Austral – Tahmoor Mine
- Owner: Austral Coal
- Project: Coal Handling System Upgrade
- Location: Tahmoor Mine, New South Wales, Australia
- Scope: Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Project Background
Engineering, procurement and construction of an upgrade to the existing jig CPP of 550 TPH capacity to 750 TPH.
The existing jig was removed and replaced by upgrading the primary and secondary heavy medium circuits to include primary and secondary heavy media cyclones, 50mm x0.5mm, and installing a flotation tank cell, 0.5mm x 0mm, into the fines circuit.
The tank cell acts as a rougher to reduce the load on the existing conventional flotation circuit. filtration capacity was increased by the addition of a 3rd drum filter.
The crushing and sizing circuit was modified by the installation of a primary and secondary sizer and new coal screen.
The project also included extensive modification to the feed conveyor to both align with the new ROM sizing module and increase capacity.