Magnetic Separation
Why it matters
Designed for precision, built to last
Our magnetic separators deliver dependable, high-selectivity separation, enhancing recovery and product quality across all stages of the flowsheet.
In today’s complex mineral processing landscape, separating magnetic from non-magnetic materials is challenging, especially with fine particles and intricate ores. Traditional methods fall short, but our advanced technology ensures the flexibility and performance to exceed industry standards.
Technology
Advanced magnetic design
Our WHIMS are precisely engineered with an unparalleled density of dedicated magnetic coils per unit area, ensuring sharp mineral separation performance that stands unmatched in the industry.
Complementing this, our proprietary technology in salient plate design, generates an intense magnetic gradient, enabling the precise capture of a wide range of particle sizes. This focused magnetic intensity maximises mineral yield while minimising waste, setting a new standard in magnetic separation.
With continuous refinement and innovation, our WHIMS remain the benchmark for precision, efficiency, and reliability in the field.
Benefits
The obvious choice
Complete Life Cycle support
We provide tailored programs, including Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and refurbishment or rotation options, ensuring your machines are expertly maintained for maximum uptime, reliability, and performance.
Built by the best
Our WHIMS systems are crafted by a team of skilled engineers, whose expertise and precision ensure unmatched reliability, performance, and quality trusted worldwide.
Quality above all
Quality parts only. While technology may improve around our fabrication techniques, we have always maintained a strict materials and fabrication standard.
Built to last
Engineered for endurance and designed to perform in the toughest conditions, our WHIMS technology is built to last, delivering reliable results and long-term value trusted by industries worldwide.
Dedication to the cause
Our dedicated, product-focused technical team ensures WHIMS technology is optimised for peak performance, delivering innovative, tailored solutions with unmatched precision and efficiency.
Global presence
Trusted worldwide, our extensive WHIMS installation base reflects reliability and industry confidence.
Features
More than magnetic
Ensures near-perfect concentricity and durability under demanding conditions.
Featuring a fluted feed roller powered by a geared motor and variable frequency drive, our system offers precise feed control and seamless automated operation. With proven calibration techniques, it ensures accurate feeding across multiple machines.
Our superior salient plate, featuring a unique Mineral Technologies profile, is engineered to enhance magnetic gradient intensity. This innovative design ensures optimal particle capture across a wide size range, setting a new standard in performance and efficiency.
Our advanced control system uses modern protocols for seamless integration into both existing and new plants, with remote support options ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.
MT Readings
by the numbers:
20%
improved recovery through product refinement & R&D activities over the years
100+
successful refurbishments globally
120+ years
of combined product focused experience in our core product team
40+ years
our magnetic separators are built to last and perform for ages!
Magnetics
More tools in the box
The WHIMS (Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separator) is used for separating fine, weakly magnetic minerals like hematite from mineral sands. They are also effective and commonly used in upgrading iron ore fines.
Rare Earth Drum Magnetic Separators (REDs) are widely used in the minerals processing industry for separating highly paramagnetic minerals like ilmenite, garnet, and chromite. They enhance recovery rates and improve product purity by efficiently removing magnetic impurities.
RERs concentrate dry and free flowing granular particles. Typical applications include production of Ilmenite, Chromite and hematite concentrates. (good at fractionizing)
The IRMS is designed for optimal magnetic field strength and adaptability, efficiently separating weakly magnetic particles, including those with (close in magnetic) magnetic properties like monazite and garnet.
The LIMS is designed for processing strongly magnetic minerals such as magnetite. It delivers dependable separation in coarse and fine iron ore applications, providing essential support in the early stages of mineral processing for high recovery rates and consistent product quality.
Nicolas Boonzaier
Product Manager Lyons Unit, Magnets
Focus: Advanced fines processing equipment
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Electrostatic Separation
Why it matters
Enduring
precision
Separating fine, free-flowing materials with varying conductivity—such as ilmenite, rutile, and recyclables—remains a significant challenge in mineral processing.
Where traditional methods fall short, the MT Carrara series excel with advanced roll designs and precision electrodes, ensuring high recovery, minimal waste, and low-maintenance performance.
Built for durability, some of these machines are still performing consistently after more than 30 years in operation. With standard and customisable solutions, Carrara separators maximise plant availability and streamline operations, ensuring seamless integration into production systems.
The Solution
Tireless
performance
The HTR400 is an advanced separator featuring a 400mm diameter roll, designed to boost throughput and separation efficiency. Ideal for processing fine mineral sands and titaniferous ores, it provides high-purity separation with minimal waste, meeting the needs of clients in mineral sands, iron ore, and beyond.
With a 270mm roll, the HTR270 is suitable for high-capacity, precision separation in industrial-scale applications. This separator handles a wide particle size range and is effective for separating materials with close conductivity differences, making it ideal for separating minerals like ilmenite, rutile, and zircon.
The Carrara ESP excels in separating free-flowing, dry minerals based on conductivity. This equipment is particularly useful for separating coarse and fine materials such as mineral sands, chromite, and cassiterite. Its multi-stage design allows for optimal recovery and adaptability across various mineral processing tasks.
Technology
Bringing
dynamic to
static
The MT Carrara series offers flexible, efficient processing of materials, from fine concentrates to industrial minerals, with enhanced performance.
Plate and Screen Plate Electrostatic Separators
- Five Stages of Separation: Internally configured for non-conductor re-treatment.
- Laboratory Scale Separators: Available for testing and development purposes.
High Tension Roll Separator (HTR)
- Multiple Roll Stages: Supplied with either two or three roll stages for non-conductor cleaning, conductor cleaning, or middlings retreatment.
- Model Options: HTR rolls are available in 270mm and 400mm diameter models.
- Laboratory Units: Available for detailed analysis and testing.
Benefits
The obvious choice
Increased throughput
Significantly boost productivity by over 25% with innovative designs, processing more material in less time and enhancing profitability.
Enhanced separation
Our superior separation efficiently processes a wide range of particle sizes, leading to higher purity outputs and reducing the need for additional processing steps.
Improved flexibility
Easily adapt to various operational needs with a flexible configuration and modular design that allows for seamless integration and easy scale-up within existing infrastructure.
Trusted Reliability
Our separators are mechanically reliable, performing efficiently even under the most intense heat and in extremely dusty environments. Some of our machines have been operating for 30+ years and still going!
Enhanced Operator Safety
Dust proof enclosures ensure a safer workplace, these guards still allow operators to do their inspections. Protecting them from potential hazards and complying with safety regulations.
Customised Solutions
Receive tailored solutions and engineering support to meet your specific needs, optimising processes to achieve the best possible outcomes for your operation.
Features
Finely tuned
separation
Our independently adjustable electrode systems allows for precise control over separation processes.
For enhanced operator convenience and safety during online inspections, each separation module is equipped with its own inspection door—streamlining access while reducing heat loss and dust exposure.
Featuring a fluted feed roller powered by a geared motor and variable frequency drive, our system offers precise feed control and seamless automated operation. With proven calibration techniques, it ensures accurate feeding across multiple machines.
Our adjustable splitter design effortlessly accommodates middlings, non-conductors, or conductor retreats without the need for chute changes— fine tuning and enhancing separation.
MT Carrara
by the numbers:
50%
The amount of throughput increased since 19xx
400mm
Up to 400 mm dia options.
40-800
Microns particle size range for effective separation of dry, free-flowing materials.
40+ years
There are separators still in operation and performing consistently for the last 40 years.
Technical
Specifications
HTR400
HTR270
ESP
Maximum throughput will vary with application and testwork is required for confirmation.
Nicolas Boonzaier
Product Manager Lyons Unit, Magnets
Focus: Advanced fines processing equipment
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Mobile Mining Unit (MMU)
Why it Matters
Engineered for Sustainability and Efficiency
The Mobile Mining Unit (MMU) by Mineral Technologies is a groundbreaking mining solution designed to improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and minimise environmental impact. Perfect for the mineral sands and tailings reclamation operations, the MMU combines advanced engineering with unmatched versatility to handle a wide range of mining scenarios.
Key highlights include up to 70% CO2 reduction compared to traditional dry mining operations, single-operator mining for enhanced safety and simplicity, and a compact, track-mounted design for mobility and minimal downtime.
Innovative Design, Superior Performance
Capacity
Handles 600-750 TPH with consistent performance.
Energy Efficient
Powered by an electric trailing cable, significantly reducing diesel consumption.
Remote Operability
Controlled via tablet for easy maneuverability.
Features
Processes roots, stumps, and rocks up to 400mm. Pumping range: Up to 900m with 8m static head.
Flexible Integration
Seamlessly links with FlexSeries modular plants for enhanced efficiency.
Operational Benefits
Achieving 30% cost savings over traditional mining methods, this solution ensures consistent feed rates with reduced downtime and eliminates the need for haul road maintenance.
Applications
Tailored for diverse mining environments
The MMU is ideal for:
- Mineral Sands Mining: Handles friable sands, calcretes, and ferricretes with ease.
- Extraction: Optimised for strandline deposits and high-dune mining.
- Tailings Reclamation: Sustainable recovery of critical minerals from legacy operations.
Stephen Barnett
Product Manager – Mobile Mining Units
Focus: Pit to plant in shallow soft rock mining
I am focused on improving productivity, reducing waste and delivering results for you mineral processing plant.
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Advanced Surge Bin (Lyons Unit)
Why it matters
Unparalleled
control
The use of the Lyons Unit in plants worldwide has resulted in consistent slurry density at the Lyons Unit discharge point despite large fluctuations in feed flowrate and density into the bin.
While these units were initially utilised to stabilise and control the feed to processing plants through maximising pumpable density, we are now also finding application in stabilising tailings discharges and in desliming and upgrading fine heavy mineral feeds.
Consistency
is key
The figure on the right shows the unit providing constant density with the bin slurry level varying from 30% to 70%. The ability to stop the bin full, re-fluidise and get back to density-controlled discharge utilises the entire bin for storage capacity and further reduces the effect of input fluctuations on bin performance.
Technology
Not just a
surge bin
Proudly carrying the name of development team leader John Lyons, the Lyons Unit delivers world’s best practice in feed control technology. Through his Lyons Unit innovation, John Lyons has been a finalist in the 2021 Austmine Champion of Innovation Award and the 2020 Engineers Australia Professional Engineer of the Year Award.
Benefits
Going with
the flow
- Excellent throughput, flow and density control
- Fines decant capability
- Increased capacity stabilises processing plant feed conditions allowing
- The optimisation of downstream separation equipment
- Decreased downtime and higher plant efficiency resulting in increased revenue
Features
Control the
controllable's
- Integrated rise rate control for decanting fines
- Optimised hydrodynamics allowing the feed to expand and move through the bin
- Fluidisation systems to energise the compacted feed prior to discharge
- Optional feed hydrocyclone system to control slimes
Nicolas Boonzaier
Product Manager Lyons Unit, Magnets
Focus: Advanced fines processing equipment
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Spirals & Gravity Separation
Why it Matters
No two ore bodies are the same. Neither are our spirals.
Mineral Technologies understands the complexity of fine mineral separation. That’s why our Spiral Separators are not just products—they’re precision-engineered solutions tailored to your specific ore body. Unlike one-size-fits-all options, we deliver spirals as unique as your challenges, ensuring maximum recovery, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
What makes MT Spirals different?
Unparalleled customization for optimal results
At Mineral Technologies, we offer a range of 20-40 spiral types, each optimized for specific mineral characteristics and separation goals.
Our spirals are designed to maximize recovery rates even with challenging ore variability, reduce tailings waste through sustainable solutions, and enhance efficiency by optimizing the balance between throughput and metallurgical performance.
Key Differentiators
Customized Spiral Designs
Including trough pitch, diameter, and product take-off points.
Proven Success
Case studies like RBM’s tailored spirals outperforming competitors over years of testing.
Industry-Leading Range
Models like MG12, FM1, VHG, and others crafted for diverse needs.
Tailored Solutions
From maximum throughput to optimal performance
Every processing plant aims to achieve maximum throughput, optimal metallurgical performance with a focus on grade and recovery, and cost-effective operations by balancing cost and performance.
Our team collaborates with you to understand these goals, offering custom solutions that align with your specific needs and priorities.
Advanced technology and expertise
Innovation that sets us apart
Our spirals are engineered with precision to tackle the complexities of modern ore bodies. Key features include:
- Re-Pulping Techniques: Enhancing grade and recovery.
- Flexible Configurations: Adaptable designs for various processing stages.
- Proprietary Materials: Built for durability and consistent performance under extreme conditions.
Sustainability in mineral processing
Minimizing Waste, Maximizing Resources
Mineral Technologies is committed to sustainable mineral recovery. By reducing waste in tailings and optimizing resource recovery, our spirals contribute to a greener future while enhancing operational efficiency.
Brenda Van Rhyn
Regional Manager – Australia
Focus: Fine Minerals Recovery
I am a results-driven chemical engineer, passionate about delivering innovative equipment solutions that maximise revenue while minimising costs.
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