes for easier mineral extraction.

Deswik's Sales Manager, Mr Stephen Massey said: "As South African Mines have discovered, the Mill has many distinct advantages over conventional mills.

"The Deswik mill has a highly variable speed hydraulic drive, patented vertical turbo disk impeller, inert bead media, small footprint, high availability, shorter delivery times, and high energy efficiency."

The simple and robust design of the vertical mill means ease of maintenance and higher availability.

The Mill can offer greater recovery at reduced capital and running cost.

The first test Mill is currently being commissioned for Australian Metallurgical and Mineral Testing Consultants (AMMTEC), in Western Australia and will be available for testing in July of this year.

The Deswik Mill is of vertical construction, manufactured in mild steel/stainless steel, with all wetted parts lined with hard wearing and contamination-free polyurethane resin.

The chamber is water jacketed for cooling. A separate heat exchanger system is also available.

The impeller is a patented turbo-disc design unique to the Deswik Mill.

It is designed in such a manner that its assembly is modular and the configuration may be easily changed to achieve different end product size and distribution characteristics.

The Deswik Mill is available in a range of sizes, from 250 litre mills delivering four (4) to eight (8) tonnes per hour (t/hr), to 5,000 litre mills delivering 75 – 150 t/hr dependent upon the required end product size.

The Deswik Mill can produce particle sizes from a D-50 of 200 micron down to 0.1 micron. This is achieved over a range of some 200 different products at energy consumption levels as low as 3 kWh/ton.

Recent production and testwork for various clients has indicated that in certain process circuits a Deswik Fine Grind can assist in doubling the concentrate value increasing the recovery by over 50%.

Already the Mill is generating significant interest in Australia's booming mining industry due to its potential to improve mineral recovery whilst significantly reducing power consumption.

As cleaner, greener technological processes are being demanded from Australian Mining.

The Deswik Mill’s introduction could not come at a better time. In certain circuits the use of the Mill will more than halve the grinding costs.