Dore Anode Casting

Get good quality anodes, precise shapes and weight, stacked according to your needs and immediately ready for the subsequent process using the Metso´s Outotec silver anode casting machine. It integrates modern design with a high degree of mechanization and automation, ensuring availability, efficiency, and safety, along with optimal control and operability to facilitate smoother daily operations at the Precious Metals Plant.

Dore Anode Casting

Effectively cast dore anodes at high capacity with Metso's Outotec Dore Anode Casting.

Results in a very accurate casting weight
Allows high-capacity casting
Offers a modular construction for easy serviceability
Includes a high level of automation
Provides automatic anode handling and packing

Benefits

Easily adapted to fit several furnace types
Adaptable to meet your needs – can handle several types of anodes
Water preservation due to controlled cooling of anodes
Easily repositioned for simplified furnace maintenance
Low occupancy:
One operator operating both furnace and casting machine operation
One operator for anode harvesting
High throughput whilst ensuring high quality products
Systematic mold maintenance procedure for extended mold life
Full logistics solution available – from molten material to stacked anodes at your silver refinery.

Features

Semi-automatic machine where:

- Two step anode cooling sequence,
- Anode separation from mold and
- Anode stacking are all fully automatic features

Operator controlled operations:

- Doré dosing in the mold

- Doré pouring from furnace

High throughput: 2000 kg/hour or 45 anodes per hour.

Ventilation of fumes and cooling water vapor trough an included ventilation hood

Burners for launder and tundish heating and mold preheating

Automation system that integrates furnace and casting machine operation via remote-control unit.

Product information

The casting machine is a movable unit mounted on rails. It is fed with Doré silver from an adjacent furnace (TROF, induction furnace, etc.). The anodes are cast in molds, chilled until set, separated from the molds and stacked in the same center to center distance as in the Metsos Outotec AgER cells.

After final cooling in the casting machine cooling bin, the anodes are harvested by means of a lifting tool and repositioned in designated anode stands. These logistics tools help fill the gaps in the logistics chain, simplifying anode handling in both plant areas.

The machine is semi-automatic in the sense that the internal process is done in programmed sequences which are controlled by the operator.