Minerals Research Laboratory
Laboratory
Why pick this one
Minerals Research Laboratory combines bench testing with continuous pilot plant studies and can develop flowsheets toward commercial mineral processing plant design.
Best for
- Industrial mineral beneficiation research
- Bench-scale mineral separation testing
- Continuous pilot plant studies
- Preliminary feasibility and conceptual plant design
- Mine tailings characterization and utilization studies
- Mineral processing research requiring grinding, flotation, gravity, magnetic, or electrostatic separation
Look elsewhere if
- Routine laboratory work unrelated to industrial minerals or mineral processing
- Projects requiring emergency or rapid-response laboratory service
Specialties
- Industrial mineral beneficiation
- Bench-scale mineral processing testing
- Continuous pilot plant testing
- Mineral separation
- By-product and mine tailings utilization studies
Certifications
- North Carolina State University College of Engineering
- NC State Industry Extension Services
- Land Grant Institution
What makes them different
- Operates an Asheville facility with batch laboratories and continuous pilot plant equipment
- Can scale batch laboratory data into pilot plant testing, flowsheet design, and commercial plant design
- Offers on-site or client-facility research for corporate sponsors
- Provides wet and dry grinding, gravity, magnetic, electrostatic, solid-liquid separation, sizing, and flotation testing
- Works with clients across North Carolina, the United States, and internationally
- Years in business
- 80
- Serves
- Asheville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 180 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
- Phone
- (828) 251-6155
- Website
- http://mrl.ies.ncsu.edu
Services
- Bench laboratory testing
- Pilot plant testing
- Conceptual plant design and preliminary feasibility
- Plant evaluation
- Technical assistance
- Process audits and assessments
- Industrial services
- Mineral characterization