Mining & Minerals

Mines, smelters, and quarries handle materials with a wide range of flow characteristics. Worldwide consumption of steel, aluminum, and electronics has significantly increased the mining demand for precious metals, base metals, and mineral commodities.

With increased demand comes the need for reliable material handling in the Mining and Minerals industries.  Whether it is stockpiles, dump hoppers, ore-passes, surge bins or belt-to-belt transfer chutes, proven, practical solutions are available to improve handling of ores and concentrates.

Mining & Minerals Services

Whether you are mining iron ore, bauxite, copper or gold ore, Jenike & Johanson helps facilities worldwide keep materials flowing reliably (mass flow), providing higher throughputs and increased profits.

Common Mining & Minerals Industry Challenges

At the mine site, the run-of-mine (ROM) ore, as well as crushed ore, needs to be stored, reclaimed, and conveyed reliably, whereas at the processing plant, the concentrate needs to be fed reliably to furnaces, calciners, roasters, or smelters.  Moisture content, time of storage, particle size distribution, and impurities (such as clay) can drastically alter the reliability of material flow through a handling system.  Poor flow will interrupt process uniformity and increase the costs for the mining operation.  Particle size segregation in stockpiles and bins can cause problems particularly when handling erratic concentration of fines.  Segregation can lead to problems in uniform feeding to pyro-processing or hydrometallurgical operations.  Many ores and mineral oxides attack hoppers and transfer chutes causing rapid abrasive wear.  Fine concentrates and powders can be prone to flooding (flushing), creating poor process control.  Gravity reclaim stockpiles often experience ratholing, resulting in severely restricted “live” capacity.

Below is a shortened list of the bulk materials we have successfully handled in the Mining & Minerals industry to date. Please note the below list is just a small sampling of the materials we've handled for clients in the Mining & Minerals industry. Common Materials Handled

  • Iron ore, iron ore concentrate, DRI
  • Bauxite, refined alumina
  • Limestone, lime
  • Copper ore, copper concentrate
  • Trona ore, soda ash
  • Potash (K2O)
  • Precious metals (gold, platinum, silver)
  • Base metals (nickel, lead, zinc)
  • Coal and coke
  • Alumina
  • Amorphous Silica
  • Asbestos (rock, fiber)
  • Bauxite
  • Borax (anhydrous)
  • Clay (kaolin, talc)
  • Coal (bituminous, anthracite, etc.)
  • Cobalt
  • Copper (ore, concentrate)
  • Diatomaceous earth
  • Dolomite (burnt)
  • Feldspar
  • Flint
  • Flourite
  • Foundry sand
  • Gold
  • Granite
  • Gravel
  • Gypsum
  • Iron ore fines
  • Iron ore rock
  • Iron ore briquettes
  • Hydrated lime
  • Lead
  • Lithium
  • Lime (burnt, pebble, caustic)
  • Limestone
  • Magnatite
  • Magnesite
  • Manganese
  • Melamine
  • Mica
  • Molybdenum
  • Nickel (ore, concentrate)
  • Perlite
  • Phosphate (rock, fines, ore)
  • Platinum
  • Potash salt
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz sand
  • Quartzite
  • Quicklime
  • Refractory ore
  • Rock salt (halite)
  • Sand
  • Silver
  • Shale
  • Sumas
  • Silica gel
  • Silica sand
  • Silicon crystals
  • Silicon dioxide
  • Soapstone
  • Soda ash
  • Stone dust
  • Tantalum
  • Titanium
  • Trona (soda ash)
  • Tungsten oxide/carbon mix
  • Uranium (ore, concentrate)
  • Vanadium
  • Volcanic ash
  • Wollastonite
  • Zeolite
  • ZInc
  • Zircon

Some of the clients who we have successfully provided bulk material engineering services for in the Mining and Minerals industries. Mining & Minerals Industry Clients

  • BHP
  • Rio Tinto
  • CVRD (Vale)
  • Potash Corp.
  • Anglo American
  • US Gypsum
  • Atlantic Copper
  • Engelhard
  • Kennecott Copper
  • AECOM
  • Agnico Eagle
  • Agrium
  • AMEC
  • Anatolia Minerals
  • Anglo
  • Arava Mines
  • Ausenco
  • Barretts Minerals
  • Barrick Goldstrike Mines
  • BlackRock Metals
  • BHP Biliton
  • BHP Copper
  • Boke Trading
  • Boyne Smelters Ltd.
  • Carbones del Cerrejon
  • Xstrata
  • Cliffs Natural Resources
  • Cortez
  • Falconbridge Ltd.
  • FMC Corp.
  • Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold
  • Glamis Gold
  • Gold Fields La Cima SA
  • Rio Tinto
  • Hatch Ltd.
  • IMC Kalium
  • Inmet Mining
  • Iron Ore Company of Canada
  • Jacobs Engineering
  • Newmont Mining
  • Kinross Gold
  • Mineracao Taboca SA
  • Moa Nickel SA
  • Molcorp Minerals LLC
  • The Mosaic Company
  • New Gold Inc.
  • PT Freeport
  • Penoles
  • Searles Valley Minerals
  • SNC Lavalin
  • Solvay Minerals
  • Stillwater Mining
  • Teck Cominco
  • Thyssen Krupp
  • Vulcan Minerals
  • Yamana Gold
  •  American Olean
  • Armstrong World Industries
  • Cabot
  • Camargo Correa Industrial, Brazil
  • CertainTeed
  • Degussa, Germany
  • Elk Roofing
  • Engelhard
  • FMC
  • Fuller Company
  • Great Lakes Carbon
  • Harbison Walker
  • Lafarge
  • Lafarge Canada
  • Lockheed
  • Minproc Technologies
  • Negev Phosphates, Israel
  • Norwegian Talc, Norway
  • Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Rotem Fertilizer, Israel
  • Solvay Minerals
  • Tamko
  • Tenneco Minerals
  • U.S. Borax & Chemical
  • U.S. Gypsum
  • Vulcan Materials
  • Westvaco