Vacuum Solutions

Mining Solutions

Spillage cleaning and high value material recovery

In the mining industry, vacuumation is used to recover precious material from spillages around conveyor belts, trenches, shaft bottoms, sumps and ore passes, and feed it back into production. These units are also used for sweeping and vamping, fines recovery (‘madala’ or old and abandoned sites), clearing of settling dams and confined areas. Vacuumation is integrated with tunnel borers, shaft sinking cutters and continuous miners to efficiently transfer material.

Aluminium-mine specific solutions

Hencon Vacuum Technologies’ centralised, mobile or combination vacuum systems can recover spilt alumina and discharge it back onto the conveyor belts and back into the process.

Gold-mine specific solutions

Gold that is not on the conveyor belt and in the process is lost profit. Gekkon Vacuum Technologies can turn spillages and material not normally considered for collection into profit through the use of its proven vacuum technology. 

 

Spillage cleaning and material recovery

At processing plants, vacuumation is used to recover production losses due to inefficiencies. This can include conveyor belt spillages, losses by road transport and impact due to weather conditions. Vacuum sweeping of plant roads and cemented surfaces recovers valuable material which can be reintroduced into production.

Transferring material using vacuumation is spillage-free in contrast to other commonly used methods.

Products:

• Stationary
• Mobile
• Truck mounted
• Centralised vacuum system
• Gravity discharge collectors
• Continuous discharge collectors • High efficient cyclones
• Reverse-pulse filter/collector

Processing Plant Solutions

Custom Build Solutions

Gekkon Vacuum Technologies offer custom designed vacuum solutions to address our clients’ specific challenges, whether it involves the transfer of material in processing plants, moisture removal during material transfer, conveyor belt vacuum nozzle on return idler, or specialised vacuum and jetting systems for sewage maintenance. All solutions are designed to ensure high up-times at the lowest operational costs.

Products:

Belt vacuum nozzle
Transfer system
Sewage and jetting
Road sweeping trucks
Custom solutions

Diverse Product Range

Apart from industrial and mining vacuum systems, Gekkon Vacuum Technologies also offers diverse products such as vacuum drying systems for the dewatering of gravel during diamond recovery, and other material handling systems. Material spillages, especially around and under conveyors, are an ongoing issue for many mines and processing plants around the world. Since output is always the priority, conveyor systems are run at the highest possible speeds: Spillages normally occur at conveyor changeovers. Cleaning under conveyors is a prime example of where the solutions Gekkon Vacuum Technologies offers can make an impact. We have products that allow zero dust, manual or even fully remote controlled removal of spillages. These products can be used throughout the mining and processing industries. Even material that sticks to the belt once it goes back on the return side, can fall off along the way, forming heaps that can eventually be high enough to start causing damage to both the rollers and the belt itself. This can be addressed with a belt-scraping vacuum in order for the material to be returned to production. Faults in the conveying system and feeding chutes can also cause sudden, unforeseen spillages. Older plants suffer even more from this problem due to their age and often due to lack of proper maintenance. The spillages themselves prevent proper maintenance by making access to the parts that need repair or upkeep, difficult or even impossible. Besides the effect on maintenance, spillage can also have an impact on the environment and may become a health and safety issue.

Products

MOLLY 4.0

The Molly 4.0 is the newest addition to the Hencon VT fleet of vacuum trucks and the first Software Monitored Advanced Recovery Truck or SMART. This truck is used as a live platform to test different technologies identified in

HVT 4.0

HVT4.0 is our two-way approach to ensuring future sustainability and competitiveness in the market. This two-way approach does not just focus on engineering value, through the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, but also customer value

AFRIVEYOR

The specialist in spillage cleaning and high-value material recovery Thanks to custom designed solutions that take each client’s specific needs and variables into account, Afriveyor can minimise and eliminate the challenges associated with material spillages

HVT-ESV_RAIL

Rail Vacuum Cleaning spillages under conveyors and in other hard-to-access areas is a major challenge for mine and process plant cleaning crews, especially when underground. A rail mounted vacuum unit like the HVT-ESV_RAIL allows the

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