How SBM Upgrades Metal Mining Operations?

Facing Challenges with Outdated Equipment and High Maintenance Costs

Are your products and equipment outdated, production capacity below standards, and maintenance costs high?

How can we break the deadlock?

Is there a lack of process design, low production efficiency, and high beneficiation costs?

How can we solve these issues?

In response to the numerous problems and challenges in the metal mining industry, SBM relies on its professional technical transformation and upgrading services to alleviate the concerns of many clients, achieving upgrades and transformations of their production lines. This is not only an innovation of existing problems but also an important measure for transitioning to a more efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-quality production model.

1. Magnetite Crushing and Mineral Processing Project

In the magnetite crushing and mineral processing project, the customer's original production line had process design issues—specifically, the three-stage crushing operation was mismatched, leading to low production efficiency and underwhelming production capacity. Additionally, the original PE jaw crushers and cone crushers frequently malfunctioned, and the equipment manufacturer's after-sales service was inadequate, severely affecting production efficiency and continuous operational stability. Consequently, the customer approached SBM for technical diagnosis and production line upgrades.

After inspecting the production site, SBM's technical engineers customized a targeted system upgrade plan. They replaced the original PE jaw crusher with the C6X series V-cavity jaw crusher, resolving the original issue of "material blockage" in coarse crushing and increasing crushing efficiency by over 20%. The original outdated cone crusher was replaced with the HST single-cylinder hydraulic high-efficiency cone crusher, which improved the medium crushing ratio, reduced the pressure on fine crushing and screening operations, and optimized the crushing ratio distribution throughout the production line, thus enhancing the overall crushing efficiency and capacity.

Thanks to the excellent performance post-transformation, the customer has collaborated with SBM multiple times, building several iron ore crushing production lines.

2. Iron Ore Crushing and Beneficiation Project

The customer's fine crushing workshop initially used outdated spring cone crushers, which faced issues such as insufficient capacity and high circulating load, preventing them from meeting the requirement to process approximately 13 million tons of iron ore annually. As a solution, the customer purchased the HPT300 and HPT500 multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crushers from SBM for the fine crushing workshop transformation project.

After conducting comparative tests of different systems, data revealed that the processing capacity of SBM's HPT crushers reached 1.9 times that of the original crushers, significantly improving the particle size distribution of the crushed product. The transformation effect was remarkably evident. Currently, the production line continues to operate at high intensity, with SBM's HPT multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crushers maintaining low failure and maintenance rates, successfully completing the majority of iron concentrate production tasks.

3. Non-Ferrous Lithium Ore Crushing and Beneficiation Project

The customer processes lithium ore (one of the main components is lithium mica). The traditional solution generally uses a high-pressure roller mill in the ultra-fine crushing stage, and the high-pressure roller mill has a very high -0.5mm content, which is very unfavorable for the re-selection of lithium mica. Therefore, the customer hopes to seek other alternatives to reduce the -0.5mm particle size content in the lithium mica crushing product.

After receiving the customer's request, SBM comprehensively considered the owner's production needs, special material properties and subsequent beneficiation process requirements, and recommended the use of an impact crusher instead of a high-pressure roller mill, and conducted incoming material processing tests on behalf of the customer. The final experimental data showed that the -0.5mm product content produced by impact crushing was about 43% lower than that produced by high-pressure roller mill. The effect of using SBM impact crusher instead of high-pressure roller mill was far beyond expectations. The customer was very satisfied with the technical transformation process and SBM's professional services.

SBM will continue to focus on technological and process innovations, enhance its competitiveness, and contribute to the sustainable development of the metal mining industry.