Gekko Systems specializes in the design, development and distribution of innovative mineral processing equipment and systems with a particular focus on gravity separation. Long term relationships based on trust and mutual benefit, and an emphasis on innovation, are the cornerstones of the company's philosophy. The business owners and team of employees, contractors, consultants, and suppliers are passionate about producing timely, high quality products and services for our customers.
The company seeks low cost, quality solutions to metallurgical problems. Improving environmental outcomes from mineral processing is a focus. Gravity separation by its very nature provides opportunities to both lower costs and improve the environmental profile of mineral processing. Maximising recovery through gravity separation by creating a high grade stream of concentrates for preferential treatment is a significant conceptual platform to help achieve these objectives. Gravity separation also has an important function in the efficient removal of waste.
Equipment has been installed worldwide to recover sulfides, free gold, native copper, silver, tin, tantalum, garnet and diamonds. Applications also exist for coal, mineral sands, magnetite, iron ore recovery, and platinum group minerals.
Gekko Systems has won a number of awards. Recent awards include:
- Winner Best Early Stage Category Award - Australian Venture Capital Awards 2003
- Innovation Award CGU Ballarat Business Excellence Awards 2003
- 2003 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
- Winner Telstra and Australian Government's Small Business Cisco Innovation Award 2002
- Winner Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award (AH Gray) 2002
- Finalist National Export Awards 2000
| Products and Services
The InLine Pressure Jig
(IPJ)
is a high yield, high recovery gravity separation device. It has been successfully installed in both
alluvial and hard rock applications. Significant advantages have been achieved in grinding circuits where coarse heavy
minerals or waste material have been recovered for preferential treatment prior to over grinding. Typically units are installed in the recirculating load with IPJ feed consisting of up to 14mm mill discharge or cyclone underflow. IPJs are also installed in alluvial operations as primary and secondary recovery units. |
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The InLine
Spinner is a fully automated centrifugal concentrator which has been installed to: upgrade InLine Pressure Jig concentrates, scavenge centrifugal concentrator and table tails, and as a primary concentrator. The InLine Spinner is a zero water consumption bowl. The bowl is fully automated for high recovery, high upgrade and high security. The inline Spinner offers significant operational and capital cost advantages. |
| InLine Leach Reactor (ILR)
has been used to increase recoveries of both free gold and sulphide related gold. In all installations of the ILR to date, significant increases in total recoveries have been achieved. This reflects the ILR's very fast leach kinetics and capacity to leach coarse and high grade gold concentrates.
The use of batch centrifugal concentrators to recover free gold from grinding circuits has become standard practice. Traditionally concentrates from these separations are upgraded by shaking tables. Replacing the tables with an ILR will significantly improve recoveries and lower the security risks generally associated with gravity circuits. The fast leach kinetics and aggressive chemical conditions of the ILR have also been show to limit the impact of sulphide minerals such as stibnite, pyrrhotite and pyrites in complex sulphide gold. Accordingly, the ILR offers potential to significantly increase overall mill recoveries.. |
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Design
Gekko Systems has a team of skilled process engineers, chemists and metallurgists capable of designing gravity separation process solutions appropriate to each individual application. Gekko's goal is to achieve the optimum outcome for our customers. The company focuses on designing full gravity modules for grinding circuits or alluvial mining systems. Manufacture and assembly of the modular components can be managed in-house utilizing both skilled engineering staff and a network of key suppliers. A design focus on automation, where necessary, improves security and flexibility of the modules.
Research Services
Gekko Systems is a specialist in the design of gravity and intensive leach test research programs. Determining the recovery of minerals at their liberation size, grade recovery relationships, size recovery relationships, as well as recovery of auriferous minerals through intensive leach work are the company's area of expertise. Gekko also specializes in onsite auditing and survey work on all types of gravity installations. A full mass balance is developed around the gravity circuit to allow optimization and an improved understanding. Gekko has also coordinated and undertaken successful research programs to resolve complex recovery issues. Frequently innovative process routes are recommended where traditional flowsheets have not proven successful.
