Mining Magazine > Panorama > CiDRA secures Sino Iron project installation in Australia

CiDRA Minerals Processing, working together with KROHNE in China and Australia, have announced a project win at CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino Iron Project in Australia.  The Sino Iron project is being developed at Cape Preston, 100 kilometres south west of Karratha in Western Australia's Pilbara region. It is the largest magnetite mining and processing operation under construction in Australia. CiDRA SONARtrac systems will be installed on all magnetite slurry lines within the project and were chosen because of their non-intrusive, volumetric flow technology that is immune to the magnetic properties of magnetite. SONARtrac systems have been installed in more than 45 iron mines, most of which mine ore containing magnetite, in over seven countries worldwide.

CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino Iron project is a large-scale magnetite iron ore project; the first to include large scale downstream processing. The project has access to over two billion tonnes of magnetite ore and, when operational, will be one of the world’s largest mines.

CiDRA's SONARtrac flow technology is a new class of industrial flowmeter, utilizing distinct measurement principles unused in other flowmeter technologies operating in the mining industry. SONARtrac non-intrusive flow monitoring systems do not make contact with the slurry and can be removed and reinstalled without process interruption when it is necessary to replace the pipe. This passive, sonar-based technology enables measurements of single phase and multiphase fluids, as well as slurries, with the same level of accuracy and performance.