Amdel Mineral Processing Laboratories

Amdel has been servicing the minerals industry since 1960. Today as a rapidly expanding company Amdel prides itself on providing excellence in quality analysis for the Australian and Offshore minerals markets.
Employing over 1200 people located in 23 laboratories throughout Australia and New Zealand, Amdel remains committed to providing exceptional services to all involved in the mining and exploration sector. 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. Now as part of the Bureau Veritas Group, Amdel is supported through a global network of over 850 offices across 140 countries. Bureau Veritas provide our clients with a diverse range of services covering the areas of quality, health, safety, environment and social responsibility, including Certification, Classification, Consulting, Inspection/Audits, Testing Analysis and HSE for all industry sectors including mining. With a wealth of experience and a host of networking, Amdel is your one-stop-shop for all minerals testing requirements. Amdel continues to be the leader in analytical and mineral processing services across a broad range of elements and commodities including, but not limited to: Iron Ore Nickel Uranium Bauxite Copper Gold Silver Phosphate Precious Metals Rare Earth Minerals Base Metals

Assays In House
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.

Pilot Plant
Amdel have a long history of working with clients on all aspects of their Pilot Plants. In the early 1960s Amdel were intimately involved in the very first Pilot Plants operating out of South Australia. Today Amdel have secured a large, established industrial site in Canning Vale that boasts all the necessary base infrastructure for your next modern Pilot Plant. With Amdels nearby 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 placed and prepared to assist with your next Pilot Plant program, large or small. Amdels highly experienced technical teams and continuous investments in innovative technologies ensures Amdel can deliver quality results in agreed turn around times further confirming Amdels strong reputation as a one-stop-shop and industry leader in minerals services.

Amdels capabilities extend throughout the Mining Life Cycle, where we can offer 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.

For more information to see if we can exceed your total requirement please visit our website at www.amdel.com or contact us on: Phone: 1300 MINLAB Email: LabSupport_Mineral@amdel.com Part of the Bureau Veritas Group.

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Metallurgical Services & Capabilities

Large Scale Testing Pilot-scale Crushing Milling (SAG, Ball and Re-grind Mills) Screening Hydrocyclones Flotation Cells Slurry Thickener Agitated Tanks Gravity Separation Davis Tube Recovery (DTR) Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separation (WHIMS) Low Intensity Magnetic Separation (LIMS) Iso Dynamic Magnetic Separator (FRANTZ) Bond Ball and Rod Mill Work Index Bond Abrasion Index Crushing Grinding Bond Impact Crushing Work Index Unconfined Compressive Strength JK Drop Weight Test SMC Test Autogenous Media Competency Test Advanced Media Competency Test Grind Establishment Tools Fine Grinding High Pressure Grinding Rolls Heavy Liquid Separation (HLS) Fine Particle Concentration Spirals Wilfley Table Knelson and Falcon Units Rheology Tests Settling Tests Filtration Tests Transportable Moisture Limit Flotation of Sulphides, Industrial Minerals and Precious Metals Batch or Bench Scale Flotation Tests Locked Cycle Flotation Tests Controlled Potential Sulphidisation (CPS) Jameson Flotation Cell Testing Experience across various commodities, including: Uranium, Gold, Copper (Oxides and Sulfides), Nickel (Laterites and Sulfides). Heap, Vat, Bottle-roll and Agitated Tank Leaching Agglomeration and Percolation testing Atmospheric, Pressure Leaching, Bacterial Leaching capabilities Recovery from solution using Solvent Extraction, Ion Exchange, Precipitation, Reduction, CIL Cyanide Detoxification Solution Purification Batch Reactors Differential Thermal Analysis Roasting Sulphide Ores Roasting Vanadium Ores Automated 17m Drop Tower Lump / Fines Characterisation ISO Tumble and Abrasion Indices ISO Thermal Tests ISO Pyrometallurgical Tests Beneficiation of low grade ores Automated Mineralogy QEMSCAN XRD Optical Microscopy Petrology/Petrography Tailored diagnostic leach tests Comprehensive in-house assay capabilities Gold Deportments Cyclosizing and Laser Sizing

Magnetic Separation

Comminution

Gravity Separation

Slurry characterisation

Flotation

Hydrometallurgy (uranium, base metals, nickel, precious metals)

Pyrometallurgy

Iron Ore

Ore Characterisation

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