HAPMAN CASE STUDY Mining and Metal Processing

Stillwater Mining Improves Smelting Efficiency and Yield,  Eliminates Dust with Tubular Drag Conveyor

For nearly 20 years, the Stillwater Mining Company has been extracting, processing, smelting and refining palladium, platinum and associated metals from a geological formation in southern Montana. The company conducts two mining operations as well as a smelter, refinery and laboratory in Columbus, Montana, to further upgrade the concentrate to a platinum group metal-rich filter cake.