Diamond Mining Materials and Equipments

19 Mar.,2024

 

Bulldozer

Description: Needless to introduce this machine which is essential in any mining operation.

Price in USD: Approximately 300,000 to 500,000 euros for a new bulldozer of medium size.

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Compactor

Description: Essential machine for the compressing and the stabilization of the ground before the passage of other equipments such as the trucks.

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Conveyor

Description: Essential equipment for handling products in bulk, such as the ore. There are conveyors with belts, scrapers, etc...

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Crusher

Description: These machines are essential in certain mining operations where it is necessary to resort to an operation of granulometric reduction. They can be fixed or mobile, you can find jaw crushers, gyratories, cones, etc.

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Dense Media Separation

Description: This equipment is used for the industrial operations. The dense media separation treatment permits to separate the various components from an ore by using their differences of specific density. Various models exist: drums, cones and cyclones.

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Dragline

Description: The dragline excavator is sometime a judicious choice for mining. Various models exist, from 24 m to 61 m booms with a bucket capacity of 3 m3 to 12 m3 and more.

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Dredge

Description: The Dragor 6 equipment, depending on the hardness of the floor bottom, allows an extraction average of 7 to 10 cubic meters per hour of stelled gravels with a depth of down to 10 meters. These materials are sorted out by density difference and 95% of heavy materials above 80 micromilimeters are collected. Runing on the same basis as the Dragor 6, Dragor 4 is smaller and allows to prospect the bed of gold gravel rivers. It is easy to dismantle to overpass obstacles. It makes it particurlarly efficient in rough river beds.

Price in USD: 15,000 to 55,000 euros.

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Drilling Machines

Description: The drilling machines are used for the following applications: geotechnics, geophysics, micro piling, water well drilling.

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Electrical Generators

Description: They can be used for all mining operation and infrastructures on the mining site. The power of these electrical generators is very variable.

Price in USD: Approximately 80,000 euros for an electrical generator of 300 KVA * Approximately 10,000 euros for an electrical generator of 50 KVA.

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Excavator

Description: Needless to introduce the hydraulic excavator, essential equipment in any mining operation. The range of the hydraulic excavator is very vast.

Price in USD: A new model of averag range cost approximately 200,000 euros. *A used model cost between 40,000 and 60,000 euros.

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Explosives

Description: In certain mining operations sometimes it is necessary to use explosives.

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Feeder

Description: The feeder can be used to supply a screening machine in order to have a good distribution of the product over the width of the grid. There are feeders precriblor and vibrating.

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Grease Table

Description: The grease table is very much used for the recovery of diamonds. Diamond is the only mineral which sticks to grease. The conveyor belt with the grease attrack the diamonds, which is the only mineral sticking to grease. Thereafter the grease is collected with the diamonds and final step is to dissolve the grease to collect the diamonds.

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Handling, Storage

Description: The material for handling and storing is made up of: conveyors, excavators, hoppers, etc...

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Jig

Description: The jig is used for the gravimetric separation of solid minerals. The principle of the jig is the action of vertical movements with water going through a volume of ore. These vibrations and movements will separate the crushed ore by density. The capacity can vary from 0.5 to 50 tons/hour.

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Loader

Description: The loaders are used for loading trucks. The last models have many electronic devices. There are wheel loaders or track loaders.

Price in USD: Approximately 500,000 to 2,500,000 euros for new material.*Approximately 15,000 euros for a loader with cup of 800 L, second-hand equipment.

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Mobile Washing Plant

Description: The mobile washing plant can be used for diamondiferous mining operations. The Soditra-Sodiloc company designs and manufactures diamond mobile washing plants, they are autonomous and have a processing capacity of 6 m3/h.

Price in USD: 23,000 to 30,000 euros.

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Motor Grader

Description: This machine is used for the finish or long pass grading to ditch cleaning or sideslope work.

Price in USD: Approximately 450,000 euros for top material.

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Off Highway Trucks (dumpers)

Description: There are two kinds of trucks: articulated or rigid. They are used for work in mine and quarry constructions. The capacity of the buckets can be considerable, it can reach capacities of more than 200 metric tons.

Price in USD: Approximately 600,000 euros for a new rigid dumper of medium size.

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Portable Buildings

Description: The portable buildings can be very useful on the operation site. For personnel, kitchens, offices, etc...

Price in USD: Approximately 85,000 euros for a building of 8 rooms and 1 medical room.*Approximately 35,000 euros for a canteen and kitchen.*Approximately 6,500 euros for a building of 15 m2.

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Pump

Description: There are various pumps: submersible, horizontal, vertical, etc...

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Satellite Phone

Description: This equipement is essential for mining operation which do not have access to the national telecommunications network: fax, internet, email, data transmission, voice, photos, etc... With this telephone you are in connection with the all network of the world.

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Scraper

Description: The choice for scraper includes: single engine, twin engine push-pull, elevators, and auger arrangements.

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Screen

Description: There are circular, horizontal, inclined, trommel screens. They can be equipped with vibrating mechanisms, spray bars, etc... Their principal utility is the granulometric selection.

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Shaking Table

Description: The shaking table causes a backward and forward movement, partly accelerated, partly decelerated and thus allows the gravimetric separation of solid materials (ore).

Price in USD: 1,500 to 11,000 euros.

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Spare Parts

Description: There are spar parts for: buckets, ripper shanks, crushers, conveyors, etc... Please reffer to manufactures.

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Tunnel Borer

Description: This equipment is essential to the underground mining and construction industries.

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Water Potabilisation

Description: Very useful in mining. It provides the necessary potable water.

Price in USD: 23,000 to 25,000 euros for a capacity of 1 m3/h.

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