overview october 2013. mintek - situated in randburg, on the northern outskirts of johannesburg
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Overview
October 2013
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Mintek - situated in Randburg, on the northern outskirts of Johannesburg
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• is one of the largest and oldest mineral and metal technology institutes in the world (80 years old in 2014)
• is a state-owned Science Council, governed by an Act of Parliament, with a board appointed by the Minister of Mineral Resources
• focuses on all aspects of minerals processing and beneficiation, with the exception of iron- and steel making and coal processing
• has a permanent staff of about 750, including 250 engineers and scientists
• undertakes R&D and furnishes commercial testwork and consultancy services to clients worldwide
• Has an annual budget of about €50 million:
– 50% funding from state sources, focused on research– 50% commercial income, derived from various services to
industry (Over 700 commercial projects last year)
Mintek ……
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Mintek operates in the latter stages of the Mining Value Chain
Exploration Mining Concentration RefiningValue Addition
Pyrometallurgy
Hydrometallurgy& Biotechnology
MINTEK
CGS CSIR
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Mintek’s activities
ClientsState
Mining and metallurgical
companies
Engineering companies
SMMEs
Gold & uranium
Platinum metals
Ferrous metals
Industrial minerals
Non-Ferrous
OutputsSpecialised Services
Products
Routine Services
IP / Know-How
Fields
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International projects account for half Mintek’s revenue
Asia; 8%
Australia; 4%
Europe; 12%
North Amer-ica; 21%
Africa; 49%
South Amer-ica; 6%
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Mintek’s extensive R&D underpins its commercial services
• Mintek spends €25m annually on applied R&D (~50% of its budget)
• These R&D outputs are transferred to industry either in the form of commercial service work or, on occasion, technology licences
• Mintek undertakes over 700 commercial projects annually, evidence of the high regard industry has for our technology
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Mineral Processing Division
Competitive strengths – PGM processing, HPGR, ore sorting
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Pyrometallurgy Division
Competitive strengths – DC smelting, laterite, ferroalloys, beach sands, magnesium
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Hydrometallurgy Division
Competitive strengths – uranium, PGM and gold processing, IX, Resin in pulp
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Biotechnology Division
Competitive strengths – Tank and heap bioleaching, biosynthesis of metal nano-particles and surfactants
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Advanced Materials Division
Competitive strengths - metal-based value added products in the following areas:
Biomedical : metal-based drugs for HIV, malaria & cancer (commercial HIV-1 integrase assay kit developed)
Catalysis: precious metals (gold & platinum-group metals) based catalysts & pilot plants (AUROLite™ catalyst range)
Nanotechnology: devices in health and water
Metallurgy: products and services
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Often the site work is conducted in very difficult conditions!
Copper heap bioleach test facility in Iran
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These test facilities are operated at industrial scale
Tapping of Mintek’s test DC furnace
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Extensive re-configuration is required to demonstrate specific technologies
Mintek test facility for magnesium production
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Mintek sometimes supplies technology on a turnkey basis
Turnkey gold refinery using Mintek Minotaur® technology
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79-year track record of technology transfer
Historically ….
• Uranium recovery in the 1940’s
• Pebble- and run-of-mine milling in the 1950’s
• Carbon-in-pulp in the 1970’s
More recent developments ....
• DC smelting for Koniambo FeNi , and SA beach sands
• METRIX® resin-in-pulp for uranium recovery
• ConRoast® smelting technology for high-Cr platinum
• Cyanoprobe® on-line cyanide monitoring equipment
• Minstral® furnace electrode and FloatStar® flotation control
• Heap leaching design data for a very large Chilean copper project
• Milling/flotation process for UG2 platinum ores