F L SMIDTH BUFFALO (PTY) LTD
Industrial Engineer in Emalahleni

Manufacturers of Feeder Breakers, Feeders, Reclaim Feeders and Sizers for the Mining Industry.

Investors Investors Investing in FLSmidth means investing in an asset light business model, full flow sheet solutions, a holistic life-cycle approach and more sustainable and eco-efficient technologies. Browse our investor section via this menu or go to the Investor Room for a quick overview. FLSmidth offers a wide range of audits to help maximise plant availability. FLSmidth offers a complete range of on-site services to help maximise equipment availability at plants around the world, irrespective of OEM. FLSmidth provides the testing you need to get the most out of your applications. Always looking towards the future, FLSmidth has you covered with spare and wear parts supply and planning. Periodic wear monitoring inspections will help to ensure that your plant is always running smoothly, and that your needs are continuously anticipated. Customers can feel confident that their investment in FLSmidth equipment is backed by world-class aftermarket support. Our O&M contracts are performance paid, so we work harder for you! FLSmidth offers a new level of expertise and unsurpassed knowledge within the minerals industry for maximizing process plant performance through the combination of its metallurgical testing, ore characterization and process mineralogy, along with process technology know-how. Most of the high grade, easy to process ores have long been worked out. Deposits currently being worked are lower grade, harder, finer grained and mineralogically more complex. Added to this are the ever rising cost of power, labour and plant consumables, increasingly expensive sustainability and environmental responsibilities, new taxes and a worldwide shortage of experienced plant and process engineers. Process design for successful exploitation of these ores is becoming increasingly more challenging; particularly when trying to keep these operations on track once they have started up and are pushing tonnage. These include automated scanning electron microscopes with special software and hardware to perform quantitative mineralogy, particle size analysis, liberation-locking analysis and size by size mineralogy on ore and process samples including material balances to validate the mineralogy. Combining these technologies with expert metallurgical assessment and verification testing along with the application of sound process knowledge is an extremely powerful and effective tool. After the safety induction, introduction to all involved at site explaining what we will be doing followed by a walk-through of the complete operation accompanied by key plant personnel. Review of general process performance and benchmark where appropriate. Detailed area-by-area review of the process plant aimed at identifying process constraints in terms of equipment and operating practice. This also includes a review of any process water related issues and tailings management. Design, plan, set up and carry out an appropriate, statistically robust plant sampling campaign around key areas of the flowsheet. For the duration of the sampling campaign it is extremely helpful if all plant and assay data including information from the control room are made available to FLSmidth. As soon as the team and samples return to FLSmidth’s Mineral Testing and Research Center, collation and analyses all the process information obtained from site and the analysis work and metallurgical testing will commence. Further to discussions with our customer we are available to advise on the implementation of any recommendations and arrange a follow-up visit to assess improvements.