For the first time in 40 years iron ore is being mined below the water table in the Pilbara.
Exacerbated by the wet season, TML (Transportable Moisture Limit) is now a crucial concern for major producers.
Delays to loading and also unloading non-compliant ore or customers rejecting product, costs millions of dollars.
The MoistTech CCS-3000 Moisture Analyser “polices” TML in real-time as iron ore fines is conveyed on a belt. Interventions can then be made to select or combine suitable stockpiles to comply with TML requirements.
Extensive and successful repeatability and reliability trials of the MoistTech CCS-3000 with major producers in the Pilbara have set the CCS-3000 apart as the technology of choice to measure free moisture accurately, consistently and in real-time.
Recent fatalities from ocean-going bulk carriers capsizing due to liquefying iron ore fines, have focused the attention of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on its classification. A two-year, $2m research project into the liquefying phenomenon is being completed by the Australian Mineral Industry Research Association to be completed in May 2014 for submission to the IMO.
In the meantime, the MoistTech CCS-3000 Moisture Analyser “polices” TML effectively, efficiently and economically. Money and time are saved by determining the instantaneous percentage moisture content of the ore. Moisture content can be viewed in real-time, alarms can be automatically raised and monitoring can be conducted via smart phone also so appropriate people can intervene.
“The MoistTech CCS-3000 Moisture Analyser employs a non-hazardous technology, emitting rapid energy pulses 7,000 times per second from a specifically designed energy source onto the iron ore fines using forward optical reflection and collimated energy techniques, to succeeded in accurately measuring moisture to “police” TML effectively” Andrew Game, Sales Director, JW Industrial Instruments.