Strategic Partnerships
Over the years Bevex has established joint ventures and/or contractual relationships with specialist entities
VBKom - based in South Agrica - An established multidisciplinary engineering and project management consultancy to Africa’s mining and capital-intensive industries, with extensive experience across the continent. While Bevex has broad and comprehensive experience in a wide range of fields, in our quest for optimal service to clients and stakeholders we often submit projects to VBKOM for peer-review, and on larger complex projects we have contracted the full depth of their expertise across all fields for the duration of the project. VBKOM was contracted by BEVEX...
SBS-Alweld - based in South Africa. A major fabrication works with 18000 sq. meters under cranes, the 4th largest workshop in Africa, with capacity for all types of heavy industry steelwork and fabrication, including the full pre-erection and dry-commisioning of Bevex's plants and components prior to despatch.
Sheasby International - based in South Africa. International QA and QC providers working with international mining Majors, e.g. Mittal steel in India, for quality assurance and control of steel production and manufacturing standards.
Aspen Metallurgical Solutions - based in South Africa. The ASPEN designed Melt Reductant Furnaces offer a combination of hardware, software and process methodology resulting in a highly efficient metal recovery for a wide range of base metals, ferrous and non-ferrous materials such as Copper, Cobalt, Tin, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Vanadium Chrome, Manganese, etc.. These Apen Furnaces are of low capital, mobile, and power efficient and the preferred smelting component included in the Bevex processing methology.
Solo Resources - based in South Africa, boasts of over 30 years of experience in the sales, design, installation and commissioning of metallurgical processing equipment into a variety of applications in the mining and metals industry. As an agent for selected international companies, Bevex has support and access to the latest and most advanced specialist equipment around the globe.
Energy Densification Systems - based in South Africa. EDS’s target market is the milling and densification of various ores (gold, platinum, chrome, etc) coal, coal waste, silica fume, silica sand, talc, quartzite, clinker, graphite, biomass and various mineral and ore waste materials, to name but a selection. (See below)
EDS Mill Testwork
Bevex has collaborated extensively with EDS the past 8 years, conducting multiple tests and sampling of a range of ores with this innovative technology.
EDS Multi-Shaft Mill
vs
Conventional Ball Mill
EDS 10 Shaft Mill vs Conventional Mill
@ 35–50 tph (tons per hour)
EDS Mill | Ball Mill | |
Unit cost (USD) |
400 000 | *1 350 000 |
Civils (USD) |
15 000 | *1 200 000 |
Installed cost (USD) |
600 000 | *2 500 000 |
Installed power |
220 Kw | *1 100 Kw |
Power supply |
Diesel Genset | Grid Power |
Feed top size |
40 mm | 8 mm |
Product size |
80-150 µm | 45 µm |
Throughput rate |
60–100 tph | |
Grinding media |
None required | ~ 40 tons |
Delivery lead time |
3 months | 8 - 12 months |
Installation time |
< 1 month | 3 - 4 months |
Maintenance – liner replacement |
< 1 shift | 1 - 2 weeks |
All up weight |
4 tons |
*42 tons (excl. motor) |
* based on June 2024 FOB quote for 3.6m diam x 5.4m long mill
EDS Mill Performance – Before & After
DRY OXIDE material before and after single pass through EDS Mill |
Transitional Zone material before and after single pass through EDS Mill |
Siliceous Au sulphide mineralization @ –40mm top size Product before and after a single pass |