Revision as of 19:00, 13 August 2020

Thu Aug 13, 2020

Sees interest in heavy machines
Got a little bit into 3D printing
2 months backlog from COVID, now lower risk. Catching up at work now.
After 4-5 months will review if can spend more than 20 hours/week
Wants a chapter.
Engineers, mechanical, structural, electrical. Has a permanent team of lead engineers.
Metallurgical, process engineer - Lesego
Junior engineers, not permanent.
Mining. Process plant - they don't do greenfield (from scratch). Goes into operations that exist, or expansion. Feasibility studies.
Spiral system for washing chrome. Did a small plant. Electrical motors. Cheaper to run on electrical.
'I'm a metallurgist'.
Production and smelting facility, and creating the opportunity for others. Interested in steel.
3 steps in PMG - 1. concentrate by crushing, expose mineral. 2. Flotation or spiral, float - cocentration. You add surfactants. Aerophilic. Depressors. Silicates and other oxides - makes them more hydrophilic so they sink. Xanphaste,
Xanphate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthate#:~:text=Xanthate%20usually%20refers%20to%20a,most%20xanthate%20salts%20are%20yellow.
Frother - petro-based materials
Easier to buy the concentrate - chromate, and then mix with iron source to get ferrochrome
South Africa is the window to Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintek
Obviously I want it all. Agile and rapid development. Printer + Torch first. Then heavy machines.

Video of Interest submitted - https://vimeo.com/436360890

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 *South Africa is the window to Africa.
 *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintek
-*Obviously I want it all. Agile and rapid development.
+*Obviously I want it all. Agile and rapid development. Printer + Torch first. Then heavy machines.
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