Personnel
  • Experienced core group of two metallurgists and seven metallurgical technicians.
  • Key personnel have worked in operating plants and are aware of the need for effective and robust testing of plant flowsheets and equipment.
  • All permanent personnel are First Aid accredited and experienced in the practice of OH&S routines.
 
Metallurgical services offered by Burnie Research Laboratory include:
 
Comminution/Classification
   
  • Grinding in rod / ball mills
  • Ultrafine grinding in quartz with known power input
  • Wet / dry screening
  • Cyclosizing
  • Stirred milling with power draw determination
  • Mozley cyclone testing
  • Centrifuge desliming
  • Bond Work Index determination
  • JK SimMet routines
 
  grinding  
 
   
Flotation
     
  • Bench flotation 1-8L cells
  • Bench batch roughing and cleaning
  • 30L volume roughing
  • Locked cycle testing
  • Diagnostic testing to determine mineral oxidation
  • Base metal flotation routines
  • Oxide flotation
 
   
 
     
Leaching - Atmospheric and Pressure
     
  • Sulphate and chloride routine atmospheric batch leaching
  • PARR pressure oxidation (POX) routines in 4L titanium autoclave
  • Batch precipitation routines
  • Gold / CN leaching and diagnostic routines
  • Ferrous / ferric conversion
  • Iron and Zinc precipitation routines
  • Bacterial oxidation testing
 
  Leaching  
 
   
Gravity Separation
     
  • Mozely table separations
  • Holman quarter size shaking table
  • Superpanning
  • Tabling
  • Spiral separations
 
   
 
     
Other Services
     
  • Full range sizings (100mm to 5um) routines
  • Roasting
  • Magnetic separation
  • SX evaluations
  • Flocculant/coagulant evaluation
  • Filtration / settling testing
  • Transportable Moisture Level (TML) determinations
  • BIOX® equipped bacterial oxidation
  • Mineralogical assessment services (MODA Pty Ltd)
  • AQIS licenced to import and store quarantine materials
 
 

 
 

Burnie Research Laboratory

39 River Rd PO Box 952
Burnie Tasmania 7320 Australia

Phone : (03) 6431 6333
Fax : (03) 6431 6896

 
 
   
 
 
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