Aumund Fördertechnik, Rheinberg, Germany, at the end of 2013 delivered eight belt bucket elevators to Base Titanium Ltd in Kenya through the intermediary of Ausenco, the global engineering and project management contractor. Base is responsible for titanium mining at the Kwale Mineral Sands Project. Operations have now successfully commenced at Kwale, an area in Kenya of 56 square kilometres, about 50km south of the port of Mombasa and 10km from the Indian Ocean.

The mined ore contains ilmenite, rutile, and zircon as well as other industrial minerals. The beneficiated materials are being transferred to the process plant by the Aumund bucket elevators which have axis-centre distances of between 26 and 32m and capacities ranging from 6 to 90t/h. With the Kwale Project the challenge was less to achieve high conveying capacities or maximum lifting heights. However, the German machinery builder succeeded in equipping the bucket elevators with belts suitable for high material temperatures up to 140°C. www.aumund.com

 

 

Aumund’s BWG type bucket elevators were specified for the Kwale Project