Mining & Ore Handling

The performance of the crushing circuit is critical for mill and flotation efficiency. Due to variability in ore size, ore hardness and feed rates, this circuit frequently experiences downtime due to blockages in the crusher, conveyor belt damage and mechanical wear of screens. Additionally, inefficient crushing impacts conveyor belt loading, which rapidly leads to blocked screens and increases the volume of ore that is recirculated in the crushing circuit. 

Emerson can help you optimize your crushing circuit with high-speed deterministic machine control and edge analytics to achieve optimal crushing circuit performance. 

While mines are increasingly shifting to renewable power sources in a bid to increase mining sustainability and reduce energy consumption, many sites still utilize diesel-solar hybrid configurations. 

With little visibility into active plant operations and site-wide energy consumption it is difficult to balance the site power requirements between renewable power and power from the diesel generators. This leads to frequent power surges and unexpected downtime. 

Emerson’s PACSystems edge control and edge computing solutions can also analyze energy consumption data and efficiently start diesel generators when energy from renewable sources is inadequate to meet the site power requirements.

Crushers, vibrating screens, and conveyors are critical fixed mining assets within the mine ore crushing circuit. The performance and the reliability of these assets and the overall ore crushing circuit impacts the entire processing operation. Like other mining assets, conveyors and crushers are highly-susceptible to mechanical breakdown over time given the wear and tear they endure.   

Emerson experts can work with you to outfit your conveyors and crushers with wireless condition monitoring solutions so your maintenance teams can take corrective action as needed and improve the availability of your critical fixed mining assets. 

Effective pit dewatering is crucial to safer, more sustainable surface mining operations.  Unfortunately, pumps are susceptible to mechanical failure without proper maintenance. Despite being critical pumps, these are often manually controlled and lack data collection and remote monitoring which often lead to costly unplanned downtime.

Emerson has extensive experience working with the control performance and health monitoring of your mine pit dewatering pumps. Our experts can guide you in selecting the best solution to start data collection and condition monitoring to improve your critical pump availability.