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DIAMONDS
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MODERN MINING
March 2017
S
choepflin points out that water is an
increasingly scarce commodity in
regions across Africa and that mines
can no longer rely solely on discov-
ering new water sources to meet
their needs. She adds that the drive to use
water more efficiently is focused on the major
demand areas such as the processing plants,
especially on the potential for recycling water
back into these plants rather than losing water
through poorly dewatered product or tailings.
This is where dewatering vibrating screens
Mines
in
water-scarce
areas
turn to dewatering screens
Derrick’s HI-G performance,
linear motion dewatering
screen is able to recover
solid material including
particles as small as
25 microns.
Kwatani CEO Kim Schoepflin.
Growing water scarcity in many diamond-mining areas
is leading mines to adopt dewatering technology from
Gauteng-based vibrating screen specialist Kwatani. This
includes fine screening solutions to recover even more wa-
ter. “Many diamond mines operate in highly water-stressed
environments, and so are searching for ways to reduce their
overall water use through innovation and technology,” says
Kim Schoepflin, Kwatani’s Chief Executive Officer.