Incline Conveyor Operations – Conveyor Safety Specialists
ICO Conveyor Belt Arrestor
Presentation to CMA - Safety Symposium– October 2012
Presented by Pierre Viviers
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Agenda
 Overview of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor (CBA)
 Benefits of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor (CBA)
 Features of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor (CBA)
 Reference Sites
 Questions and Answers
 Moving Forward
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Overview of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor
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Overview of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor (CBA)
 Arrests snapped Conveyor Belt, preventing Damage
and/or Fatalities
 Robust and Maintenance Free
 Reduces Downtime from 2-3 Days to 4 Hours
 Specifically Engineered for Incline Conveyors
 Enhances Safety and Productivity of Incline Conveyors
 Locally Designed and Manufactured to Highest
Standards (CSIR and SABS)
Safe, Reliable and Tested
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Benefits of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor
 The ICO Conveyor Belt Arrestor reduces the risk of
injury or fatalities due to belt and material rolling back
down the incline.
 The ICO Conveyor Belt Arrestor also improves
productivity as it reduces down time cause by broken
belts by up to 90%.
 The ICO Conveyor Belt Arrestor reduces damage to the
existing incline conveyor structure caused by a belt and
material rolling down the incline following a broken or
snapped belt.
 Reduces TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
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Reduces TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP (TCO)
 Maintenance
• CBA is robust and virtually maintenance free
• Lifetime of device longer than the lifetime of a shaft
 Safety
• Cost of fatality to mine
• Improved safety record of mine
 Productivity
• Reduces time to repair belt up to 90%
• Reduced time to clean up debris out of incline
• Allocation of resources to other projects
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Features of the Conveyor Belt Arrestor
 Will fit any incline conveyor belt width
 SABS approved materials
 CBA works on any incline from 9 to any degree incline
 CBA Top Arrestor is installed as close to the head
pulley as possible
 Designed and Manufactured for harsh mining and
Corrosive Environments
 Will catch any snapped belt within seconds of breaking
 Secondary safety devices can be linked to CBA
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Reference Sites
 SA Chrome
 Harmony Gold – Elandsrand
 Anglo Platinum – Boschfontein, Turffontein, Townlands, Underground, Amandelbult,
Rasimone, Zwartklip
 Zimplats – Ngezi Mine
 Anglo Coal – Phola Project
 Anglo Coal – Zondagsfontein
 Sasol Coal - Sigma
 RPM Bleskop
 Hernic Ferrochrome – Mooinooi and Brits
 Kumba Resources
 De Beers Group – Jwaneng – Botswana
 Goldfields – Kloof and Libanon Division
 Aquarius Platinum – Everest Mine
 Harmony Gold – Tsheponeng
 BCL – Botswana
 PMC – Palaborwa
100% Success Rate
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PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION
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Slipping Device
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CASE STUDIES
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ANGLO PLATINUM
BOSCHFONTEIN
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Anglo Platinum - Boschfontein
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Anglo Platinum - Boschfontein
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Anglo Platinum - Boschfontein
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SASOL
SIGMA
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Sasol Sigma
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Sasol Sigma
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GOLDFIELDS SOUTH AFRICA
KLOOFPLANT
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Goldfields - Kloof
 We are aware of 4 instances where the two belt snapped
and the Arrestors successfully caught the belt.
 Nigel Bower the then Engineering Manager at Kloof
Mine wrote ICO an e-mail confirming that apart from the
improved safety on the incline conveyor, Kloof save
R3,5 million rand due to reduced downtime.
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ANGLO PLATINUM
MOTOTOLO CONCENTRATOR
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Questions and Answers
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Contact Details of ICO
Pierre Viviers
Tel:
011 782-3717
Cell:
082 552 0222
Email:
pierre@ico.co.za
Incline Conveyor Operations
PO Box 84506
Greenside
2034
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Top and Bottom Combined Unit
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China – Triple Arrestor
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