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Jack modified his first plant at Lee Quarry Bacup in 1970 and has been designing and modifying them ever since.
As with all things, plant design is usually a compromise between cost and efficiency. Unless money is no problem, most plants start out modestly and are added to as the requirement changes or as the operation has more cash.
Other factors such as, Health and Safety and care of the environment can, quite rightly take precedence over pure plant effectiveness.
Jack has the experience to be considered an expert in auditing, modernising and modifying process plants. |
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The plant on the left is located at Changalume limestone quarry in Malawi.
It was designed by Jack to replace a very obsolete and dangerous existing plant. The new plant had a capacity of 150 tonnes per hour. The plant is Metso. Part of the plant was later destroyed by a rockfall caused by poor blasting techniques. |
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Jack re-designed and rehabilitated this French/Austrian coal washing plant in Maamba Zambia.
Its capacity was increased to more than 12,000 tonnes of product per day. |
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Jack has designed new plants and re-designed existing plants in;
Antigua Congo Falklands Grenada Jamaica Liberia Malawi Montserrat Nigeria Oman Pakistan St Kitts St Lucia South Africa Tanzania Tobago Trinidad UAE UK |
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The plant shown to the sides was designed and managed by Jack before being handed over to the Rugby Group.
It proved capable of consistently producing 450 tonnes per hour. |
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After the war, Goodwin Barsby provided a massive amount of crushing equipment to the Falkland island. Most of it was sited at the Processing area, where several plants were in operation. Jack managed this site and it was a typical example of the suppliers getting it wrong, again was obliged to extensively change the designs before even a single stone had been crushed.
This entire site crushed about 20,000 tonnes per day. |
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In about 1976, Jack re-designed this plant (shown on the right) in Wadi Hatta UAE and doubled its capacity to 2000 tonnes per day.
The rock was a wadi mixture of limestone, gabbro and basalt, the crushers were Parker and Simons. |
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Size is not a problem, Jack redesigned this small Goodwin Barsby plant in Montserrat even before it had been commissioned.
Finding out that suppliers get the design wrong is not unusual, it happens all the time.
The only problem with this one is that the manufacturer insisted on putting it together their way before it could then be reassembled correctly. |
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Process plants |
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Office tel: + 44 (0) 161 624 2916 E-mail: mining@ntlbusiness.com |
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Contact Jack
Office tel: + 44 (0) 161 624 2916 Office fax: + 44 (0) 161 627 0594
E-mail: mining@ntlbusiness.com E-mail: jack@miningis.com |
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The plant shown to the left was designed and constructed by Jack |
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The plant shown to the left is in Sur Oman.
It was designed and constructed by Jack.
The conveyors follow a proven design, the accuracy of fabrication can be seen in the picture. |
