Precious Metal Extraction Solutions

Precious Me Extraction

FLSmidth draws from the Metallurgical, Instrumentation, Mechanical and Mining Engineering, Structural Design, Project Management and Maintenance disciplines. Today, FLSmidth strives to provide competitive quality process engineering and equipment to the same industries rst envisioned in 1990. FLSmidth has installed equipment and completed engineering services in eight countries on four continents around the world. FLSmidth leads the world in gold electrolysis and mercury vacuum distillation and is a world leader in indirect red rotary kilns and packaged carbon strip systems.

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Electrowinning Cells

FLSmidth provides the largest electrowinning cells for the precious metals recovery industry with lower operating costs over the life of your plant than the competition.

(Above) Typical 4 Cell Single Train Installation (Left) 150 cu ft E/W Cell Installation showing ease of Access w/ Lid Open Note security locks on front

Key Features Cells are sludging design using FLSmidths patented high efciency basketless cathodes. Cathodes are 304 SS punched plate, wrapped in knitted stainless steel mesh. Anodes are 304 SS punched plates. Speciality materials and designs are available where adverse solution chemistry requires them. Sludge is harvested in-cell by direct washing from the cathodes. Cathodes and anodes remain in the cell for harvesting. Cells operate closed under a slight vacuum for excellent Industrial Hygiene (important where Ag or Hg is present) No external hoods or other ventilation systems are required for the cell area. Low maintenance and labour costs. Typical wash time 2 -3 hours once per week Cells lids open full width for access to electrodes. No heavy lifting required hence no overhead crane. Tanks are robust - 304 stainless steel with polypropylene liners submerged and bolted inside cell for insulation. Minimal re risk - cell is closed in operation and most plastic is submerged in electrolyte Compact design resulting in small installation footprint = lower construction costs. Cell design provides for all security, ventilation, and cathode washing activities to take place within the lidded cell, avoiding costs for cranage for lifting loaded cathodes from the cell, cathode washing tanks, and ventilation hoods. Basketless Cathodes FLSmidth offers a new electrowinning cell basketless cathode designed to decrease operator service time and decrease gold inventory in the cells while providing continued high cell efciencies characteristic of Summit Valley cells. Gold sludge servicing is performed in the cell by washing precious metal sludge from the cathodes with a pressure sprayer. Sludge is pumped from the cell bottom via. the sludge outlet ange to a sludge lter. Since the cathodes are serviced in the cell, less cathode handling is required during servicing. Less cathode handling decreases operator exposure to toxic metals when present in electrowinning solutions, i.e. mercury, arsenic, cadmium. The new electrodes eliminate the need for cathode baskets.

(Top) 50 cu. Ft. Cell w/Support Frame

(Bottom) Typical 4-cell two train installation

Carbon Regeneration Kilns

Our patented bellows kiln seal has proven effective in eliminating air ingress and process gas escape. This seal can also be placed into retrotted kilns.

(Above) 5 Metric ton fuel oil red carbon reactivation kiln (Right) 12 Metric ton fuel oil red carbon reactivation kiln

FLSmidth Kilns Feature: Sizes: 1 12 tonnes per day. Heating: Electric, LPG, or Fuel Oil systems Packages included feed hopper, dewatering feed screw, local control panel and quench tank Complete unit skid mounted for installation on at concrete oor Fired and tested before shipment. Effective low maintenance trunnion seals provide with 12-18 months life (Patented) Carbon burn is minimal Temperature range 600 - 750 C Long life 253 MA alloy tube Design uses entrained moisture in carbon to generate steam for regeneration.
(Top) Summit Valley patented kiln seal

FLSmidth designs and manufactures indirect heated carbon regeneration kilns and calciners from 1/2 ton per day and larger. Our kilns and calciners can be fuel gas, oil, or electric, and are skid mounted, pre-wired and pre-piped. We also design and fabricate the structural steel required for elevated installation. FLSmidths patented (US Patent 5,551,870) bellows kiln seal has proven effective in eliminating air ingress and process gas egress. We have retrotted clients kilns, from other manufacturers, to use this seal. Temperatures for carbon regeneration and time at temperature are important factors in regeneration of carbon. Drying prior to regeneration is counter-productive. (ref.: Activated Carbon for Precious Metals Recovery; William Faulker et al, Calgon Carbon Corp.; presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Society of Mining Engineers; Denver, CO; 1987). The steam generated from the feeding of wet carbon is found to be critical to obtaining good carbon activity during regeneration. Kilns with pre-dryers have been found to produce inferior results to kilns without pre-dryers. Under normal conditions, alloy RA252MA is the material of choice for carbon regeneration kiln tubes. This alloy offers good corrosion resistance and structural properties at the operating temperatures required for carbon regeneration.

(Bottom) Control panel mounted on kiln skid. The complete skid is pre-wired in the shop.

Mercury Retorts

Our latest generation of 30 and 40 ft3 electrically heated retorts have no equal for processing high volume, high mercury material such as Merrill-Crowe precipitates.

Summit Valley Mercury Retorts

FLSmidth manufactures mercury retorts and vacuum distillation ovens ranging from 0.5 cubic foot to 40 cubic feet material capacity. Both gas and electric models are available. Gas red retorts are of classic retort design with the retort being externally heated. Electrically heated retorts can be built as classic externally heated retorts, or internally heated vacuum distillation ovens. In general, the internally heated electric vacuum distillation ovens are the most economical design. However, the internally electric heated models do have some limitations when the retort feed materials contain elemental sulfur or sulde minerals that oxidize to produce sulfuric acid gas, which can attack the heating element material. Mercury condensing and handling systems are included with all retort systems. Custom condensing and mercury handling systems can be provided to meet specic customer requirements. Most retort systems designed and manufactured by FLSmidth have been tailored in some manner to meet specic customer requirements. FLSmidth can also supply closed loop refrigerated water systems for installations where adequate cooling water is not already available for the mercury condensers. FLSmidth designs to meet all North American and international mercury emissions standards. Our latest generation of 30 and 40 cubic foot internally electric heated retorts have no equal for processing high volume, high mercury materials such as Merrill-Crowe precipitates. These retorts have cycle times of approximately 24 hours and can produce a product that contains less than 0.01% mercury. By placing heating elements between the pans, all material is thoroughly heated, assuring proper mercury removal. Large volume, externally heated retorts may not achieve thorough material heating. One Summit Valley installation operates eight 30 cubic foot retorts, capable of treating up to 24,000 lb. per day of MerrillCrowe precipitate containing 20% mercury. At full production rates, 4,800 lb. per day of mercury is recovered. While FLSmidths largest retort market is for precious metals extraction and rening, We manufacture retorts for uorescent lamp powder recycling and hazardous waste processing. Additionally, FLSmidth has the expertise to tackle unusual retorting problems such as selenium and cadmium in the feed material.

(Top) Interior of 30 cubic foot capacity retorts shown during loading.

(Bottom) Mercury Retort - Fluorescent Tube Recycling Plant

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Merrill Crowe Plants

Our Merrill-Crowe plants are modular arrangements which require low levels of maintenance

(Above) Clarication Filter Installation 700 m3/hr plant (Right) 750 m/hr Merill Crowe Plant Zinc Feeder/Precip Pump area

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Features Plant capacities range from skid mounted 3.4 m3/hr modular plants to full size 2100 m3/hr noting that due to de-aeration tower transportation and fabrication limits plants larger than 700 m3/hr generally consist of two or three modules e.g. the 2100 m3/hr plant cited above consisted of three 700 m3/hr parallel streams The range of supply for plants includes clarication lters, de-aeration tower(s), vacuum pump(s), zinc dust feeder , lead nitrate feeders and zinc cone, precipitate lter feed pumps, lter pre-coat and body feed systems, and precipitate lters followed by renery and smelting facilities to produce gold bullion. Application is principally to treat high silver bearing gold ores(>5:1 Ag/Au ratio) Plants incorporate Summit Valleys proprietary zinc dust/lead nitrate feeder and mixing cone system FLSmidth offers individual plant components, and partial or complete plant equipment packages, together with total plant design G.A.s, P.&I.Ds, foundation and concrete design, pipe and steel fabrication drawings (detail by fabricators), and even buildings and furniture etc for the plant and supporting facilities as required

(Top) 3.4 cu m/hr Skid Mounted Plant.

(Bottom) Deaeration Tower 700 m3/hr plant

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Integrated Gold Room and Plant Packages

In addition to the supply of individual items of equipment FLSmidth provides integrated design and supply packages for complete areas of plants

FLSmidth has considerable experience in the design and supply of integrated packages for these areas and is able to provide the following services in support of these packages: Complete Flow sheet development, P&IDs, Piping and Electrical requirements and Plant area layout GAs Equipment specication, sizing, and supply Detailed Concrete, Structural steelwork, Piping, Electrical, and Building designs Local Fabrication and Procurement of piping structural steel

In some cases these will be stand-alone plants and, in others cases, integrated sections designed to t in with existing designs and facilities in the clients related plant areas. To the extent possible FLSmidth uses existing designs and packages from other projects to expedite the design, construction and procurement in these packages to reduce not only engineering and design costs but also to shorten times for the plant schedules. In these areas FLSmidth typically works very closely with the client and their EPCM engineers.

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Merrill Crowe Plant Packages Typically these will include the following major components 1. Clarication lters 2. De-aeration Tower and vacuum pump(s) 3. Zinc feeder and Lead Nitrate addition systems 4. Precipitation Filter feed pumps 5. Precipitate Filters 6. Pre-coat and body feed tank(s) and pumping systems for the clarication and precipitate lters 7. Precipitate smelting and gold rening systems including ux mixing, drying ovens, smelting furnace, molds, slag pots, ventilation and merury removal systems as required 8. Engineering and design for concrete, piping, structural steel, tankage, instrumentation, electrical, ventilation and building enclosure.

Carbon Adsorption Plant Packages FLSmidth has considerable experience in the design of Carbon Adsorption Plants in capacities ranging from primary gold recovery to scavenging and clean up of heap leach mine sites after operations have been completed. Effectively they are applicable wherever gold and silver are to be recovered from lower grade clear solutions. Typically these will include: 1. Countercurrent Carbon contact/ adsorption tanks and/or multistage columns. 2. Carbon elution column systems with supporting screens, strip solution heating and heat exchanger packages. 3. Electro-winning cells and rectiers. 4. Sludge lters, drying ovens, and smelting equipment. 5. Carbon regeneration kiln 6. Carbon acid wash system 7. Engineering and design for complete layout, concrete, piping, structural steel, tankage,

instrumentation, electrical, ventilation and building enclosure as required. Carbon Elution and Electrowinning Packages FLSmidth holds patents for two signicant developments in this area namely the development of the Basketless Cathode (sludging) cell and the innovative split Zadra carbon elution process. Typically this package will include: 1. Carbon screen 2. Elution column (s) 3. Strip solution heating skid 4. Heat exchanger skid 5. Stainless steel basketless cathode (sludging) electro-winning cells and rectiers 6. Sludge pump and lter system 7. Supporting ventilation systems 8. Supporting tanks and pipework. 9. Structural steel, piping, electrics and instrumentation as required

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Mercury Removal and Recovery Plants FLSmidth designs and supplies vacuum retort mercury recovery systems. The incoming material is dried, pulverised and loaded into trays for insertion into the vacuum retort. The mercury volatilizes and is subsequently cooled and condensed with chilled water and recovered as liquid mercury into asks. The remaining gas is scrubbed in a sulphidised carbon tower where mercury levels are reduced to EPA levels. The vacuum system ensured that there is no leakage of mercury into the atmosphere from the retort. These retorts are used for treating gold sludges afrom electrowinning circuits and also for cleaning up industrial wastes e.g. uorescent tubes The carbon scrubbing system is also used for cleaning up off gas from heated tanks and also for treating kiln off gas as required.

Typically this package will include a material preparation section where the incoming material to be treated will be crushed and pulverised, and loaded into trays for insertion into the retort. Upon completion of the cycle these trays are removed and the cleaned material passed on the remaining process steps. Typically this package will include: 1. Material preparation (crushing/ pulverization) for industrial wastes but not required for E.W sludge 2. Suitable trays to hold the material for insertion into the retort 3. An electric heated retort oven 4. A two stage mercury condensation section 5. Sulphidised nal gas scrubbing column 6. Supporting bins and material handling systems for the spent material 7. Mercury asks to hold the product for subsequent sale

Complete Gold Electrowinning and Rening Packages FLSmidth will design and supply complete integrated area packages for the stripping of the carbon, the electro-winning and recovery the gold from the strip solutions, ltration, drying and smelting of the resultant sludge from the E/W process, the regeneration of the carbon in a horizontal kiln and the acid washing of the reactivated carbon before returning it to the leach circuits. Typically this package would include: 1. Initial Carbon screen 2. Elution column(s) 3. Heating system skid 4. Heat exchanger skid (sometimes combined) 5. Stainless steel basketless cathode (sludging) electro-winning cells and rectiers 6. Sludge lter feed pump and plate and frame lter 7. Drying oven 8. Flux mixing system (if required)

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9. Smelting furnace 10. Bullion Molds 11. Slag pots 12. Bullion Safe 13. Stripped carbon dewatering screen, and holding tank 14. Carbon Feed bin and kiln feed screw system w/nal dewatering screen 15. Horizontal carbon regeneration kiln 16. Carbon Quench tank 17. Acid Wash column 18. Supporting ventilation systems 19. Supporting tanks and pipe work. 20. Miscellaneous required equipment e.g. safety showers, security systems etc 21. Structural steel, piping, electrics, instrumentation security systems design as required 22. Area building design if required. 23. Design drawings and layouts required for concrete, structural steel, P&IDs, electrical, piping

Integrated Package and Plant Benets 1. Integrated systems are designed for all components to work effectively together with high efciency. 2. Summit Valley equipment has OEM agreements with most external suppliers and prices accordingly. 3. Designs are based on existing engineering drawings and layouts from previous projects reducing engineering costs. 4. Layouts consider operator and maintenance requirements for efcient operation as well as appropriate vehicular and maintenance equipment access. 5. Integrated plant package reduces commissioning time and expenses during start up time. 6. All equipment provided has been tried and tested in other installations ensuring reliability and suitability for the purposes. 7. Summit Valley equipment is designed to provide process efciency, minimise labour and maintenance manpower requirements and can be installed in compact layouts. 8. Proprietary Summit Valley designs for the elution/electro-winning circuit can provide energy savings of 25% over conventional design.

9. FLSmidth will work with the major engineering rms to incorporate our designs and equipment effectively into the overall plant design. 10. Large engineering rms we have done packages with include: Fluor Corp. Aker Kvaerner (Aker Solutions) SNC Lavalin Ausenco 11. Benets for the client include: Lower engineering, procurement and process design costs Access to FLSmidth knowledge and experience with recovery of metals from cyanide solutions in a broad range of processes and conditions. Efcient and faster engineering and procurement processes. Designs are optimised for the specic solution tenors and chemistry at the site. Efcient and compact layouts. Reliable and easily maintained equipment with good performance history in other installations we have done

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FLSmidth Summit Valley FLSmidth Salt Lake City, Inc. 7158 S. FLSmidth Dr. Midvale, UT 84047-5559 USA Tel: +1 801 871 7000 Fax: +1 801 871 7001 Email: info.slc@smidth.com

Copyright 2012 FLSmidth A/S. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FLSmidth is a (registered) trademark of FLSmidth A/S. This brochure makes no offers, representations or warranties (express or implied), and information and data contained in this brochure are for general reference only and may change at any time.

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Minerals Processing Technology Center FLSmidth Salt Lake City, Inc. 7158 S. FLSmidth Dr. Midvale, UT 84047-5559 USA Tel: +1 801 871 7000 Fax: +1 801 871 7001 Email: info.slc@smidth.com

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Smelting furnace Bullion Molds Slag pots Bullion Safe Stripped carbon dewatering screen, and holding tank Carbon Feed bin and kiln feed screw system w/nal dewatering screen Horizontal carbon regeneration kiln Carbon Quench tank Acid Wash column Supporting ventilation systems Supporting tanks and pipe work. Miscellaneous required equipment e.g. safety showers, security systems etc Structural steel, piping, electrics, instrumentation security systems design as required Area building design if required. Design drawings and layouts required for concrete, structural steel, P&IDs, electrical, piping

Integrated Package and Plant Benets 1. Integrated systems are designed for all components to work effectively together with high efciency. 2. Summit Valley equipment has OEM agreements with most external suppliers and prices accordingly. 3. Designs are based on existing engineering drawings and layouts from previous projects reducing engineering costs. 4. Layouts consider operator and maintenance requirements for efcient operation as well as appropriate vehicular and maintenance equipment access. 5. Integrated plant package reduces commissioning time and expenses during start up time. 6. All equipment provided has been tried and tested in other installations ensuring reliability and suitability for the purposes. 7. Summit Valley equipment is designed to provide process efciency, minimise labour and maintenance manpower requirements and can be installed in compact layouts. 8. Proprietary Summit Valley designs for the elution/electro-winning circuit can provide energy savings of 25% over conventional design.

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FLSmidth will work with the major engineering rms to incorporate our designs and equipment effectively into the overall plant design. 10. Large engineering rms we have done packages with include: Fluor Corp. Aker Kvaerner (Aker Solutions) SNC Lavalin Ausenco 11. Benets for the client include: Lower engineering, procurement and process design costs Access to FLSmidth knowledge and experience with recovery of metals from cyanide solutions in a broad range of processes and conditions. Efcient and faster engineering and procurement processes. Designs are optimised for the specic solution tenors and chemistry at the site. Efcient and compact layouts. Reliable and easily maintained equipment with good performance history in other installations we have done

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Mercury Removal and Recovery Plants FLSmidth designs and supplies vacuum retort mercury recovery systems. The incoming material is dried, pulverised and loaded into trays for insertion into the vacuum retort. The mercury volatilizes and is subsequently cooled and condensed with chilled water and recovered as liquid mercury into asks. The remaining gas is scrubbed in a sulphidised carbon tower where mercury levels are reduced to EPA levels. The vacuum system ensured that there is no leakage of mercury into the atmosphere from the retort. These retorts are used for treating gold sludges afrom electrowinning circuits and also for cleaning up industrial wastes e.g. uorescent tubes The carbon scrubbing system is also used for cleaning up off gas from heated tanks and also for treating kiln off gas as required.

Typically this package will include a material preparation section where the incoming material to be treated will be crushed and pulverised, and loaded into trays for insertion into the retort. Upon completion of the cycle these trays are removed and the cleaned material passed on the remaining process steps. Typically this package will include: 1. Material preparation (crushing/ pulverization) for industrial wastes but not required for E.W sludge 2. Suitable trays to hold the material for insertion into the retort 3. An electric heated retort oven 4. A two stage mercury condensation section 5. Sulphidised nal gas scrubbing column 6. Supporting bins and material handling systems for the spent material 7. Mercury asks to hold the product for subsequent sale

Complete Gold Electrowinning and Rening Packages FLSmidth will design and supply complete integrated area packages for the stripping of the carbon, the electro-winning and recovery the gold from the strip solutions, ltration, drying and smelting of the resultant sludge from the E/W process, the regeneration of the carbon in a horizontal kiln and the acid washing of the reactivated carbon before returning it to the leach circuits. Typically this package would include: 1. Initial Carbon screen 2. Elution column(s) 3. Heating system skid 4. Heat exchanger skid (sometimes combined) 5. Stainless steel basketless cathode (sludging) electro-winning cells and rectiers 6. Sludge lter feed pump and plate and frame lter 7. Drying oven 8. Flux mixing system (if required)

FLSmidth draws from the Metallurgical, Instrumentation, Mechanical and Mining Engineering, Structural Design, Project Management and Maintenance disciplines. Today, FLSmidth strives to provide competitive quality process engineering and equipment to the same industries rst envisioned in 1990. FLSmidth has installed equipment and completed engineering services in eight countries on four continents around the world. FLSmidth leads the world in gold electrolysis and mercury vacuum distillation and is a world leader in indirect red rotary kilns and packaged carbon strip systems.

FLSmidth Engineering & Services

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Project and Construction Management Modular and Stick-Built Plant Design, Construction, Start-Up and Maintenance Modular Plant and Equipment Packages Process, Metallurgical, Mechanical, and Instrumentation & Control Engineering Maintenance Program Implementation Combustion Control and Instrumentation Structural and Piping Design and Layout

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ADR Plant for Power Generation, Distribution & Supplies, and Material Delivery Systems

Electrowinning Cells

FLSmidth provides the largest electrowinning cells for the precious metals recovery industry with lower operating costs over the life of your plant than the competition.

(Above) Typical 4 Cell Single Train Installation (Left) 150 cu ft E/W Cell Installation showing ease of Access w/ Lid Open Note security locks on front

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Merrill Crowe Plant Packages Typically these will include the following major components 1. Clarication lters 2. De-aeration Tower and vacuum pump(s) 3. Zinc feeder and Lead Nitrate addition systems 4. Precipitation Filter feed pumps 5. Precipitate Filters 6. Pre-coat and body feed tank(s) and pumping systems for the clarication and precipitate lters 7. Precipitate smelting and gold rening systems including ux mixing, drying ovens, smelting furnace, molds, slag pots, ventilation and merury removal systems as required 8. Engineering and design for concrete, piping, structural steel, tankage, instrumentation, electrical, ventilation and building enclosure.

Carbon Adsorption Plant Packages FLSmidth has considerable experience in the design of Carbon Adsorption Plants in capacities ranging from primary gold recovery to scavenging and clean up of heap leach mine sites after operations have been completed. Effectively they are applicable wherever gold and silver are to be recovered from lower grade clear solutions. Typically these will include: 1. Countercurrent Carbon contact/ adsorption tanks and/or multistage columns. 2. Carbon elution column systems with supporting screens, strip solution heating and heat exchanger packages. 3. Electro-winning cells and rectiers. 4. Sludge lters, drying ovens, and smelting equipment. 5. Carbon regeneration kiln 6. Carbon acid wash system 7. Engineering and design for complete layout, concrete, piping, structural steel, tankage,

instrumentation, electrical, ventilation and building enclosure as required. Carbon Elution and Electrowinning Packages FLSmidth holds patents for two signicant developments in this area namely the development of the Basketless Cathode (sludging) cell and the innovative split Zadra carbon elution process. Typically this package will include: 1. Carbon screen 2. Elution column (s) 3. Strip solution heating skid 4. Heat exchanger skid 5. Stainless steel basketless cathode (sludging) electro-winning cells and rectiers 6. Sludge pump and lter system 7. Supporting ventilation systems 8. Supporting tanks and pipework. 9. Structural steel, piping, electrics and instrumentation as required

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Integrated Gold Room and Plant Packages

In addition to the supply of individual items of equipment FLSmidth provides integrated design and supply packages for complete areas of plants

FLSmidth has considerable experience in the design and supply of integrated packages for these areas and is able to provide the following services in support of these packages: Complete Flow sheet development, P&IDs, Piping and Electrical requirements and Plant area layout GAs Equipment specication, sizing, and supply Detailed Concrete, Structural steelwork, Piping, Electrical, and Building designs Local Fabrication and Procurement of piping structural steel

In some cases these will be stand-alone plants and, in others cases, integrated sections designed to t in with existing designs and facilities in the clients related plant areas. To the extent possible FLSmidth uses existing designs and packages from other projects to expedite the design, construction and procurement in these packages to reduce not only engineering and design costs but also to shorten times for the plant schedules. In these areas FLSmidth typically works very closely with the client and their EPCM engineers.

Key Features Cells are sludging design using FLSmidths patented high efciency basketless cathodes. Cathodes are 304 SS punched plate, wrapped in knitted stainless steel mesh. Anodes are 304 SS punched plates. Speciality materials and designs are available where adverse solution chemistry requires them. Sludge is harvested in-cell by direct washing from the cathodes. Cathodes and anodes remain in the cell for harvesting. Cells operate closed under a slight vacuum for excellent Industrial Hygiene (important where Ag or Hg is present) No external hoods or other ventilation systems are required for the cell area. Low maintenance and labour costs. Typical wash time 2 -3 hours once per week Cells lids open full width for access to electrodes. No heavy lifting required hence no overhead crane. Tanks are robust - 304 stainless steel with polypropylene liners submerged and bolted inside cell for insulation. Minimal re risk - cell is closed in operation and most plastic is submerged in electrolyte Compact design resulting in small installation footprint = lower construction costs. Cell design provides for all security, ventilation, and cathode washing activities to take place within the lidded cell, avoiding costs for cranage for lifting loaded cathodes from the cell, cathode washing tanks, and ventilation hoods. Basketless Cathodes FLSmidth offers a new electrowinning cell basketless cathode designed to decrease operator service time and decrease gold inventory in the cells while providing continued high cell efciencies characteristic of Summit Valley cells. Gold sludge servicing is performed in the cell by washing precious metal sludge from the cathodes with a pressure sprayer. Sludge is pumped from the cell bottom via. the sludge outlet ange to a sludge lter. Since the cathodes are serviced in the cell, less cathode handling is required during servicing. Less cathode handling decreases operator exposure to toxic metals when present in electrowinning solutions, i.e. mercury, arsenic, cadmium. The new electrodes eliminate the need for cathode baskets.

(Top) 50 cu. Ft. Cell w/Support Frame

(Bottom) Typical 4-cell two train installation

Carbon Regeneration Kilns

Our patented bellows kiln seal has proven effective in eliminating air ingress and process gas escape. This seal can also be placed into retrotted kilns.

(Above) 5 Metric ton fuel oil red carbon reactivation kiln (Right) 12 Metric ton fuel oil red carbon reactivation kiln

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Features Plant capacities range from skid mounted 3.4 m3/hr modular plants to full size 2100 m3/hr noting that due to de-aeration tower transportation and fabrication limits plants larger than 700 m3/hr generally consist of two or three modules e.g. the 2100 m3/hr plant cited above consisted of three 700 m3/hr parallel streams The range of supply for plants includes clarication lters, de-aeration tower(s), vacuum pump(s), zinc dust feeder , lead nitrate feeders and zinc cone, precipitate lter feed pumps, lter pre-coat and body feed systems, and precipitate lters followed by renery and smelting facilities to produce gold bullion. Application is principally to treat high silver bearing gold ores(>5:1 Ag/Au ratio) Plants incorporate Summit Valleys proprietary zinc dust/lead nitrate feeder and mixing cone system FLSmidth offers individual plant components, and partial or complete plant equipment packages, together with total plant design G.A.s, P.&I.Ds, foundation and concrete design, pipe and steel fabrication drawings (detail by fabricators), and even buildings and furniture etc for the plant and supporting facilities as required

(Top) 3.4 cu m/hr Skid Mounted Plant.

(Bottom) Deaeration Tower 700 m3/hr plant

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Merrill Crowe Plants

Our Merrill-Crowe plants are modular arrangements which require low levels of maintenance

(Above) Clarication Filter Installation 700 m3/hr plant (Right) 750 m/hr Merill Crowe Plant Zinc Feeder/Precip Pump area

FLSmidth Kilns Feature: Sizes: 1 12 tonnes per day. Heating: Electric, LPG, or Fuel Oil systems Packages included feed hopper, dewatering feed screw, local control panel and quench tank Complete unit skid mounted for installation on at concrete oor Fired and tested before shipment. Effective low maintenance trunnion seals provide with 12-18 months life (Patented) Carbon burn is minimal Temperature range 600 - 750 C Long life 253 MA alloy tube Design uses entrained moisture in carbon to generate steam for regeneration.
(Top) Summit Valley patented kiln seal

FLSmidth designs and manufactures indirect heated carbon regeneration kilns and calciners from 1/2 ton per day and larger. Our kilns and calciners can be fuel gas, oil, or electric, and are skid mounted, pre-wired and pre-piped. We also design and fabricate the structural steel required for elevated installation. FLSmidths patented (US Patent 5,551,870) bellows kiln seal has proven effective in eliminating air ingress and process gas egress. We have retrotted clients kilns, from other manufacturers, to use this seal. Temperatures for carbon regeneration and time at temperature are important factors in regeneration of carbon. Drying prior to regeneration is counter-productive. (ref.: Activated Carbon for Precious Metals Recovery; William Faulker et al, Calgon Carbon Corp.; presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Society of Mining Engineers; Denver, CO; 1987). The steam generated from the feeding of wet carbon is found to be critical to obtaining good carbon activity during regeneration. Kilns with pre-dryers have been found to produce inferior results to kilns without pre-dryers. Under normal conditions, alloy RA252MA is the material of choice for carbon regeneration kiln tubes. This alloy offers good corrosion resistance and structural properties at the operating temperatures required for carbon regeneration.

(Bottom) Control panel mounted on kiln skid. The complete skid is pre-wired in the shop.

Mercury Retorts

Our latest generation of 30 and 40 ft3 electrically heated retorts have no equal for processing high volume, high mercury material such as Merrill-Crowe precipitates.

Summit Valley Mercury Retorts

FLSmidth manufactures mercury retorts and vacuum distillation ovens ranging from 0.5 cubic foot to 40 cubic feet material capacity. Both gas and electric models are available. Gas red retorts are of classic retort design with the retort being externally heated. Electrically heated retorts can be built as classic externally heated retorts, or internally heated vacuum distillation ovens. In general, the internally heated electric vacuum distillation ovens are the most economical design. However, the internally electric heated models do have some limitations when the retort feed materials contain elemental sulfur or sulde minerals that oxidize to produce sulfuric acid gas, which can attack the heating element material. Mercury condensing and handling systems are included with all retort systems. Custom condensing and mercury handling systems can be provided to meet specic customer requirements. Most retort systems designed and manufactured by FLSmidth have been tailored in some manner to meet specic customer requirements. FLSmidth can also supply closed loop refrigerated water systems for installations where adequate cooling water is not already available for the mercury condensers. FLSmidth designs to meet all North American and international mercury emissions standards. Our latest generation of 30 and 40 cubic foot internally electric heated retorts have no equal for processing high volume, high mercury materials such as Merrill-Crowe precipitates. These retorts have cycle times of approximately 24 hours and can produce a product that contains less than 0.01% mercury. By placing heating elements between the pans, all material is thoroughly heated, assuring proper mercury removal. Large volume, externally heated retorts may not achieve thorough material heating. One Summit Valley installation operates eight 30 cubic foot retorts, capable of treating up to 24,000 lb. per day of MerrillCrowe precipitate containing 20% mercury. At full production rates, 4,800 lb. per day of mercury is recovered. While FLSmidths largest retort market is for precious metals extraction and rening, We manufacture retorts for uorescent lamp powder recycling and hazardous waste processing. Additionally, FLSmidth has the expertise to tackle unusual retorting problems such as selenium and cadmium in the feed material.

(Top) Interior of 30 cubic foot capacity retorts shown during loading.

(Bottom) Mercury Retort - Fluorescent Tube Recycling Plant