The lifting equipment will be used for machinery maintenance work at various points across the mine site.
The electric cranes, of single-girder and double-girder overhead configuration, are for the filter building and the plant workshop. Lifting capacity of the single-girder crane is 5.0 tons, while the double-girder crane will lift loads up to 10 tons. Control of both cranes will be by radio remote with manual pendant back-up.
Two hoists were also delivered: a short-headroom hoist for the tailings filter, and a K-Series hoist for the mill feed conveyor. Both will be used for maintenance work.
All Condra products are manufactured to ISO 9000 standard.
The overhead cranes and hoists are currently being installed. Condra was selected to manufacture the machines by consulting engineers Dowding Reynard and Associates.
Mining applications account for more than half of Condra’s orders from customers across sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.
Mine production at Platreef is scheduled to begin this year. Annual yield is expected to exceed one million troy ounces of palladium, platinum, rhodium and gold, plus useful quantities of nickel and copper.
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