Outotec has field experience in support of exploration programs designed to define recoverable minerals, leading to ore body characterization, bulk sampling and flowsheet development. Outotec’s basic and detailed engineering designs take these flowsheets and key technologies and turn them into plant offerings that result in efficient and cost effective commercial production facilities. Our many total processing solution services include:
Flowsheet development
Once testing services reveal ore characteristics and processing needs Outotec experts consider the following to develop proper flowsheets for a processing plant:
- Engineering issues
- Equipment performance as a function of feed characteristics
- Product specification/ requirements.
Ancillary support equipment, i.e., pumping, screening, etc., is then appropriately applied through our foundation of industrial experience.
Feasibility studies
Outotec feasibility studies can include the following elements:
- Drilling and resource assessment
- Orebody characterization
- Metallurgical test work
- Bulk sampling and processing
- Slimes characterization
- Basic flowsheet development
- Downstream upgrading evaluations
- Generation of marketing samples
Engineering
Once a flowsheet is determined, equipment and plant systems can be designed to meet specific customer and application requirements. Outotec’s basic and detailed engineering designs are flowsheets and technologies turned into plant offerings that result in efficient and cost effective commercial production facilities.
Management
Outotec understands that no project can be successful without proper oversight of key areas. The process design basis must be adhered to, schedules must be maintained, change orders minimized and communication between all parties clear. Outotec serves clients with a variety of management services for each project it undertakes.
Processing plant experience
- Silica sand plants (Glass sand and Hydraulic Fracturing (Frac) sand plants)
- Heavy mineral sands plants (Ilmenite, rutile, zircon, titania, etc.)
- Chromite ore processing plants
- Garnet processing plants
- Iron ore processing plants
- Iron sands processing plants