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General Information
- Pyrometallurgical processes and equipment
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329 kB)
- Pyrometallurgy Division Introduction
- Pyrometallurgy Division People and Structure
- High Temperature Laboratory
(68 kB)
Pilot Plants
- Pyrometallurgy Division Pilot Plants
- 20 ton / day Pilot Plant (5.6 MVA DC-arc)
- 5 ton / day Pilot Plant (3.2 MVA DC-arc)
- 1 ton / day Pilot Plant (200 kVA DC-arc)
- 1 ton / day Pilot Plant (300 kVA AC-arc)
- TBRC Pilot Plant
Computing and Software
- Advanced Computing - Introduction
- Advanced Computing - Facilities
- Advanced Computing - Research
- Pyrosim software description
- Pyrosim software description (full paper)
- Pyrosim users around the world
- Pyrosim User's Manual
- Thermo software description
Conferences
Technical Papers
2010- Mould flux residues aid descaling of reheated austenitic stainless steel
(462 kB)
- JN Mukadi and PC Pistorius
- JN Mukadi and PC Pistorius
- Recovery of base metals and PGMs in a DC alloy-smelting furnace
(168 kB)
- RT Jones, IJ Geldenhuys, and QG Reynolds
- Production of Al-Ti master alloys from TiO2 in a DC arc furnace (
1220 kB)
- M Abdellatif
- Towards commercialisation of Mintek's ConRoast process for platinum smelting (
1068 kB)
(As published (2374 kB))
- RT Jones
- Four years of DC arc smelting of PGM-containing oxide feed materials at Mintek (
467 kB)
(As published (2524 kB))
- IJ Geldenhuys and RT Jones
- Composite Furnace Modules - Application in DC furnaces for FeNi alloy production (
1697 kB)
- F Marx, M Shapiro, N Fowler, NB Gray, and IJ Geldenhuys
- RT Jones, IJ Geldenhuys, and QG Reynolds
- Braemore Platinum Smelters: Commercial exploitation of Mintek's ConRoast technology
(646 kB)
- RE Phillips, P Chennells, and RT Jones
- Development of roasting parameters for the ConRoast process with low-sulfur feedstock (
500 kB)
- E Eccleston and J White
- The roasting of PGM-ore concentrates in a circulating fluidized bed (
1486 kB)
- J Hammerschmidt
- Water atomisation of PGM-containing intermediate alloys (
1179 kB)
- JJ Dunkley, D Norval, RT Jones, and P Chennells
- Pyrometallurgical iron removal from a PGM-containing alloy (
823 kB)
- SD McCullough, IJ Geldenhuys, and RT Jones
- Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process: Status and Prospective (
402 kB)
- M Abdellatif and MJ Freeman
- RE Phillips, P Chennells, and RT Jones
- JOM World Nonferrous Smelter Survey Part IV: Nickel: Sulfide
(855 kB)
- AEM Warner, CM Diaz, AD Dalvi, PJ Mackey, AV Tarasov, and RT Jones
- An analysis of pressure fluctuations in a CFB of heavy minerals (
334 kB)
- A Luckos, QG Reynolds, and P den Hoed
- South Africa's Ferro Alloys Industry - present status and future outlook (
426 kB)
- J Basson, TR Curr, and WA Gericke
- A twin-cathode DC arc smelting test at Mintek to demonstrate the feasibility of smelting FeNi from calcine prepared from siliceous laterite ores from Kazakhstan for Oriel Resources plc (
2051 kB)
- IJ Reinecke and H Lagendijk
- Current and potential applications of fluid-bed technology in the ferroalloy industry (
556 kB)
- A Luckos, GM Denton, and P den Hoed
- An experimental investigation of foaming in acidic, high FexO slags (
352 kB)
- SAC Stadler, JJ Eksteen, and C Aldrich
- AEM Warner, CM Diaz, AD Dalvi, PJ Mackey, AV Tarasov, and RT Jones
- Pyrometallurgy at Mintek
(3313 kB)
- RT Jones and TR Curr
- Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (MTMP): Theoretical and operational aspects (
272 kB)
- M Abdellatif
- Refining testwork on crude Magnesium produced in the Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (
300 kB)
- M Abdellatif
- Metallurgy from above - a Google Earth perspective (
2538 kB)
- QG Reynolds
- Independence Platinum Limited (IPt) - formation and objectives (
218 kB)
- RE Phillips, RT Jones, and LA Cramer
- Pilot plant demonstration of the Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (
370 kB)
- M Abdellatif
- RT Jones and TR Curr
- Calculation of FeO-TiO2-Ti2O3 liquidus isotherms pertaining to high titania slags
(1036 kB)
- DJ Fourie, JJ Eksteen, and JH Zietsman
- EAF Stainless Steel Dust Processing (
158 kB)
- GM Denton, NA BArcza, PD Scott, and T Fulton
- A study into the hydrodynamic behaviour of heavy minerals in a circulating fluidized bed (
425 kB)
- A Luckos and P den Hoed
- Technological breakthrough of the Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (
138 kB)
- AFS Schoukens, MA Abdel-latif, and MJ Freeman
- An overview of Southern African PGM smelting (
249 kB)
- RT Jones
- Twin-electrode DC smelting furnaces - Theory and photographic testwork (
1205 kB)
- QG Reynolds and RT Jones
- Atmospheric thermal magnesium extraction (
192 kB)
- MA Abdel-latif
- DJ Fourie, JJ Eksteen, and JH Zietsman
- PGM Smelter Survey
(93 kB)
- RT Jones
- DC arc smelting of difficult PGM-containing feed materials (
25 kB)
- RT Jones and IJ Kotze
- A new process for the thermal refining of zinc (
668 kB)
- AD McKenzie
- Semi-empirical modelling of the electrical behaviour of DC-arc smelting furnaces (
97 kB)
- QG Reynolds and RT Jones
- Fluidization and flow regimes of titaniferous solids (
200 kB)
- A Luckos and P den Hoed
- Direct smelting of stainless steel plant dust (
206 kB)
- TJ Goff and GM Denton
- An improved DC-arc process for chromite smelting (
478 kB)
- GM Denton, JPW Bennie, and A de Jong
- Economic and environmentally beneficial treatment of slags in DC arc furnaces (
575 kB)
- RT Jones
- RT Jones
- DC arc photography and modelling
(120 kB)
- RT Jones, QG Reynolds, and MJ Alport
- Thermal radiation modelling of DC smelting furnace freeboards (
230 kB)
- QG Reynolds
- Pilot plant production of ferronickel from nickel oxide ores and dusts in a DC arc furnace (
691 kB)
- IJ Kotze
- Fundamentals of zinc recovery from metallurgical wastes in the Enviroplas process (
232 kB)
- MA Abdel-latif
- Recovery of vanadium and nickel from petroleum flyash (
205 kB)
- MA Abdel-latif
- ConRoast: DC arc smelting of dead-roasted sulphide concentrates (
1130 kB)
- RT Jones
- RT Jones, QG Reynolds, and MJ Alport
- ConRoast for the platinum industry
- RT Jones
- Recovery of cobalt from slag in a DC arc furnace at Chambishi, Zambia (
537 kB)
- RT Jones, GM Denton, QG Reynolds, JAL Parker, and GJJ van Tonder
- The processing of jigged ferromanganese fines in a DC arc furnace (
737 kB)
- K Bisaka, GM Denton, and JAL Parker
- Preliminary Investigation into the Roasting of Ilmenite in a CFB Reactor
- A Luckos
- RT Jones
- Platinum smelting in South Africa
(1024 kB)
- RT Jones
- An anatomy of furnace refractory erosion: Evidence from a pilot-scale facility (
295 kB)
- P den Hoed
- RT Jones
- Computer modeling and analysis of processes for the production and use of DRI
(316 kB)
- AE Morris, AC Deneys, and RT Jones
- AE Morris, AC Deneys, and RT Jones
- Using a direct-current arc furnace to recover cobalt from slags
(683 kB)
- RT Jones and AC Deneys
- Recovery of cobalt, nickel and copper from slags using DC-arc furnace technology (
423 kB)
- RT Jones
- Emerging pyrometallurgical processes for zinc and lead recovery from zinc-bearing waste materials (
1127 kB)
- G Assis
- The selective carbothermic reduction of chromite (
752 kB)
- TR Curr, LR Nelson, and LB McRae
- RT Jones and AC Deneys
- Production of ferronickel from
nickel laterites in a DC arc furnace
- H Lagendijk and RT Jones
- Influence of DC-arc furnace geometry on a 'cobalt from slag' process (
823 kB)
- RT Jones, TG la Grange, and G Assis
- Recovery of cobalt from a Viburnum trend lead blast furnace slag (
722 kB)
- AC Deneys, DGC Robertson, RT Jones, and AW Worcester
- An evaluation of some possible integrated flowsheets for the pyrometallurgical recovery of cobalt using DC-arc furnace technology (
547 kB)
- TG la Grange, RT Jones, and GM Denton
- The high current DC arc in extractive metallurgy (
579 kB)
- TR Curr
- Thermodynamics and its applications - an overview (
294 kB)
- RT Jones
- H Lagendijk and RT Jones
- Cobalt recovery from slag
- RT Jones, DA Hayman, and GM Denton
- The Enviroplas process for the recovery of zinc, chromium and nickel from steel-plant dust (
865 kB)
- AFS Schoukens, MA Abdel-latif, MJ Freeman, and NA Barcza
- A review of new ferrochromium smelting technologies (
290 kB)
- TR Curr
- RT Jones, DA Hayman, and GM Denton
- Pilot-plant production of Prime Western grade zinc from lead blast-furnace slags using the Enviroplas process
- AFS Schoukens, GM Denton, and RT Jones
- Enviroplas technology for the recovery of lead and zinc from lead blast furnace slags (
991 kB)
- NA Barcza, DGC Robertson, AFS Schoukens, F Shaw, GM Denton, AW Worcester, and DJ Bailey
- Formation of Titanium carbide from ilmenite concentrates in a thermal plasma reactor (
787 kB)
- PR Taylor, M Manrique, SA Pirzada, and MA Abdel-latif
- AFS Schoukens, GM Denton, and RT Jones
- Solubility of nitrogen in experimental low-nickel austenitic stainless steels
(519 kB)
- L Iorio, MB Cortie, and RT Jones
- Reduction of taconite concentrates in a cyclone reactor (
1324 kB)
- PR Taylor, MA Abdel-latif, and RW Bartlett
- L Iorio, MB Cortie, and RT Jones
- Thermal Magnesium
- AFS Schoukens
- Breakthrough for Enviroplas Process
- AFS Schoukens
- The treatment of metallurgical wastes using the Enviroplas process (
937 kB)
- NA Barcza, CJ Hutton, MJ Freeman, and F Shaw
- The Enviroplas process for the treatment of steel-plant dusts (
771 kB)
- AFS Schoukens, F Shaw, and EC Chemaly
- Practical desktop supercomputing (
620 kB)
- RT Jones
- Plasma Developments in Africa
- RT Jones, NA Barcza, and TR Curr
- Developments in plasma furnace technology (
1018 kB)
- RT Jones, TR Curr, and NA Barcza
- AFS Schoukens
- Effect of reductant injection on chromite smelting
(993 kB)
- GJ Dreyer and RH Eric
- The solid-state reduction of chromite (
777 kB)
- RJ Dippenaar and MJ Niayesh
- Solid-state fluxed reduction of LG-6 chromite from the Bushveld Complex (
527 kB)
- RH Eric and P Weber
- GJ Dreyer and RH Eric
- The application of plasma-arc technology for the production of calcium carbide
(357 kB)
- LJ Erasmus
- Theoretical study of electrically based thermal processes for the treatment of steel-plant dusts
- LR Nelson
- Plasma-arc treatment of steel-plant dust and zinc-containing slag - theoretical and practical considerations (
550 kB)
- AFS Schoukens, LR Nelson, and NA Barcza
- LJ Erasmus
- Metallurgy of open-bath plasma processes
(546 kB)
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, and RT Jones
- Technology for treatment of steel-plant dusts (
1198 kB)
- NA Barcza and LR Nelson
- The pyrometallurgical recovery of gold from leached calcine residues (
955 kB)
- ASE Kleyenstuber and LB McRae
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, and RT Jones
- A plasma-arc process for the production of magnesium
(746 kB)
- AFS Schoukens
- Description of non-ideal slag and metal systems by the intermediate-compound method (
821 kB)
- RT Jones and BD Botes
- Pre-reduction of fluxed chromite-ore pellets under oxidizing conditions (
1135 kB)
- NA Barcza and RC Nunnington
- Kinetics and mechanism of the chlorination of ferrochromium (
1650 kB)
- LR Nelson and RH Eric
- Fluidized-bed reduction of fine iron ore by the in situ combustion of coal (
1100 kB)
- JC van den Berg and RJ Dippenaar
- Solid-state reduction of composite chromite pellets in an externally heated moving-bed shaft furnace (
610 kB)
- MJ Niayesh and RJ Dippenaar
- Mintek's new 1MW plasma furnace (
271 kB)
- DA Hayman
- Mintek's role in the development of plasma-arc technology based on a graphite cathode (
560 kB)
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, GM Denton, and DA Hayman
- AFS Schoukens
- Energy considerations for the melting of DRI as a function of the degree of pre-reduction
(454 kB)
- RT Jones, NA Barcza, and RJ Dippenaar
- A quantitative assessment of mixed ionic and electronic conduction in some commercially available magnesia-stabilized zirconia electrolytes (
920 kB)
- MJUT van Wijngaarden, JMA Geldenhuis, and RJ Dippenaar
- The dissolution of a Transvaal chromite in liquid silicate slags under neutral conditions between 1545 and 1660oC (
589 kB)
- TR Curr, A Wedepohl, and RH Eric
- RT Jones, NA Barcza, and RJ Dippenaar
- The effect of feed pretreatment on the efficiency of a plasma-arc furnace
(353 kB)
- WFAT Meihack, TR Curr, NA Barcza, and RT Jones
- Computer simulation of pyrometallurgical processes (
807 kB)
- RT Jones
- WFAT Meihack, TR Curr, NA Barcza, and RT Jones
- The potential role of fluidized beds in the metallurgical industry
(645 kB)
- WFAT Meihack
- Factors affecting the reduction rate of chromite (
486 kB)
- NF Dawson and RI Edwards
- An assessment of smelting reduction processes in the production of Fe-Cr-C alloys (
397 kB)
- MJ Niayesh and GW Fletcher
- Technology for the production of new grades and types of ferro-alloys using thermal plasma (
698 kB)
- D Slatter, NA Barcza, TR Curr, KU Maske, and LB McRae
- Process routes for beneficiation of noble metals from Merensky and UG-2 ores (
953 kB)
- KS Liddell, LB McRae, and RC Dunne
- The control and operation of a pilot-plant DC plasma furnace (
487 kB)
- KC Nicol, MS Rennie, and AB Stewart
- The production of ferrotitanium in a d.c. transferred-arc plasma furnace (
704 kB)
- AD Brent, LB McRae, and H Lagendijk
- WFAT Meihack
- The application of thermal plasma technology to large-scale pyrometallurgical processes
(1115 kB)
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, and KU Maske
- The attainment of high power densities in transferred-arc plasma smelting processes (
343 kB)
- TR Curr, KU Maske, and KC Nicol
- Development in refractories for plasma technology (
1520 kB)
- RC Nunnington, KU Maske, AFS Schoukens, TR Curr, and NA Barcza
- The 3,2MVA plasma facility at Mintek (
859 kB)
- TR Curr, KC Nicol, JF Mooney, AB Stewart, and NA Barcza
- The production of manganese ferro-alloys in transferred-arc plasma systems (
1855 kB)
- AFS Schoukens and TR Curr
- The aluminothermic reduction of the oxide of reactive metals (
599 kB)
- NA Barcza, GW Dreibrodt, and JA Theron
- Metallurgical reaction philosophies of transferred-arc plasma furnaces (
514 kB)
- KU Maske and KJ Reid
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, and KU Maske
- The dissipation of energy in D.C. transferred-arc plasma systems and the consequences for the production of ferro-alloys
(2688 kB)
- AB Stewart
- The application of transferred-arc plasma to the melting of metal fines (
1046 kB)
- LB McRae, NA Barcza, and TR Curr
- AB Stewart
- The design and operation of transferred-arc plasma systems for pyrometallurgical applications
(376 kB)
- TR Curr, NA Barcza, KU Maske, and JF Mooney
- Recent developments in pyrometallurgical plasma technology (
472 kB)
- KU Maske and NA Barcza
- The 'dig-out' of a ferrochromium furnace (
1611 kB)
- A Wedepohl and NA Barcza
- TR Curr, NA Barcza, KU Maske, and JF Mooney
- The growth of ferro-alloy production in South Africa
(886 kB)
- RA Featherstone and NA Barcza
- Recent developments in the ferro-alloy field in South Africa (
898 kB)
- NA Barcza, RA Featherstone, and CWP Finn
- RA Featherstone and NA Barcza
- Optimum slag-alloy relationships for the production of medium- to low-carbon ferromanganese
(741 kB)
- DP O'Shaughnessy and NA Barcza
- The production of ferrochromium in a transferred-arc plasma furnace (
2055 kB)
- NA Barcza, TR Curr, WD Winship, and CP Heanley
- DP O'Shaughnessy and NA Barcza
- Slag-metal equilibrium in the production of low-carbon ferromanganese
(1082 kB)
- NA Barcza
- The 'dig-out' of a 75 MVA high-carbon ferromanganese electric smelting furnace (
1287 kB)
- NA Barcza, A Koursaris, JB See, and WA Gericke
- NA Barcza
- Plasma technology and its application to extractive metallurgy
(2396 kB)
- SML Hamblyn
- SML Hamblyn
- Phase equilibria in the Cr-Fe-Si-C system in the composition range representative of high-carbon ferrochromium alloys produced in South Africa
(511 kB)
- JCM Wethmar, DD Howat, and PR Jochens
- JCM Wethmar, DD Howat, and PR Jochens
- Physico-chemical properties of titaniferous slags
(997 kB)
- LB McRae, E Pothas, PR Jochens, and DD Howat
- LB McRae, E Pothas, PR Jochens, and DD Howat
- A study of a Direct Method of Stainless Steel Production
(1945 kB)
- RP Forsyth
- RP Forsyth
Patents (available as PDF files, 120 kb to 1600 kB)
- 2004 - Method of and apparatus for refining zinc (2004/1249)
- AD McKenzie, GM Denton, H Lagendijk, MD Shapiro, DP Mitchell
- 2002 - Agglomeration of ferro-alloy fines (2002/4091)
- JP Beukes, J Nell, and SD McCullough
- 2001 - Treatment of metal sulphide concentrates (2001/6720 and EP1157139)
- RT Jones, NA Barcza, G Kaiura, G O'Connell, and T Hannaford
- 1998 - The processing of zinc bearing materials (95/4963 and ZA965134)
- NA Barcza, AFS Schoukens, and GM Denton
- 1996 - Ferrochromium production (96/0877)
- HL Smith, GM Denton, and NA Barcza
- 1995 - The recovery of metal values from slags (95/4458)
- DA Hayman and GM Denton
- 1994 - The production of ferronickel from nickel containing laterite (94/6071)
- H Lagendijk, AFS Schoukens, P Smith, and PWE Blom
- 1993 - The production of stainless steel (93/5789)
- MJ Niayesh
- 1993 - The recovery of titanium from titanomagnetite
- MD Boyd, AFS Schoukens, and GM Denton
- 1992 - The production of high titania slag from ilmenite (93/5072)
- GM Denton and AFS Schoukens
- 1991 - The recovery of platinum-group metals and gold from sources containing same (91/7598)
- LB McRae and EB Pretorius
- 1991 - The production of calcium carbide (91/9350)
- LJ Erasmus and AFS Schoukens
- 1988 - The production of mattes containing PGMs and gold (88/6670)
- LB McRae and JPR de Villiers
- 1988 - The thermal reduction of agglomerated metallurgical feed materials with oxide coatings (88/2581)
- NA Barcza, RA Featherstone, and RC Nunnington
- 1988 - The thermal reduction of agglomerated feed materials with metallic coatings (88/1098)
- NA Barcza and RC Nunnington
- 1987 - Process for the enhanced reduction of chromite ores
- NF Dawson and RI Edwards
- 1986 - The thermal production of magnesium (86/7102)
- AFS Schoukens and NA Barcza
- 1986 - Electrically heated fluidized bed reactor and processes (86/7101)
- NA Barcza, MJ Dry, and WFAT Meihack
- 1984 - The aluminothermic reduction of the oxide of reactive metals (84/0245)
- NA Barcza, GW Dreibrodt, and JA Theron
- 1984 - Materials feeder assembly (84/0994)
- T Monaci
- 1984 - Process for the production of silicomanganese and ferromanganese-silicon alloys (84/9318)
- NA Barcza and AFS Schoukens
- 1983 - The refining of silicon (83/6819)
- LB McRae
- 1983 - Electrode assemblies for thermal plasma generating devices (83/1375)
- TR Curr and JF Mooney
- 1983 - The protection of water cooled plasma generating devices (83/1374)
- NA Barcza and JF Mooney
- 1983 - The treatment of ferromanganese (83/7183)
- TR Curr and IE Schmidt
- 1982 - The production of mattes containing platinum group metals and gold (82/2966)
- LB McRae, TR Curr, and JP Loo
- 1982 - The production and treatment of ferrochromium (82/7404)
- TR Curr and NA Barcza
- 1982 - The refining of ferrochromium metal (82/7403)
- TR Curr and NA Barcza
- 1977 - The control of electrical arc furnaces (77/3923)
- IJ Barker and AB Stewart
- 1976 - Improvements relating to briquettes (76/5287)
- LB McRae
- 1975 - A process for the treatment of mixtures of platinum group metals and gold (75/0593)
- RI Edwards, JP Loo, and DI Ossin
- 1975 - Stainless steel production (75/7930)
- DI Ossin
- 1972 - Improvements in or relating to the production of ferrochromium alloys (72/6389)
- PR Jochens
- AD McKenzie, GM Denton, H Lagendijk, MD Shapiro, DP Mitchell