Bateman Engineering's ability to provide cost effective facilities for copper processing is based strongly on its unique in-house source of world-class, processing technologies including leading-edge solvent extraction and electrowinning techniques and modular plants. Bateman also has an international network of suppliers to source the best equipment for the job.
Bateman has plant references in copper processing, smelting and refining applications dating back more than two decades. Recent major projects include Sepon Copper in Laos, Lumwana Copper in Zambia and study work for Udokan Copper Project in Russia.
Bateman provides the full range of capabilities to
- Convert run-of-mine (ROM) ore into saleable products.
- Integrate engineering and process know-how in the development and optimisation of plant designs.
- Deliver processing facilities that meet global environmental standards.
Bateman’s state-of-the-art expertise and technologies cover
- Ore handling and preparation - materials handling, comminution and pre-concentration.
- Flotation and dewatering.
- Copper extraction: pyrometallurgy – roasting, smelting, converting, furnace design and peripherals.
- Copper extraction: hydrometallurgy – leaching and residue and impurity removal.
- Copper solvent extraction, ion exchange and electrowinning.
- Acid plants.
- By-product recovery.
- Process modelling - steady-state simulation, dynamic simulation, finite element analysis and engineering design and drafting.
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