PROCESSING RAW ORE INTO VIRGINIA KYANITE™:

Once inside the processing plant, the ore goes through many processes including a wet rod mill to reduce the particle size to about one millimeter and finer, a hydrocyclone to remove clay matter from the slurry, a hydrosizer for classification, and spiral separators until the beneficiated materials is 90% to 92% kyanite.

Gravity is used to dewater the wet concentrate into a semi-dry material before dried and roasted to convert most of the iron oxide impurities to a form that is suitable for magnetic separation. The resulting 35 mesh product is then ground in this ball mill to obtain various finer sizes.

Processing Virginia Kyanite™ into Virginia Mullite:

The 35 mesh Kyanite is converted to Mullite in a rotary kiln where the temperature of sintering is in excess of 1450° C. and then ground in ball mills to generate other, finer sizes.

Our state-of-the art operation can produce more than one hundred fifty thousand tons of commercial grade Kyanite concentrate every year. The plant capacity can easily be increased if necessary very quickly. We have the capacity to store over fifty thousand tons of Kyanite and Mullite 35 mesh in bulk form.

Mining and Processing video clip (14.1 mb)