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Mineral Mining Solutions

KSB offers rock-solid transport solutions for phosphate, oil sands, dredge, sand and gravel, coal, alumina and diamond mining.

When you need slurry moved from one destination to another, nothing delivers like KSB's line of GIW® slurry pumps and hydraulic systems. GIW® slurry pump systems provide non-stop transport slurry tonnage more effectively than any other pump system running today. Connecting real world application, innovative design and precision manufacturing, every GIW® slurry pump system is built to last and to keep you running ahead of schedule.


Our products for mining

High-performance, wear-resistant slurry pumps such as the GIW® TBC and the GIW® MDX can handle the most aggressive slurries. Pump designs feature enhanced hydraulic systems and advanced materials, including proprietary solutions for critical wear parts.

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A Reliable Oil Sands Partner

KSB has worked with Canada to remove and process oil sands bitumen for over 30 years. The GIW® TBC pump is the most operated severe duty slurry pump in the Canadian Oil Sands history.

KSB is well-known for their line of reliable and long-lasting GIW® slurry pumps such as the TBC. However, KSB is more than just a pump manufacturer; we are a solution provider and lend total customer support.

Fort McMurray Service Centre has expanded in order to meet the future needs of the Oil Sands market. We now provide a larger and more efficient area for inventory and repair, maintenance inspection, system efficiency services, technical consultancy, training, and retrofit services. Our repair and rebuild capabilities also include service technicians who assemble to OEM specifications and standards.

KSB strives to be an innovative partner that provides you with the best and longest wearing slurry solutions and service. We are your partner, today and in the future.

GIW® slurry pump products are employed in the following applications:

Ore prep

  • Hydrotransport
  • Conditioning
  • Pumpbox Recycle

Extraction & tailings

  • Flotation Circuit
  • Froth Circuit
  • Thickeners
  • Tailings
  • Reclaim Water
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Phosphate

As a partner to the phosphate industry for over 120  years, we bring a wealth of experience no other company can rival. KSB has developed pit pumps, particularly the GIW® LSA62 pump, specifically for the phosphate mining market. The Florida phosphate market is the first to admit, GIW® slurry pumps are a key component to their success.

GIW® slurry pump products are employed in the following applications:

Mine site

  • Pit Pumps - Lowest NPSH required by any manufacturer
  • Matrix Pumps
  • Hydrotransport
  • Tailings Booster Pumps
  • Dewatering Pumps
  • High Pressure-Hydraulic Water Booster Pumps
  • Thickened Clay Dredge & Booster Pumps
  • Return Water Pumps



Concentrators

  • GMT - Tailings
  • Process Water
  • Screen Under Flow
  • Debris/Reject Pumps
  • Primary & Secondary Clay
  • Unsized Feed
  • Fine Feed
  • Coarse Feed
  • Spiral Feed
  • Fine Rougher Concentrate
  • Coarse Rougher Concentrate
  • Amine Concentrate
  • Fine/Coarse Acid Rinse
  • Clean Up Pumps (Vertical & Horizontal)
  • Cyclone Feed
  • Hydro Sizer Feed

Agglomerator

  • Filter Feed
  • Process Water
  • Gypsum Disposal
  • Rock Slurry/Ball Mill Discharge
  • Rock Transfer
Sand & Gravel

Sand & Gravel

Providing exceptional products backed by professional service and advice, KSB and ISCO Industries have partnered to meet their customers entire pump and piping needs. As KSB’s major North American distributor for the sand and gravel market, ISCO is committed to inventorying GIW® slurry products in multiple locations strategically situated throughout the country.

GIW® slurry pump products are employed in the following applications:

Dewatering

  • Slurry Overflow
  • Density Separation
  • Waste Pump
  • Tailings



Hydrotransport

  • Booster
  • Sand Dredge
  • Recirculation Screen
  • Raw Feed
  • Cyclone Feed
Alumina

Alumina

The high chrome alloys used in the GIW® slurry pump line provides excellent abrasion resistance and long life cycles in severe duties and provide Alumina plants with reliable performance and lower maintenance costs than other brands of pumps.

GIW® slurry pumps can handle the hot, abrasive slurries as they are moved from the milling and slurry mix areas to the digesters. The pumps can also help move the slurries through the processes of mud separation and filtering, precipitation and calcinations to create the finished dry alumina product.

GIW® slurry pump products are employed in the following applications:

Hydrotransport

  • Red Mud Waste
  • Transfer Red Mud
  • Precipitation Feed
  • Digester
  • Pump Off Pump
  • TranMud Pump
  • Blow Off Pump



Dewatering

  • Cyclone Feed
  • Process (Make up water)
  • Clean Up
  • Feed Tank Pump
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Diamonds

KSB provides equipment and support for the Diamond Mining Industry. Contact your local region manager for more information.

Coal

Coal

KSB has been designing pumps and moving slurry using GIW® slurry pumps for over 90 years. KSB's line of GIW® slurry pumps have been used to pump coal slurry in West Virginia, coal ash in the Ohio Valley, tar sands in Canada and hundreds of different materials in between — everywhere in the world. You can rely on KSB’s strong network of technical and service support to keep you up and running. 

GIW® slurry pump products are employed in the following applications:

Mine dewatering

  • Dilute Media
  • Screen Bowl Effluent
  • Flotation Feed
  • Filter Press
  • Thickener Underflow
  • Run Off
  • Froth Flotation



Hydrotransport

  • Heavy Media Vessel
  • Magnetite
  • Heavy Media Cyclone
  • Slurry Feed
  • Wash Down
  • Underflow

Classification

  • Classifying Cyclone
  • Deslimes
  • Raw Coal
  • Overflow
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Soda Ash & Kaolin

KSB provides equipment and support for the Soda Ash and Kaolin Industry. Contact your local region manager for more information.

GIW® slurry

LCC-M

LCC-M
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A high-efficiency slurry pump with excellent wear properties over a broad operating range. The wetted pump end (casing, impeller and suction cover / liner) is made of white cast iron with a high chromium content. Design optimised for easy dismantling and reassembly for maintenance and inspection work. The maximum permissible working pressures are between 8 and 16 bar, depending on the pump size. Perfectly suited for transporting fluids containing hardly to slightly abrasive solids. Ideal for sludges, classes 1 to 2.

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LSA

LSA
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Robust, proven, high-efficiency pump for high heads with pump components made of abrasion-resistant white cast iron, designed for the hydraulic transport of solids of the most various particle sizes, in the most diverse of operating conditions. Robust, proven, reliable and service-friendly

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MDX

MDX
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Pump designed with the latest technology from GIW. Superior wear properties and extremely long service life handling aggressive slurries.

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TBC

TBC
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Horizontal high-pressure end-suction centrifugal pump offering maximum resistance to wear and ease of maintenance. The conventional single-wall design transfers stress loads from the wear parts to the casing covers in high-pressure applications. Pump components made of highly wear-resistant white cast iron.

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WBC

WBC
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Patented design with state-of-the-art hydraulic system and highly wear-resistant materials for high-pressure applications. The pump casing is designed to withstand maximum stresses, e.g. during pressure surges.

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