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ELECTRA MINING
AFRICA
Conference to focus on African opportunities
One of the inaugural events at this year’s Electra Mining will be a Southern
African Development Community (SADC) conference focusing on opportu-
nities in Africa which will take place on 15 September.
The opening keynote address will be presented by Charles Siwawa,
CEO of the Chamber of Mines Botswana, and Isaac Kwesu, President of the
Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe. They will be giving a SADC mining overview
focusing on establishing a sustainable road ahead in a changing landscape.
Discussion points will include challenges and opportunities through to
2018, plans in place to attract foreign investment to the industry, strategies
to ensure long-term sustainable growth and the importance of building
relationships between the mining sector and local communities.
will be showcased as the latest innovation from
I-CAT. Introduced to address dust issues at
conveyor discharge points, the R-SDR system
creates a virtual curtain around material flow
for what I-Cat describes as “outstanding par-
ticle containment”.
Also on display will be the company’s I-VAP
system (Waste Water Evaporation Cannon)
capable of handling 500 m
3
per 12-hour day,
and its Roto-Fire-Pack (Backpack Fast Response
System), which makes use of T-Rotor technol-
ogy, currently the leading misting technology
internationally. It extinguishes all classes of
fires by using foam mist as the agent.
Exhibitors active in supplying equipment for
minerals processing will include global mining
solutions provider
Tega Industries
. The com-
pany – whose credo is ‘Partnership in Practice’
– will debut its mill scanning solutions that
use hyper-accurate camera technology to view
and measure the geometry of a mill to gauge
the wear and to ascertain optimum replacement
cycles for mill liners. Software will also be at
hand to integrate and model efficient processes.
Tega MD Fernando Monteiro says some of
the other products of interest will include a
cross-section of available liner technologies,
wear components and industrial products, as
well as home-grown innovations such as drill
rig shock assemblies, cable protectors and other
locally developed innovations.
Screening and vibrating equipment solutions
provider
Aury Africa
will be emphasising its
capability to manufacture hand-poured poly-
urethane (PU) panels locally, a development
which – it says – offers significant cost savings
and enhanced quality for mining customers.
Aury Africa MDMark Houchin notes that the
company has just commissioned a hand-cast
gravity-pour PU facility. It previously imported
all of its PU panels from its sister company in
Tianjin, China. “Aury China has supplied us
with manufacturing equipment so that we can
commence with local manufacture. This repre-
sents a major cost-saving, which will make our
local products even more cost-competitive for
our mining customers, and establish us as the
leading local supplier,” he comments.
Aury Africa produces a complete range of
high-quality vibrating screens for the coal and
minerals processing industries. Included in the
range are banana vibrating screens available
in single- and double-deck configuration up
to 4,8 m wide and 8,5 m long, and horizontal
vibrating screens, also in single and double-
deck configuration, up to 4,3 m wide and 8,5 m
long. High-frequency vibrating screens, cir-
cular motion vibrating screens in single- and
double-deck configuration, and flip flop vibrat-
ing screens are also offered by the company, as
are a range of exciters to fit most OEM screen
types.
Another screen manufacturer booked for this
year’s show is
Joest Kwatani
. “Electra Mining
Africa allows us to meet a large number of
The I-VAP SystemWater Evaporation Cannon from I-CAT.
Composite steel mill liners
will be on display at the
Tega stand.