SBM Consulting can help you to bring your prospect to a operating plant in most efficient way even to most difficult and challenging deposits.

1. Beneficiation of Base Metals
   • Copper, copper/gold, copper/moly
   • Copper-Zinc, copper/lead, zinc, lead/zinc
   • Precious metals ores - Beneficiation by flotation
   • Nickel, copper/nickel and nickel/PGM
   • Arsenical Gold ores
   • Arsenical copper lead Zinc Gold ores

   A six patented process introduced to operating plants

2. Oxide and Silicate Minerals
   • Oxide Copper
   • Oxide Lead Zinc
   • Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium, Zircon
   • Tin, Tungsten, Chromium, Iron ores
   • Hematite, Rutile

   New technology introduced to Commercial plant treating a) copper oxide b) Tin ore and c) Niobium ore.
   Two patents on Beneficiation of Beryllium ore and Chromium removal from the Ilmenite Concentrate.

3. Industrial Minerals
   • Borite, fluorite celestite
   • Phosphates
   • Feldspars
   • Lithium minerals (Spodumene, Petalite)
   • Wollastonite
   • Potash
   • Silica

   Introduced new process for Beneficiation of Spodumene to operating plants.
   Two patents for a) beneficiation of petalite ore and b) New collector for phosphate flotation from carbonaceous and Silicate gaugue.

4. In Plant Consulting
   The SBM Consulting offers World Wide in plant consulting for Base Metals, Oxidic and Industrial Minerals. The major activities include:
   
   
   • Transfer of new technologies to commercial plants
   • Improvement in operating performance of existing plants
   • New treatment processes for complex ores
   • New reagent developments and commercialization
   • New equipment development and scale-up for plants
   • Plant auditing for identification of possible improvements
   • Plant improvement study and implementation
   • On-site operator training
   • Preparation of operating manuals
   • Flowsheet revision to improve performance
   • Commissioning of plant changes
   • Assist in start-up of new plant
   • Evaluate existing reagent scheme
   • Transfer revised reagent scheme to operating plant
   • Adapt plant operation to ore changes
     
     
5. Rare Earth Minerals
   • Monazite
   • Eudualite
   • Bastnaesite
   • Xenotime
   • Loparite, yttrocerite, orthite etc

   Developed and introduced to operating plant improved reagent scheme for flotation of bastnasite.
   Two patents a)beneficiation of REO and Y2O3 ore.