The new WL3000 Flip Screen will weigh about 45 tonnes and be ideally suited to 205t wheel loaders.
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance is using the company’s E130 Flip Screen – a model suited to 25-35t excavators – to screen coal at its Goonyella Riverside open cut operations in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
BMA said the Flip Screen was highly effective in separating contaminated material from the coal, and produced coal of high enough quality to be processed under normal coal preparation plant operating conditions.
According to Flip Screen Australia, another successful implementation of its product was in Moura, where coal was being contaminated by rock falling from the low wall.
The company said the Flip Screen was able to sort the coal from the shale to a very high grade.
The desired result was less than 5% contamination with the actual result produced by the Flip Screen being less than 3% contamination.
The WL3000 Flip Screen is due for release late next year.
