Mining Industry Valves

The mining industry is traditionally a heavy user of pinch valves because of the highly abrasive nature of metal concentrates and tailings slurries. Other common valve applications are lime addition, mineral laden process and dilution waters, and a variety of specialty applications such as pneumatic conveying of dry concentrates.

RF Valves© are in use at many mining companies around the world, BHP Billiton, Placer Dome, Kennecott, Codelco, Barrick Gold, IMCO, Phelps Dodge, Pasminco Mining, Etibakir, Outokumpu, LKAB, Freeport-McMoran, Southern Peru Copper, Mexicana de Cobre, Asarco, Chelyabinsk Zinc & Simplot Phospates to name a few.


High Pressure Iron Ore Slurry	Copper Concentrate

RF Valve® are favored as control valves for column flotation cells, dilution water, thickener underflow & tailings, and as on/off valves or isolation valve for pressure filters, slurry re-circulation, chemical addition, and water reclamation applications.