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LASE has provided 15 LaseBVC conveyor belt measuring systems to Vale’s S11D Complex in northern Brazil. In this huge plant the material volume, which is being transported on conveyors, needs to be determined by specific measurement applications from LASE. In the Brazilian municipality Canaã dos Carajas (Federal State of Para) Vale opened the world’s largest[…]

Roskill reports that Chinese lithium producers Tianqi and Ganfeng reported 2016 results last week, Tianqi’s 2016 revenue more than doubled to $547 million and profit increased three-fold to $390 million. Ganfeng also saw a doubling in revenue, to $400 million, but profit was up only 61% to $66 million; its performance lagging Tianqi as cost[…]

Northern Dynasty Minerals’ 100%-owned US subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership has received notice of approval of a Miscellaneous Land Use Permit (MLUP) from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for its ongoing activities at the Pebble project in southwest Alaska. Northern Dynasty’s principal asset, owned through its wholly-owned Alaska-based US subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership and[…]

Lithium Selective Technologies (LiST) has begun testing Voltaic Minerals’ brine solutions at its facility in Northern California. Voltaic Minerals has engaged LiST on an interim basis in order to obtain sufficient technical data to be able to negotiate a definitive production and use agreement. LiST’s technical team has over 85 years of combined lithium processing[…]

Peak Resources says its “BFS has been produced using a Tier One approach. We are also the only company outside of China that has used experienced rare earth industry operational and marketing executives to feed their expertise into a BFS back stopped by extensive pilot planting on the whole production process.” The BFS consultants were[…]

Nearly a year after acquiring one of Australia’s leading mining tyre service firms, Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group will be showcasing how the company is continuing to expand its reach and services for customers from coast to coast at the upcoming Asia-Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition (AIMEX), August 2017. “Kal Tire is committed to having a[…]

Flybrid will present its flexible and modular flywheel hybrid technology at the IMechE’s Off-Highway Vehicles seminar in Birmingham, UK on April 25. As it notes, the off-highway market is characterised by a large variety of specialised machines designed for a diverse range of tasks. In order to cater for this broad range of machines, Flybrid[…]

EuroChem Group, a leading global fertilizer company headquartered in Switzerland, has selected Veolia Water Technologies’ proven HPD® crystallization technology for its VolgaKaliy mine expansion project in Russia’s Volgograd region. The mine is scheduled to begin commercial operations in 2018, and the expansion, of which Veolia’s crystallization project is part, is scheduled to start up in[…]

This year, Chevron Lubricants and Kumtor Gold are celebrating an outstanding 24 years of collaboration at the mine in Kyrgyzstan. The relationship which began as the plant was opened in 1993 has continued unbroken for more than two decades thanks to Chevron’s continuing supply chain reliability, advanced Group II base oil technology and service excellence.[…]

As new uses for graphite, and graphene in particular, become known in rapid succession, Australian technology minerals company, Talga Resources, has achieved outstanding results, verified by an independent test laboratory, on graphene enhanced prototype concrete samples. As announced in July 2016, in addition to raw graphite and graphene materials, Talga is developing ‘fit for purpose’[…]