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Mining & Metals
Mining & Metals

Spartan Controls: Over half a century of excellence in mining solutions

Spartan Controls has been providing products and solutions for the mining industry for over half a century.
Through close collaboration with partners in mills across Western Canada, Spartan Controls has developed the SpartanPRO™ collection, delivering specialized solutions tailored to the unique needs of mining operations.
These field-tested solutions address the most challenging and financially impactful aspects of mining, ensuring that your mill’s operational efficiency is elevated to its highest potential.
By integrating Spartan Controls' comprehensive portfolio and proven solutions, mining operations can achieve unparalleled efficiency and reliability, driving success in a competitive industry.

Why Mining Operators Choose Spartan

  • 50+ years working with surface and underground mines in Western Canada
  • Largest local reliability and automation service team in the region
  • Deep application expertise in slurry handling, gas detection, tailings, combustion, and emissions
  • Proven results in throughput gains, energy reduction, and worker safety

Key Innovations

Clarkson Knife Gate Valves
Isolation

Clarkson Knife Gate Valves

Clarkson knife gate valves are well-suited for the mining industry due to their robust design and reliable performance in handling slurry and abrasive materials. These valves utilize advanced elastomeric sleeve technology, ensuring a tight shutoff and preventing leakage under demanding conditions. Clarkson valves support bi-directional flow and provide unobstructed passage, which helps eliminate turbulence and pressure drops, making them efficient for slurry isolation.

Fisher V150SD
Final Control

Fisher V150SD

The Fisher V150SD control valve, designed for severe service applications like thickener underflow in mining, extends service life by combining Spartan Controls' valve health monitoring services with durable materials. This solution helps prevent unrepairable damage by advising timely replacement of wear parts.
Challenge | Solution | Value
Dataworks for the Metals and Mining Industry
aspentech

Dataworks for the Metals and Mining Industry

Mining companies are at various stages of digitalization, often facing challenges in generating timely, actionable data from diverse, siloed sources. Department heads need an integrated solution to make informed decisions across plant, machinery, and software, regardless of data formats.

AspenTech’s integration layer enables mining companies to implement best-of-breed technology with minimal complexity, facilitating automated or semi-automated data and process workflows as operations scale.

SpartanPRO Mining
Advanced Control

SpartanPRO Mining

Spartan Controls' SpartanPRO™ Industry Solutions for mining offer advanced process control (APC) applications designed to tackle the toughest challenges in the industry. With over 20 years of expertise, these solutions focus on improving safety, production, recovery, efficiency, and reducing environmental emissions. Pre-engineered for quick deployment, SpartanPRO™ solutions ensure sustainable performance through thorough instrumentation reviews, expert design, and ongoing support. Benefits include up to 10% reduced operational costs, 10% increased throughput capacity, 5% improved energy efficiency, and up to 90% reduction in process trips
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Metals & Mining Challenged We Solve

  • Maintaining stable operation in crushing, grinding, flotation, and tailings
  • Eliminating unplanned downtime in pumps, valves, and rotating equipment
  • Enhancing worker safety through real‑time detection and alarming
  • Reducing energy consumption and reagent use
  • Managing environmental compliance: emissions, water use, and discharge
  • Modernizing aging controls & infrastructure while minimizing risk

Mining Application Solutions

NECI uses proven techniques to PM development and failure-based techniques for helping you to integrate predictive maintenance technologies.
NECI uses proven techniques to PM development and failure-based techniques for helping you to integrate predictive maintenance technologies.
  • Motor control & drives
  • Asset monitoring for bearings and gearboxes
  • Dust, air quality and visibility monitoring
  • Conveyor emergency shutdown & safety systems
  • Mill load monitoring
  • Bearing & gear health analytics
  • Cyclone monitoring
  • Mill optimization through better control & instrumentation
  • Reagent dosing optimization
  • Dart valve automation
  • Froth level control
  • Gas flow & air delivery management
  • Pump health & cavitation detection
  • Pipeline monitoring
  • Level, flow, and density measurement
  • Water balance analytics
  • Combustion & emissions control
  • Energy optimization
  • Safety instrumented systems
  • Distributed Control Systems (DCS) & Site‑Wide Control Architecture
    Modern, scalable DCS platforms that unify utilities, process areas, electrical systems, and safety layers into one coherent operating environment. Improve visibility, alarm management, sequence control, and overall site reliability with proven control system expertise.
  • Utilities & Energy Systems
    Integrated control and monitoring for steam, compressed air, water, and power systems that support upstream and downstream mining processes.
  • Water, Air & Environmental Systems
    Accurate measurement and monitoring of level, flow, pressure, water quality, dust suppression, ventilation, and environmental compliance systems.
  • Fuel Handling & Storage
    Instrumentation, controls, and safety solutions that ensure reliable and compliant fuel storage and delivery to power generation, mobile equipment, and plant utilities.
  • HVAC, Ventilation & Safety Systems
    Reliable control and monitoring to maintain safe working conditions in both surface and underground environments.
  • Electrical Distribution & Motor Control
    MCC and switchgear integration, drives, protection systems, and monitoring to maximize uptime and reduce failure risk in critical site infrastructure.
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Proven Results
CASE HIGHLIGHTS

Proven Results

  • Reduced pump failures at a major copper mine by enabling early detection
  • Optimized reagent consumption using advanced analytics
  • Stabilized grinding circuit performance with improved control strategy
  • Enhanced safety with real‑time gas monitoring in underground operations
  • Challenge | Solution | Value

Industry Blogs

Digital Transformation

Advanced Process Control for Ore Processing Improves Throughput, Efficiency and Sustainability

August 25, 2022
A practical, experienced approach to advanced control in mineral processing. "The ability to shave even a few percentage points off total energy consumption per ton can result in huge increases to a facility's bottom line, along with substantial improvements to efficiency and sustainability."
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Environmental Solutions

Steam Solved: 4 Steps to Improve Steam Trap Operation

April 15, 2025
Steam trap failures can significantly impact plant efficiency, safety, and operating costs. This blog will walk you through a four-step approach to improve steam trap operation using real-time monitoring, risk-based prioritization, and proactive maintenance strategies that reduce energy loss and enhance long-term system performance.
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Asset Management & Reliability

Getting the Most out of Your Reliability Instrumentation Investments

March 8, 2023
The data used in higher level networks often lack resolution and information. Understanding the full capabilities of protection systems and instrumentation can unleash valuable information to further define models and system behavior.
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Digital Transformation

OnePlant™: The Best Integration Is No Integration

July 29, 2024
Spartan Controls' OnePlant™ solution revolutionizes industrial automation by eliminating integration complexities, providing seamless access to all plant data through Emerson’s DeltaV DCS, and enhancing operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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Digital Transformation

Industrial Operations (Re)Born Digital

February 21, 2023
The adoption of Industry 4.0, also known as the large-scale digitalization of industrial businesses, is rapidly changing the way industrial operations are run. This digital transformation has required significant investments from operating companies and their partners in operations technology and information technology.
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Digital Transformation

Go Digital or Go Home - Part 1 of 2

August 28, 2020
Industrial data of all types is critical to the digital transformation and Industry 4.0 programs ongoing in the process industries. What has proven challenging for many organizations, is finding a scalable approach to the connectivity, consolidation and contextualization of these diverse operational technology (OT) data sets.
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Digital Transformation

Go Digital or Go Home - Part 2 of 2

October 5, 2020
There is tremendous business value, which can be generated with modern information technology and data science when applied to operational data, but the ‘digital plumbing’ required to manage this data cannot be overlooked. In Part 2 of this blog series, we look at approaches that are being commonly deployed to address these issues today.
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Featured Metals & Mining Products

Fisher VeeBall V150 Flanged Control Valve
Emerson
Ball Valves
Fisher VeeBall V150 Flanged Control Valve
Clarkson Model KGD Wafer Style Slurry Valve
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Slurry Control
Clarkson Model KGD Wafer Style Slurry Valve
Clarkson Figure SU10R Polyurethane Knife Gate Valve
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Knife Gate Valves
Clarkson Figure SU10R Polyurethane Knife Gate Valve
Vanessa Series 30,000 (Basic Configuration)
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Triple Offset Valves
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DeltaV PK Controller
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Controllers
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Non-Intrusive Ultrasonic (FLEXIM)
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Ultrasonic
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Rosemount 3051 Coplanar Pressure Transmitter
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Pressure Transmitters and Transducers
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Rosemount 8705 Flanged Magnetic Flow Meter Sensors
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Magnetic
Rosemount 8705 Flanged Magnetic Flow Meter Sensors

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