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Decades of innovation elevate Warman® mill circuit pump
Doing duty as an integral part of a mine’s minerals extraction circuit, Weir Minerals’ Warman® mill circuit (MC) slurry pumps withstand the harshest conditions while delivering their...
Wear resistant lining solution reduces downtime and saves costs
A double-layered rubber lining solution installed on a mill discharge chute is said to have achieved a 250% wear life improvement compared to the competitor product. Weir Minerals Africa was asked...
Linatex wear resistant rubber lining cuts costs at Sentinel
Weir Minerals’ Linatex® Premium Rubber and Linard® 60 have significantly improved wear life at Kalumbila Minerals Limited’s Sentinel mine in Zambia, after the Weir Minerals Africa team was asked to...
Hard wall rubber hose reduces downtime and operating costs
A hard wall mining hose built for suction and discharge applications was recently installed at a treatment plant in Namibia, helping to reduce downtime and operating costs. The existing rubber...
Automatic lubrication reduces labour, costs
Since adding the Accumin range of lubrication systems to its portfolio of products and solutions in 2020, pumps original-equipment manufacturer Weir Minerals Africa says the system has generated...
Automatic lubrication protects pumps
Lubricating of pumps is considered to be a time consuming and labour-intensive process that can be difficult to control and to conduct with precision. Pump failure owing to lack of regular...
Linatex hose reduces downtime and operating costs at Namdeb
The installation by Weir Minerals Africa of a Linatex® 808 hard wall rubber hose with wear indicator system is reducing downtime and operating costs at Namdeb’s Sendelingsdrift treatment plant in...
Prevent costly downtimes by selecting correct valves
Selecting the correct type of valve for a given application is not only critical to plant uptime, but it will also assist in maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership on a plant or other...
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Seriti Green has R25bn to deploy in Mpumalanga but can’t get Eskom budget quotes
Last week renewable energy company Seriti Green received a budget quote from Eskom that it had applied for as long ago as February 2021 – that's the delay in obtaining collaboration from the State...
Nuclear regulator grants NRWDI licence to operate Vaalputs radioactive waste facility
South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has granted the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) the nuclear licence to manage and operate the Vaalputs National Radioactive...