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December 2016
MODERN MINING
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BULK MATERIALS
HANDLING
feature
ELB’s order book
Left:
ELB Engineering has
recently been awarded a
contract for the life exten-
sion of the portal reclaimer
scraper at the Cullinan
diamond mine of Petra
Diamonds near Pretoria.
Below:
A 10 000 tonne/day
concentrator designed and
built by ENFI, one of ELB
Engineering’s international
partners.
companies in South Africa supply-
ing plants of this type.”
The two other divisions within
ELB are Bulk Materials Handling,
traditionally the backbone of the
company, and Industrial Projects,
which offers turnkey solutions to
the industrial sector and whose
expertise includes fine powder
handling, air pollution control and
small-scale power plants.
A second contract in the mining
field secured by ELB encompasses
the life extension of the Cullinan
portal reclaimer scraper at the
Cullinan diamond mine of Petra
Diamonds near Pretoria. The focus
of the life extension improvements
will be on safety and production
and will allow the machine to
operate at a higher availability and
capability level.
ELB’s scope of supply for this proj-
ect includes a combination of repair
work and replacement of equipment
which will include the design and engineering
services for the supply of all mechanical, struc-
tural, electrical, instrumentation and control
and iron ore, although our expertise covers all
metals and minerals, and we’ve recently built
11 DMS plants, making us one of the leading