Dust Collectors for Mining

Gold Series® on Mining Applications

The Gold Series® cartridge dust and fume collector combines enhanced performance with ease of service while cleaning the work environment of irritating dust and fumes. Mining is one of many industrial dust collection applications that the Gold Series has been used on.

Mining Excavation Site

Controlling dust at excavation sites, mill transfer points and similar locations is a difficult challenge. The EPA has strict limits on annual emission amounts. If emissions are too high, production schedules may be curtailed. that’s why proper design and selection of dust collection equipment is such an important concern. Minimizing emissions allows production of more product.

Two GS96's at a Nickel Mine

Farr’s innovative Gold Series collector is uniquely suited to the mining industry because of its extremely rugged heavy-gauge construction: It features a compact modular design that optimizes field flexibility and integrates well with conveyor bin vents.

Stack testing of the Gold Series collector in mining applications has measured less than .0005 grains per cubic foot of emissions, about half the emissions level for which the collectors were permitted. The Gold Series collector has a much smaller footprint than a conventional baghouse and operates at lower pressure drop. The pleated filters are mounted vertically inside the collector, eliminating the problems of dust blinding and premature failure that sometimes occur with horizontally installed filters. HemiPleat® high efficiency cartridges and a cross low inlet design allow the Gold Series to handle very heaving loadings that horizontal cartridges cannot.

GS units on Crushing Copper Ore

Benefits of the Gold Series Collector

High entry cross flow, inlet eliminates upward can velocities that can hold fine powder up in the filters reducing re-entrainment of the fine particles.
Vertically arranged filters shed all the metal particulate - vs. horizontal filters which allow the metal to build on top of the filter.
High efficiency filters stop 99.99% at 0.5µ of the dust!
Special treated filter media repels the fine particle for lower pressure drop and long filter life.
Gold Cone® provides 25% more media for long service life.

Gold Cone® Cartridge

Camfil Farr Gold Cone cartridges have an expanded capacity due to the patented inner Gold Cone. This inner cone increases media area and provides uniform dispersion of back-pulsed air. It also opens up more useable space for air flow in the filter. More Info

Key benefits:

High filtration efficiency
Excellent energy performance
Long element life

Mining Application Focus Users

Unimin Corporation
Phelps Dodge/Freeport
Aker Kraerner
Ravensthorpe Nickel

Oglebay Norton Specialty Minerals
ESSA
Simcala
Codelo