4,000 TPD Dry Tailings Plant, including:
(8) Metso VPA 240-54 Vertical Plate Pressure Filters
- Up to 50 chambers (currently equipped with 24)
- 40mm chamber depth
- 165 litre per chamber
- 7.8 square meter filter area with 3.9 square meter drying area per chamber
- Approximately 15% product moisture ( /- 3-4%)
Each press is designed to filter from 25 to 250 MTPH of tailings (depending on material) and is offered with the following ancillary components:
- Gear spray lubrication system
- PLC for operation management
- Discharge cake chute with 2.0 m opening
- Air Receiver
- (2) Weir Horizontal Centrifugal Feed Pump
- 3 x 2, (1) fixed speed and (1) VFD pump
These units are part of a complete dry tailings
backfill plant including:
- (2) Outotech 24 meter thickeners
- All necessary pumps, tanks, agitators and compressors
- Cement mixing equipment
- Feed/discharge & overland conveyors