Consep - Engineering Innovation

Sampling of the Beast

November 2015

Consep is proud to be a long term supplier of sampling technology to Fortescue Metals Group.
On the 26th November 2015 The Australian Financial Review reported on ‘The Beast Saving Fortescue’. The beast they were referring to is the 60m high ore processing facilities (OPF’s) used to upgrade the iron ore at FMG’s Christmas Creek site, which use a wide array of Consep sampling technology to allow process monitoring and metallurgical accounting of the plant. The OPF’s have been core to the halving of FMG’s C1 operating costs.

Fortescue has improved its beneficiation processes to the extent that lower grade ore considered uneconomic just two years ago is now being processed and sold. The OPFs can now more easily extract iron and upgrade it to the required 58 per cent grade and remove unwanted impurities such as silica and alumina.
"The OPF technology is incredibly important because it allows us to continually lower the mining grades," chief executive Nev Power said.

"We are not putting relatively high iron units in the waste pile, we are mining that, processing it to upgrade it to product grades and then selling that."

Because of the changes at the OPFs, Fortescue can 'bulk mine' the Christmas Creek pits with excavators, which are essentially big shovels, in turn dramatically lowering its strip ratios and its operating costs.”

Consep supplied a wide range of samplers to the project, and subsequently to the Kings and Firetail operations, which allow the site to monitor the performance of the OPF’s. Click here to read more

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Award Winning Engineering Innovation

October 2015

In October 2015, Consep was awarded the 2015 Premier’s NSW Export Awards for the Category of Minerals, Energy and Related Services presented by the Export Council of Australia. The Award recognizes NSW companies and their contribution to the state and national economy.
Consep proceeded to the 2015, 53rd National Export Awards as National Finalists.

Roy Hill Project Case Study

September 2015

In June 2014 Consep were selected as the supplier of a complete sampling solution for the Roy Hill Processing Plant. The package supplied includes a wide range of solids and slurry samplers, feeders, crushers, sample collectors, chute work, as well as the electrical control systems for each sample station. A total of 14 sample stations were supplied by Consep.
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September Newsletter

September 2015

Consep September Newsletter is available to download. Please press the download link below to see up to date events and news.
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