Products & Services
Metextra Africa supplies precision equipment, processing chemicals and technical services across surface mining, crushing and milling, materials handling, pumping, dewatering, beneficiation and oil recycling.
How we can help
From a single consumable to a full tailings circuit, our technical team scopes the right equipment, the right chemicals and the engineering support to make them perform.
Surface Mining Equipment & Support Services
We supply and support a full range of surface blast hole and development rigs, load and haul fleet, pit wall monitoring and structural repair services.
- Down-the-hole (DTH) rigs, 127 to 203 mm
- Top-hammer rigs for development
- Rotary blasthole rigs for large benches
- Remote-operated and cab-equipped options
- Hydraulic excavators, 70 to 350 t class
- Rigid dump trucks, 40 to 100 t
- Articulated dump trucks for overburden and waste
- Wheel loaders, dozers and graders
- Radar-based slope stability monitoring (SSR, LiDAR)
- Drone photogrammetry and pit wall digital twins
- Geotechnical mapping and rock-mass characterisation
- Early-warning displacement systems
- Bucket rebuilds and lip-shroud replacement
- Boom and stick line-boring
- Hydraulic cylinder refurbishment
- Wear package optimisation (Hardox, chromium carbide liners)
- Blast pattern optimisation
- Consumables: drill rods, bits and hammers
- On-site maintenance teams
- Mine pit design, planning and technical audits
Crushing & Milling Consumables & Engineering Services
Wear consumables for the comminution circuit, backed by 3D mill surveying and metallurgical consulting that tie liner and media choices to recovery and cost.
- Gyratory mantles and concaves
- Cone crusher bowl liners and mantles
- Jaw crusher fixed and moving plates
- High manganese and chrome-moly alloys
- SAG, ball and rod mill liners
- Rubber, composite and steel designs
- Grinding balls, 30 to 125 mm
- Grinding rods, high carbon and heat treated
- High-definition internal mill scanning
- Wear rate prediction models
- Liner performance benchmarking
- Remaining life estimation and shutdown planning
- Mill load, power draw and filling level optimisation
- Cyclone classification efficiency modelling
- Recovery vs throughput optimisation
- Metallurgical accounting diagnostics
- Cost reduction through optimal liner design and media selection
Conveyor Belt Optimisation & Materials Handling
Materials handling components and services engineered to cut wear, spillage and energy use.
- Low-friction HDPE and polymer rollers
- High-abrasion resistant steel rollers
- Energy-efficient designs reducing kWh/t
- DEM-modelled chutes
- Flow control and dust suppression optimisation
- Reduced wear and spillage
- Ceramic lagging for high-tension drives
- Rubber lagging for secondary pulleys
- Fail-safe locking bearing assemblies
- Hot and cold splicing
- Belt health audits and thickness scanning
- Belt tracking solutions
- On-site shutdown teams available
Pumps, Pipelines & Spare Parts
Process, water and slurry pumping with pipelines, spares and engineering support.
- High-chrome slurry pumps
- Centrifugal water pumps
- Multistage high-pressure pumps
- Pump refurbishment and impeller balancing
- HDPE pipelines for tails and return water
- Steel pipelines (carbon steel and coated)
- Victaulic wear-resistant couplings
- Bearings, seals, impellers and casings
- Pump performance testing
- Pipeline stress analysis and design
Solid and Liquid Separation Systems (Thickeners & Clarifiers)
We supply and integrate a range of thickeners and clarifiers: high-rate, high-density (HD) and paste thickeners, and lamella clarifiers.
- Automated polymer make-up units
- Flocculant and coagulant dosing skids
- Flow-paced and density-compensated control
- SCADA/PLC integration
- Thickening circuit optimisation
- Underflow rheology management
- Overflow clarity control
- Reducing reagent consumption through correct dosing strategy
Decanter Centrifuges for Slimes Dam Elimination (Dry Stacking)
Metextra Africa Technologies provides GEA decanter centrifuge systems that eliminate slimes dams by producing a semi-dry cake and recycling clear process water.
- Solids throughput 10 to 80 t/h per machine
- Achieves 60 to 75% solids cake
- Turbidity below 200 NTU for recycled water
- Continuous operation with automated control
- Eliminates slimes dam expansion
- Reduces freshwater intake
- Cleaner reclaim water improves flotation stability
- Smaller environmental footprint
- Opportunity for tailings re-mining and PGM/chrome recovery
- Stand-alone decanter modules
- Full EPCM for decanter-based tailings circuits
- Hybrid thickener and decanter systems
- Mobile rental units for trial testing
High-Speed Separators for Oil Cleaning & Recycling
Oil purification, conditioning and recycling across refining, fuel storage, marine, power and retail fuel.
- Diesel, kerosene, HFO, LFO and VGO purification
- Removal of FCC catalysts, sludge and cracked carbon residues
- Oil recovery from oily wastewater streams
- Purification of turbine and compressor oils
- Removal of water and rust flakes from diesel tanks
- Treatment of stormwater-contaminated fuel
- Continuous conditioning of bulk storage fuel
- Prevention of microbial growth through moisture removal
- HFO bunker fuel cleaning
- IMO-compliant fuel conditioning
- Lube oil purification for ship engines
- Sludge volume reduction on vessels
- Base oil purification
- Additive blending quality assurance
- Spent oil regeneration and recycling
- Clean-in-place (CIP) varnish removal from blend tanks
- Turbine oil conditioning
- Transformer oil dehydration
- Diesel generator fuel polishing
- Hydraulic oil purification for industrial presses
- Fuel polishing before dispensing
- Removal of storage tank contamination
- Retention of warranty conditions for pumps and dispensers
Mining Processing Chemicals
A full reagent range for solvent extraction, flotation, thickening and water treatment, plus off-the-shelf bulk chemicals. See the full chemicals range.
- Solvent extraction reagents
- Flocculants
- Antiscalants
- Acid demisters and acid suppressants
- Frothers
- Depressants
- Activators
- Collectors (xanthates, PEG and others)
- Soda ash
- Caustic soda
- Lime
- Sulphuric acid, sulphur and other chemicals
Wash-Plant (Concentrator) Equipment
Gravity concentration equipment for chrome and mineral wash plants.
- Spirals
- Sluices
- Support equipment
One partner across the value chain
Equipment, consumables and chemicals under one roof, backed by deep metallurgical experience across PGM, chrome, base metals, gold and industrial minerals.
Strong OEM partnerships mean competitive sourcing. Fast mobilisation and strong technical reporting mean we stay with you on site.
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