Another Order - Allmineral Supplies More Alljigs® in South Africa
18 October 2006
It was an order that led to others: by the end of 2005, the South African mining company »Sishen Iron Ore Company« signed a contract for the delivery of 18 alljigs® from allmineral in South Africa, whose Principal is located in Duisburg, Germany. Kumba has now ordered six more jigging machines from allmineral in Johannesburg for the Sishen expansion project in South Africa, demonstrating its continued confidence in the competence and experience of the experts at allmineral.
The alljigs® will be installed as part of an extension of the Sishen Expansion Project; the number of modules have now been increased from six to eight. The 4,000 tons per hour system which will now include 24 alljig® units, will be the largest of its kind in the world and is scheduled to begin operation in April 2007. This expansion will increase the present production of iron ore significantly and also increase exports: as of 2008 roughly 37 million tons will be exported annually. To handle all of this; in addition to the capacity on the existing 860 kilometers Sishen to Saldanha railway line being increased, the harbour facilities at Saldanha will also be expanded.
The leading supplier of jigging machines worldwide
The decision of SIOC’s management to purchase additional jigging systems from allmineral was primarily due to the high degree of precision facilitated by the simple, yet advanced control systems for the beneficiation of iron ore facilitated by the alljigs®. With these systems the South African company – the fourth largest iron ore producer in the world and the largest in Africa – plans to extract high-value product from resources which up to now have been considered to be of a lesser grade.
This success once again makes the position of allmineral as the world's leading supplier of jigging machines clear. Systems designed in Duisburg, Germany are in use across Europe, India, Australia, the USA and Africa. The company has delivered more than 300 alljigs® to date; they are in use for various applications ranging from iron ore, to coal, sand and gravel, as well as the recovery of metal from slag.
The ongoing development and optimisation of the allmineral technology led to the introduction of the allair® jig; an air-jigging machine, used exclusively for dry applications. This technology has now been successfully introduced into the market; thirty-six of these units, developed primarily for the coal industry, are already in operation in the USA, Spain, Colombia and India.
