Containerized Laboratory Côte d’Ivoire：As mineral exploration activity continues to rise across West Africa, Qingdao Decent Group has once again demonstrated its expertise in mobile laboratory solutions with the successful design and delivery of a fully functional 40-foot High Cube (40HQ) containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire for a client operating in the region.
Tailored to meet large-scale sample processing demands, containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire features a complete sample preparation line—including two jaw crushers, two pulverizers, a rotary sample divider, along with dual sample workstations and an electric drying oven. This containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire not only enables efficient drying, crushing, and grinding of mineral samples but also provides strong, immediate technical support for deeper mineral resource development in Côte d’Ivoire.
The Strategic Importance of a Containerized Laboratory Côte d’Ivoire
In recent years, Côte d’Ivoire has become one of West Africa’s fastest-growing economies thanks to its booming mining sector and its increasingly strategic position. Because the local rich mineral resources fit in well with the current growing demand for mineral resources, it is attracting more and more attention from the international mining market. Currently, Côte d’Ivoire’s gold production continues to rise, while exploration for manganese, nickel, and iron ore is also recovering rapidly.
This means that more and more customers are increasingly demanding efficient and reliable on-site testing, aiming to ensure rapid output of test results and enable correct decision-making.
But the challenge is: like many emerging mining markets, Côte d’Ivoire lacks adequate high-quality laboratory infrastructure. Mineral samples obtained through exploration often need to be transported long distances, leading to delays in analytical results.
This delay is not only inconvenient, it also means:
- Critical go/no-go decisions get pushed back by weeks or even months
- Field teams sit idle while waiting for results
- Project timelines stretch out, increasing costs and financial risk
- For mining companies racing to scale up, this bottleneck can be a serious roadblock.
That’s exactly why one leading miner in Côte d’Ivoire turned to us. With operations expanding rapidly, they needed a professional, high-throughput sample preparation system that could handle large volumes—fast.
Their goal?
- A compact, on-site solution capable of efficiently drying, crushing, and grinding mineral samples at scale.
- By bringing prep work in-house, they could eliminate shipping delays, reduce logistics costs, and get data faster to support smarter, timelier exploration decisions.
The client emphasized several critical requirements for the mobile lab:
- A solution that could be deployed quickly despite limited local infrastructure.
- Simple operation and low maintenance costs in a remote setting.
- A fully enclosed, robust environment to protect sensitive equipment and maintain sample integrity against heavy rainfall and tropical humidity.
These challenges called for an innovative, robust approach—and the 40HQ containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire proved to be the ideal, high-capacity answer.
Containerized Laboratory Côte d’Ivoire Solution: Scalable Design and Optimized Workflow
To address the client’s need for high-volume sample preparation, Qingdao Decent Group designed and built a complete, custom 40HQ containerized laboratory. This massive container provided the space necessary to integrate all essential mineral processing equipment into a single, highly functional mobile unit.
High-Capacity Configuration and Smart Layout
Built specifically for large-scale, continuous operation, the DECENT lab features a dual-line design and reinforced core processes to maximize throughput and ensure continuity:
- Dual Crushing & Pulverizer Mill Units: Integrating two DECENT jaw crushers and two DECENT pulverizers significantly increases the potential daily throughput. More critically, this redundancy ensures operational continuity—even if one unit requires scheduled maintenance or unexpected servicing, the other line remains fully active, effectively minimizing costly downtime.
- Integrated Rotary Splitter: The inclusion of an automated DECENT Rotary Splitter is a game-changer. It automates the sample division process immediately after initial crushing, enabling the rapid acquisition of highly representative sub-samples. This step replaces slower, less accurate manual splitting methods, greatly improving overall efficiency, dramatically reducing potential human error, and ensuring the absolute accuracy of the data sent for assay.
- Dual Sample Workstations: The layout includes two fully equipped sample workstations. This enables multiple technicians to work simultaneously and independently on sample logging, weighing, and bagging, maximizing workforce efficiency and reducing processing time per sample.
A comprehensive view of the interior layout of Qingdao Decent Group’s custom 40HQ containerized laboratory in Côte d’Ivoire, showcasing integrated sample preparation equipment and advanced ventilation systems.
An electric drying oven, a key component within the sample preparation area of Qingdao Decent Group’s custom 40HQ containerized laboratory for Côte d’Ivoire.
A robust DECENT Jaw Crusher, part of the sample preparation area within Qingdao Decent Group’s custom 40HQ containerized laboratory for Côte d’Ivoire.
Professional Equipment Ensures Reliable Performance
Every piece of DECENT equipment integrated into the containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire was carefully selected and customized to meet the rigorous demands of industrial-scale operations in a tropical climate.
- Electric Drying Oven: This high-efficiency unit rapidly removes moisture from raw samples. This custom-built oven quickly removes moisture from raw samples—a critical step for consistent pulverization and grinding.
- DECENT Jaw Crushers: They reliably turn large rock fragments into uniformly sized material (typically under 5mm), which is ideal for the next stage of grinding. Consistent feed size means fewer bottlenecks and more efficient downstream processing.
- DECENT Rotary Splitter: This precision machine utilizes automated rotation and cutting mechanisms to divide bulk samples evenly and accurately. By guaranteeing that each sub-sample is perfectly representative of the original batch, it is essential for delivering the reliable assay results necessary for resource modeling.
- DECENT Pulverizer Mills: Grinds sub-sampled material to the fine particle size required for analysis. The dual-machine configuration ensures high throughput and continuous operation during the grinding stage.
All equipment is pre-installed at our factory and, after commissioning, packaged inside the container. The container laboratory is equipped with a complete dust removal system that meets laboratory requirements, ensuring efficient operation within a self-contained space.
Project Outcomes and Core Value Delivered
The successful delivery and commissioning of this large-capacity containerized laboratory Côte d’Ivoire has created significant comprehensive value for the Ivorian client.
The dual core equipment configuration exponentially increases the laboratory’s daily processing capacity compared to traditional, fixed-site or single-line mobile setups. This capacity makes the system uniquely suited to handle the high sample volumes generated by large-scale exploration and pre-production mining projects—with room to spare.
By packing all equipment into a single, self-contained unit, this solution saves valuable space on busy sites where room is tight. It also cuts down on logistics headaches, makes daily operations smoother, and slashes maintenance costs.
This project reflects Qingdao Decent Group’s commitment to delivering purpose-built infrastructure that solves real-world challenges for our clients, especially in remote or demanding environments.
To explore the full range of crushing and splitting equipment featured in our mobile lab solutions, visit the internal DECENT Equipment Solutions page.
Our Commitment: Delivering Expert Solutions Worldwide
Qingdao Decent Group is committed to delivering professional, efficient, and fully customized mineral sample preparation solutions for clients worldwide. Driven by technological innovation and a deep understanding of customer needs, we are deeply engaged in the field of mining laboratories, providing full-process services to global customers, from designing and manufacturing individual laboratory equipment to standard-sized container laboratories.
As the mining industry becomes increasingly globalized and technically demanding, Qingdao Decent Group remains committed to our core value: “batter than best.”
We don’t just meet expectations—we aim to exceed them at every stage. Looking ahead, we will continue to provide our customers, partners and the global mining industry with intelligent, high-quality and safe equipment and solutions to help laboratories operate more efficiently, sustainably and successfully in the long term.