A separation plant is a place where the stones removed from a diamond mine are crushed.
Kimberlites shattered in the mine tunnels and the ore that results are transported to a centralized location close to the mine where the rough diamond company operates a separation plant.
The heart of the plant is a network of transporters that carry the ore through a number of crushers that grind the stones to the smallest size, separating the diamonds from the stones. The stones and the ore that are crushed are filtered using a number of methods. The diamonds found inside of them are collected in a number of ways, such as grease conveyors belts and x-rays.
The diamonds are collected and the lead that does not contain any diamonds except for minute ones, those that remain after the separation process, are carried to new piles and formed into artificial mounds. In some mines, especially older ones, where the separation of ore was done using older methods, the ore is put through another separation process.
The main action performed is similar to all separation machines and separation plants, whether we are talking about a small machine on location in a new area being canvassed for rough diamonds, or whether we are talking about massive separation plants that crush thousands of tons of ore every day, such as those close to the large diamond mines of Botswana, Russia, South Africa and Australia.
