Why We Run Our Own Ta-Nb-Sn Mine in Nigeria?

Washing. A vibrating feeder sends raw ore into a trommel scrubber. The scrubber removes clay and takes out oversize rock in one pass. With weathered alluvial ore — which is what you find across much of Nigeria — poor washing is the single most common reason recovery falls short.

Screening. A vibrating screen splits the washed ore into size fractions, so each machine downstream gets the particle size it handles best.

Gravity separation. Jig machines and shaking tables pull the heavy Ta-Nb-Sn minerals away from the light waste. No chemicals, low power draw, solid recovery. For this ore, gravity is the cheapest way to a good result.

Magnetic separation. A three-disc magnetic separator upgrades the concentrate at the end, splitting columbite-tantalite from cassiterite so each product sells at its proper grade.

We drew the flowsheet, built every machine in our own factory, and our engineers installed and commissioned the line on site. One team carried it from first survey to first concentrate.

Nigeria Is Not the Only Site We Are On

Clients often ask us: have you done this outside your home market? Fair question. Here is the current answer.

In Tanzania, we are delivering an EPC gold project using all-slime cyanidation (CIL) — field surveying and mapping, civil construction, equipment delivery, commissioning. Full scope, one team accountable for all of it.

In Rwanda, a parallel project runs on the same model.

So when we tell overseas clients we work worldwide, what it means in practice is this: our engineers are on the ground in West Africa and East Africa at the same time, dealing with the same conditions you deal with — remote sites, rainy seasons, unstable power, training local crews. We handle those problems on our own projects, so we know how to handle them on yours.

A Machine Seller and a Partner Are Two Different Things

A machine seller gets paid when the containers leave the port. A partner is on the hook for whether your mine makes money. In practice, the difference looks like this:

Work starts before the purchase order. Survey, sampling, lab assay, flowsheet design — all of it happens first, so the equipment list rests on evidence instead of guesswork.

The whole line comes from one system. Because we design the flowsheet and build the machines under one roof, the scrubber, screen, jigs, tables, and separators are matched to each other. No mismatched feed sizes. No bottleneck surprises in month two.

We stay until it runs. Our engineers leave when your plant is producing and your operators can run it — not when the trucks are unloaded.

You pay factory price. We are the manufacturer, with full OEM capability. There is no trading company sitting in the middle of your budget.

Before You Spend Anything on Equipment: Test Your Ore. It’s Free.

Every project we run — Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda — started with ore data. Yours should too.

Send us a sample. Our lab will assay the Ta₂O₅, Nb₂O₅, and Sn content (or Au for gold projects) at no charge. Then we will tell you plainly whether the numbers support an investment, which beneficiation route fits, and what the equipment list and price look like at your target capacity — 10TPH, 50TPH, 100TPH, or beyond. If the ore is not worth mining, we will tell you that too. It costs us a lab test; it saves you a fortune.

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