Axis House supplies a full range of mining reagents to mineral processors. The range includes flotation reagents such as collectors, depressants, froth modifiers and flocculants; leaching reagents would include pH modifiers, acids, flocculants, solvent extractants and diluents.

Axis House is particularly well known for the pioneering work that has been done in its in-house laboratories in developing specifically tailor made oxide mineral flotation agents, the co-development of a low flash-point diluent, as well as being involved in the development of higher performing precipitation agents in copper and cobalt circuits.
In 2008, Axis House acquired the chemical business from ASX-listed Ausmelt; this broadened the Company’s oxide flotation offering of Sulphidisation reagents (and their successful application); modified fatty acids and amines (Rinkalore range) to also include the Ausmelt range of Hydroxamate Oxide Collectors.

This move enabled Axis House to offer a full range of Oxide Flotation Reagents. “Owning the technology gives us the opportunity to improve on it, something we do in conjunction with our Clients and AECI group company Industrial Oleochemical Products” states Managing Director Mr. Trevor McLean-Anderson.

Further to local technical collaboration, a full scale research project is underway in Australia, this is a joint venture with The Australian Government, Griffiths University in Perth and Australian Mineral and Metallurgical Laboratories Limited; in Sydney – the scope of the project is to understand how hydroxamates bond to oxide surfaces at a molecular level. Some of this exciting research will be presented at Flotation 2011. The commercial objective of this is to expand the application of various types of hydroxamate reagents. Some lab samples of Rare Earth Elements (REE) flotation reagents have already been made available. Watch this space!

Over the past few years Axis House has seen great growth in its technology sales where clients have been beneficial recipients of improved economies, in a nutshell: better recoveries and better grades, commercial sales of new reagents have been implemented at more than a dozen mines sites internationally. Molecule have moved from the labs into the processing plants by the ton.

Axis House has even managed to improve certain client’s efficiencies by looking at the precipitation agents being used and offering performance product’s in huge volumes.