Stockpile Management in Mining
Front-end or wheel loaders and bulldozers are the most used pieces of equipment for either pushing product into feeders or reclaiming coal from the stockpile. There is a low up-front capital cost (amortising plant and equipment overheads over time), but high operating expenses, measured in the relevant currency per ton handled.
OPP-Dry: Materials Handling Facilities | Oil Sands Magazine
Apron feeders installed underneath the hopper feed a steady stream of oil sands to the crushers (or sizers) which break down any large chunks. Conveyors …
Comminution and classification technologies of iron ore
Ore that is less than 40 mm but greater than 8 mm is conveyed to the lump stockpile. Ore that is finer than 8 mm, but greater than 1 mm is conveyed to the fines stockpile. Any ore that is finer than 1 mm in size is conveyed to a de-sanding plant consisting of cyclones, upper current classifiers and two stages of spirals for further …
A method to evaluate the impact of stockpile size …
Semi-autogenous mills in general are fed from a coarse ore stockpile. Providing a uniform feed from the stockpile is essential to maintain a stable performance of the SAG mill and consequently downstream equipment. However, due to size segregation in stockpiles, the particle size from stockpile draw points can vary. The size distribution of feed to the …
Vibrating Feeder Design
What are Vibratory Feeders? Vibratory feeders are basically applied to a control function to meter or control the flow of material from a hopper, bin, or stockpile, much the same as an orifice or valve control flow in a hydraulic system. In a similar sense, feeders can be utilized as fixed rate, such as an orifice, or adjustable rate, as a valve.
(PDF) Field monitoring and performance evaluation of crushing plant
Ore crushing plant The mine studied is located at Rize in eastern Turkey and is the first fully mechanized underground copper and zinc mine operating since 1994. The run-of-mine ore is delivered directly from both underground and over a distance of 1 km from the shaft to the stockpile (having a 24,000 Mg capacity) by trucks.
(PDF) Modern Ore Transfer Chute & Belt Feeder Designs …
Granular mechanics modeling of belt conveyor transfer chutes and belt feeder stockpile reclaim chutes is shown to produce a better understanding of pitfalls and insight into improving their designs. Characterizing ore flow physics, based on ... 1 MODERN ORE TRANSFER CHUTE & BELT FEEDER DESIGNS DEVELOPED FROM DISCRETE …
Case Study
Jenike & Johanson conducts effective moisture drainage analysis for stockpiles following our typical analysis approach: Material testing to determine intrinsic hydraulic properties …
Eliminating Wet Stockpiles | Agg-Net
Eliminating Wet Stockpiles. 01 November, 2005. Moisture reduction system solves stockpile drainage problem for Lough Neagh sand producer. In February 2004 Quarry Management reported on a system capable of achieving accelerated moisture reduction in sand stockpiles, reducing gravity drainage times from a period of days or …
Stockpile Level Monitoring
In the minerals and mining industry, effective stockpile level monitoring is essential to maintaining operational efficiency and optimizing resource utilization. For this application, we must use a non-intrusive technology. …
McLanahan | Everything You Need to Know about Apron Feeders
Apron Feeders are a popular material handling choice for a variety of applications, including aggregates, coal and other mining ore, and scrap/recycle material, because they deliver material at a constant uniform rate.They play an important role in helping sites meet their production goals by achieving maximum throughput and …
Bulk Materials Storage Design: Considerations for the Design …
The stockpile was fed with an incoming conveyor and the bulk stream feeding the stockpile contained a -4 mm fraction percentage between 25% to 30%. The stockpile was reclaimed by gravity flow with two vibrating feeders (expanded flow). The stockpile did not experience any problems such as ratholing and arching of material in the mass flow chutes.
A numerical sensitivity study – The effectiveness of RFID …
The results show that the stockpile model is not sensitive to variables such as the ore size distribution, ore size range and RFID tag size, while wall friction, …
Bulk material feeder types and applications
Typical feeder applications include: Emptying bins or hoppers; Feeding downstream conveyors; Reclaiming material from stockpiles; Directly discharging material from stockpiles in reclaim …
Stockpiles – Drainage/Seepage Analysis
Drainage is the unsaturated flow of water through a mass of solid particles stored at rest in a stockpile. As a result of gravity, water flows downward through the pile. If the pile base is impervious or nearly so, water accumulates at the bottom, the bulk material cannot contain any more liquid, and it becomes saturated.
Mine stockpile design to minimise environmental impact
the destination chosen to minimise the total stress of the stockpile yard. As in Figure 1, the incoming trainload has weight w and composition. vector x. The stress vector has components {xk ...
Types of Ore Feeders
Legend: (a) belt, (b) apron, (c) screw, (d) shaking, (e) vibrating, (f) drum, (g) disk, (h) chain
Soft Sensors for Advanced Process Monitoring and Control …
This information enables the mill to be operated more confidently near its limits. A coarse-ore stockpile soft sensor as been developed recently using a 3D cellular automata-based model to track ore size throughout the pile, and estimating the live capacity and size at each stockpile feeder to the primary mills. Finally, a hydrocyclone soft ...
Belt Conveyor Reclaim Tunnels
Whenever the material and soil conditions permit its use, a belt conveyor in a reclaim tunnel is the most economical reclaim device due to its very limited manpower requirements and utilization of gravity to make the ore flow to the feeder opening. This dependence on material flow limits the belt conveyor in a reclaim tunnel to materials …
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How to deliver optimized results from your feeder hoppers
Sep 7, 2021. How to deliver optimized results from your feeder hoppers. Sean Mee. Senior Manager, Technical Support. Coarse ore stockpile (COS) feeders are the core of many …
Stockpile drainage and seepage, a case study
Given the high hydraulic conductivity of the ore, for the cases of poor drainage at the base of the pile, the initial water content of the ore in addition to the …
(PDF) Coarse ore stockpiles
Coarse ore stockpiles. June 2006. Authors: Sergio Zamorano. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Abstract and Figures. The design of coarse ore …
Chromium Processing | Process Flow, Cases
A belt conveyor will send the vibrating feeder with grizzly bar, gap 75mm, and over 75mm rock to the waste stockpile. 0-75mm ore go to trommel screen for sieving out 0-2mm and 2-75mm. 2-75mm are …
Eliminating Wet Stockpiles | Agg-Net
Moisture reduction system solves stockpile drainage problem for Lough Neagh sand producer In February 2004 Quarry Management reported on a system capable of achieving accelerated …
Angles of Repose
The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane to which a material can be piled without slumping. At this angle, the material on …
Stockpile Reclaim Systems
Stockpile Discharge Problems Minimal Active Reclaim By utilising a static hopper and feeder, active reclaim is limited to within approximately 40° of the stored material's natural angle of repose. Bridging Bridging is the archlike formation of material over either the static hopper inlet or outlet. It results
Stockpile Reclaim and Apron Feeders | HMA Group
Categories. Brands. Products & Services. HMA Materials Handling Reclaim and Apron Feeders are an efficient way of reclaiming or feeding material in a variety of applications.
Conceptual & Functional Engineering
Key pile features: Pile geometry (either conical or prismatic) Total capacity and live reclaim in tonnage or percent of total capacity. Number, location, and critical spacing of hoppers …
Waste Rock & Ore Stockpile Management Standard
1 PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES. This Global Standard sets the minimum requirements for the management of waste rock and ore stockpiles to minimize adverse environmental and human health impacts, to promote beneficial post-mining land uses, and to reduce post mining closure and reclamation liability. This Standard addresses characterization of ore …