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Mobility as trend

• RHEWUM Liberty mobile screen

• Semi-stationary sorting plant in the Atacama...

• The RHEWUM MobiSort

• Diagram: Maximum specific feed rate as a...

• Unsorted feed material, here rock salt

• Sorted rock salt – rejects

• Sorted rock salt – product

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Summary: Over the last few years “on site” mineral processing with mobile or semi-mobile machines, especially crushers and screens, has increased sharply. In future, this form of flexible and economic processing of all types of raw materials will grow substantially in importance in sorting too. To accommodate this trend, RHEWUM GmbH has developed the MobiSort mobile optical separator. In this article, the concept and the possible applications for the MobiSort are described.

1 “Mobility” as a megatrend in mineral processing

According to Horx [1], around five megatrends are currently accompanying us. A megatrend is defined by the fact that it permanently accompanies human development. One of these five megatrends is mobility. We can already clearly see its influence in mineral processing. Whereas in the 1980s, the value materials were transported to the plants, it is now a matter of course for mobile crushers, screens (Fig. 1), magnetic separators, etc. to come to the site where the raw materials are extracted. The processing equipment moves with the deposit. That...