Equipment and Technology
The Group proudly uses some of the most advanced equipment and technology to ensure that it provides the Group with the necessary technological and analytical support.
The drying of test samples is conducted in specially designed enclosed chambers force fed with heated air, developed by the Russian scientific and industrial center Azimuth. Crushing, reduction, abrasion testing are performed on the automated crushing lines manufactured by Hammersley as well as New Zealand Rocklabs, and Germany’s Frich. Both dry and wet leaching is done on ores with high gold content using a Zhuravlev separator, concentration tables SKO -0,5, and an Analizette-3 vibrating screen. Atomic-absorption and ISP analysis to define the content of noble and nonferrous metals is carried out on spectrometers such as Analyst-400, Analyst-800 manufactured by Perkin Elmer.
A full suite of auxiliary equipment makes it possible to determine even the ultra-low impurity content of samples: As, Se, So, Bi, Hg and others (arsenic, selenium, antimony, bismuth, mercury). A LECO analyzer carries out tests on carbon and sulfur of any sulfur and carbon-containing materials. The Satmagan analyzer makes it possible with very high accuracy and productivity to determine iron or magnetite in the samples for processing. Buehler equipment is used for conducting mineralogical studies, and the preparation of models. Universal microscopes are LEICA brand, and digital microscopy cameras with Siam’s software. X-ray fluoroscopy is used to determine the basic ore components of iron ores, and a spectrometer by ARL ADVANT is used. Test concentration is carried out on “Azimuth” equipment, the determination of noble metals with the gravimetric end on the microbalances MX-5 by Mettler. Spectral analysis is carried out on spectrographs STE, optical spectrometers used are ICP at 5300 DV by Perkin Elmer, and which make it possible to carry out multi-element analysis after the decomposition of tests in aqua regia, in a mixture of acids, or by fusion with sodium peroxide.
