Scope of supply - Chemical Lab: The scope of supply includes fully automated crushing and splitting, pulverizing, fine pulverizing (-45 micron), automated density determination and automated XRF analysis.
Aliquots for wet chemical analysis are presented to the operator on an output magazine. The entire process is fully automated.
Sample Tower: This system is capable of automatically processing 40 kg to 160 kg samples. The system begins with the manual loading of moist iron ore samples, of +/-25 kg, into an infrared dryer conveyor hopper.
Once the hopper registers the correct mass the sample is automatically fed from the hopper through the drier. The dried sample is then automatically collected, weighed and lifted to the top of the tower where it is gravity fed through a system of crushers and splitters to produce a representative sample of 0.6 kg to 1 kg.
This is then ready for presentation to the IMP robotically automated laboratory for further sample preparation and chemical analysis.