Mineral Laboratories
Amdel has been servicing the Australian minerals sector since 1960. Today as a rapidly expanding company Amdel prides itself on providing excellence in quality analysis for the Australian and Offshore minerals markets. Amdel is a proven one-stop-shop for all Mineral Processing and Geoanalytical assaying services. Employing over 1,200 people located in 23 laboratories throughout Australia and New Zealand, Amdel operates the largest collection of laboratories all of which are designed to provide exceptional services for the mining sector. Amdel's mining laboratories are located in all of the major mining states of WA, SA, QLD and NSW.
Throughout the Amdel Group over 700 employees are dedicated to the minerals business, of which more than 25 are qualified metallurgists. In Western Australia alone Amdel occupies over 30,000m² of land and has the single largest bank of robotic cells in the southern hemisphere to process mining samples.
Amdel boasts a range of experienced personnel with broad ranging capability and experience to design, manage and operate all the common building blocks of mineral processing across all the major commodities including:
- Iron Ore
- Nickel
- Bauxite
- Copper
- Zinc
- Uranium
- Gold
- Silver
- Precious metals
- Rare Earth Minerals
- Base Metals
Services Summary
Amdel's capabilities extend throughout all stages of the exploration and mining life cycle.
Amdel's services help to ensure cost effective management of mining projects by providing state of the art facilities, expert staff and a total commitment to a one-stop-shop service. Amdel plays a pivital role in ensuring that your results count.
Amdel's Mineral Laboratories offer a one stop shop, providing the minerals market with both Mineral Processing and Geoanalytical services across a broad range of elements for all commodities, these services include:
- Geoanalytical Services
- Mineral Processing & Metallurgical Laboratory
- Mineral Processing - Pilot Plant
- Mineralogy
- Ore Body Assessment
- Other related services
Amdel also provides mine site environmental services - to help ensure responsible mine development and operation.
Amdel's core values of good science, service led operations and progressive thought leadership ensures Amdel is always able to deliver quality results within the agreed turn around times.
If you would like further information on our service offerings please contact us via:
Phone: 1300 MIN LAB (1300 646 522)
Email: LabSupport_Minerals@amdel.com
Mineral Processing
Amdel boasts a highly qualified and committed team of personnel with broad ranging capabilities and experience to design, manage and operate all the common building blocks of mineral processing across all major commodities, and the skills to tackle your most challenging deposit.
Amdel's capabilities extend throughout the Mining Life Cycle, offering the mining sector the ultimate in one-stop-shop services.
Over 700 employees throughout the Amdel Group are dedicated to the minerals sector, and 25 are qualified metallurgists.
An ongoing program of investment, ensures Amdel's facilities continue to be the most advanced available. Amdel's Mineral Processing Services Include:
Mineral Processing Services:
- Large Scale Testing
- Magnetic Separation
- Comminution
- Gravity Separation
- Slurry Characterisation
- Flotation
- Hydrometallurgy (uranium, base metals, nickel, precious metals)•Pyrometallurgy
- Iron Ore
- Ore Characterisation
Mineralogical Services:
- Petrography & Mineragraphy
- X-Ray Diffraction Identification (XRD)
- Mineral Sand and Alluvial Ore Mineralogy
- Mineral Separation
- Thin and Polished Section Preparation
- Sizing, Sample Preparation and Density Determinations
- Process Mineralogy
- Process Mineralogy - Gold & Silver
- Specialist Mineralogical Services
Amdel are able to perform metallurgical assays in house. Using the latest in Robotic technology, our Perth laboratories have numerous Robotic sample preparation cells, providing an increased capacity through this state of the art technology.
We can also provide outsourced laboratory services to mine sites.
Amdel are also able to ensure responsible mine development and operation by providing mine site environmental services.
For further information about our Mineral Processing Services, or if you would like a lab tour please contact 1300 MIN LAB or email LabSupport_Minerals@amdel.com
Capabilities & Investments
Continuous investment sees an increase in capacity, ensuring Amdel customers receive improvements in turn around, quality and service.
Amdel's most recent investments in Drop Tower, Pilot Plant and QEMSCANÒ technology highlight Amdel's commitment to the mining industry. Latest investments include the following capabilities:
Latest investments include the following capabilities:
Robotics Ultra Trace's Robotic Sample Preparation Cells were the first technology of their kind in the world. Capable of reporting large samples in a single stage mix and grind operation, the system provides a massive boost in capacity, sampling in excess of 1000 samples per day.
Over the last few years Ultra Trace have increased its capacity for Loss of Ignition (LOI), predominantly to meet the demand for Iron Ore analysis.
An initial investment in robotically services Thermo Gravimetric Analysers (TGA) instrumentation, which dramatically increases throughout for this determination, has proved to be so accurate and productive that Ultra Trace has commissioned two more cells, each capable of analysing approximately 1500 samples per day.
Ultra Trace also operate numerous conventional TGA which are the accepted industry standard for LOI testing. These instruments boost the overall capacity for LOI determinations to over 4500 per day, as well as providing a reference technique for calibration of the Robotic Systems.
Pilot Plant Amdel has a long history of working with clients on all aspects of their Pilot Plants. In the early 1960s Amdel was intimately involved in the very first pilot plants operating out of South Australia. Today we have secured a large, established industrial site in Canning Vale that holds all the necessary base infrastructure for the next modern Pilot Plant.
With the nearby Amdel owned Ultra Trace mineral assay laboratories (also located in Canning Vale) housing state of the art robotics and quality processes, the Amdel Mineral Processing Team are well credentialed and prepared for their next large pilot plant.
Drop Tower Amdel's Drop Tower is an integral part of an Iron Ore test work program, used to predict the final lump/fine split and particle size distribution expected from the blasting and processing of an ore.
The Amdel Drop Tower (Perth, Western Australia) provides extensive iron ore testing capabilities across the group. Iron Ore testing also incorporates Amdel's Davis Tube and Bulk Magnetic Separation facilities (Perth, Adelaide and Whyalla), and ISO Pyrometallurgical test capabilities (Whyalla). The Amdel Drop Tower incorporates the following features:
- Increase safety of operation
- Minimise dust and noise
- Maximise data integrity
- The PLC operation minimises the possibility of operator error and ensures that the ore can only be dropped from the target height and requires no manual intervention to affect the ore drop.
Laboratory Expansions Amdel has also increased the capabilities and efficiencies of the business through the major expansion of its South Australian Wingfield facilities.
Wingfield is a prime industrial estate (just 10km N/W of Adelaide CBD) with excellent access to major trucking and shipping corridors for local, national and international customers. Wingfield is situated on 16 hectares of land.
Furthermore Amdel has invested in it's Western Australian Laboratories. In 2007 Amdel acquired Ultra Trace and Independent Metallurgical Laboratories (IML) and in early 2008 Amdel also invested in a new site based in Canning Vale in Western Australia (located in the same suburb as Ultra Trace).
In Western Australia alone Amdel now occupies over 30,000m2 of land and has the single largest bank of robotic cells in the southern hemisphere to process mining samples.
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