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MODERN MINING
February 2014
PRODUCT News
IMS Engineering reports that – as of
1 October 2013 – allmineral has relocated
offices into IMS’s state-of-the-art premises
in Spartan, Johannesburg.
IMS CEO Paul Bracher says that the
move signals the full and successful inte-
gration of allmineral South Africa into the
IMS Group. “This has added significant
strength to the IMS group,” he says. “With
allmineral’s expertise in the beneficiation
of minerals, as well as sand and gravel,
IMS is able to offer a comprehensive set of
IMS and allmineral now under same roof
separation technologies and solutions to
the market, drawing on local and global
expertise. allmineral provides a perfect
complement to our crushing as well as our
Steinert separation equipment that allows
us to provide highly innovative crushing
and separation solutions.”
Bryan Hockley, allmineral Operations
Manager, says that being under one roof
with the rest of the organisation is ben-
eficial as allmineral is better able to take
advantage of the obvious synergies that
exist between allmineral and the rest of IMS.
“A good example of this is the IMS test
centre which has attracted much attention
in the industry and draws to these prem-
ises important industry players. We have
already begun the process of installing, as
part of the test centre, allmineral machines
that will enable our engineers to conduct
informative tests with clients’ materials, to
ensure that they are able to pick the right
sorting solutions for their specific materi-
als,” says Hockley.
The first allmineral machines in the test
centre will be the minjig and miniflux,
which are specially designed for test work.
The miniflux, with a capacity of 300 kg/h,
is for the separation of slurried fines. Its
main applications are in sand, ore, coal,
heavy mineral sands and slag.
The minijig is a wet jigging machine for
density separation. It is an air-pulsed jig
with minimum energy consumption. Its
main applications include ore, coal, gravel,
sand and industrial minerals. It is easy to
operate and can handle particle sizes from
50 mm to 1 mm (16 mesh).
Bracher says that allmineral and IMS’s
Steinert sensor-sorting technology are an
excellent mix. “Where Steinert specialises
in magnetic separation and sensor sorting,
including X-ray and 3D sorting providing
low intensity magnetic separation (LIMS)
and medium intensity magnetic sepa-
ration (MIMS), allmineral specialises in
wet high intensity magnetic separation
(WHIMS). What makes this arrangement
so advantageous to our customers is how
well these portfolios dovetail, completing
IMS’s offering.”
Shannon McEwan, IMS, tel (+27 10) 001-8200
An allflux installed at an iron ore mine in Swaziland.
