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SLURRY ENGINEERING Engineered-to-order by Weir Minerals, Multiflo pontoons are commissioned at QIT Madagascar Minerals When a chrome mine in the Steelpoort area of South Africa recently experienced a challenge with a tailings dam overfilling with slurry sediment, it was Integrated Pump Rental and its SlurrySucker Maxi dredging unit that came to the rescue. “One of our mining customers had a tailings dam that was filled with slurry to over 110% of its capacity and the sediment needed to be remove to ensure optimum functioning of the tailings facility,” Lee Vine, Managing Director of Integrated Pump Rental, explains. Integrated Pump Rental’s SlurrySucker dredge units are suitable for dredging and cleaning water capture areas where silt or slimes has become an issue, or where water retention and water holding capacity in process ponds is being threatened. Equipped with a 37 kW Bravo 700 Grindex pump and with the capacity to pump 70 t/h of slurry, the SlurrySucker Maxi operates at an average of about 40% concentration, depending on factors such as the material’s specific gravity and how solid the sediment has become. Providing full service mining solutions and innovation around the world for over 55 years. EXPERIENCE • • • • Shaft Sinking Mine Development Contract Mining Raiseboring • • • • Raise Mining Underground Construction Engineering & Technical Services Specialty Services AFRICA | ASIA | AUSTRALIA EUROPE | NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Mining Contractors and Engineers Despite its capacity of 75 dry t/h, the SlurrySucker Maxi model’s compact design makes it simple to move and operate. It measures just 5.4 m in length and is 2.5 m wide and 3 m high Consider it done. redpathmining.com DECEMBER 2018 | International Mining 19