Gratomic Announces Next Steps for Air Classification Equipment At Its Aukam Processing Plant in Namibia
with over 50 years of experience in the development of many mining and milling engineering projects. He has created equipment design and applications for a very wide variety of minerals. His development of the air classification system was designed to eliminate the screening process. Screening of crushed ore has been around for over 100 years but the process is limited to material size. Having the ore separated by size is only one part of the process. Air classification separates the ore by size, weight and shape allowing for the fully disseminate minerals to be released and separated from the waste material. The inclusion of the full sized air classification systems at the Akum project is a first for the mining industry. The system has two main objectives: first, at the front end of the mill to separate out waste material and remove any free flowing material (ready for market material); and second, at the finishing end of the mill to raise the purity of the graphite to the industry standard for The manufacturing process will take place in parallel with the wet commissioning phase of the crushing and flotation circuits.