Our Lego bricks in the form of concrete blocks might awake some fond childhood memories 😀 Yet they are a lot bigger and heavier! After all, two stable, new bulk material boxes are to be constructed for our pilot plant in order to store fine-grained complex ores!

The Institute of Mineral Processing Machines of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg participates as a partner in the AFK research project aimed at processing fine-grained native complex ore deposits. In particular, the already comprehensively developed deposits in the Western Ore Mountains are ideally suited for exploring new processing technologies for these complex, polymetallic ores, as their contents of the economically valuable elements zinc, tungsten, indium, fluorine and tin are particularly high.

However, there is still plenty of work to be done before the large-scale complex ore samples from the Tellerhäuser and Hämmerlein deposits can be safely stored in our test facility, since our concrete blocks cannot be put together quite as easily and quickly as Lego bricks 😉