The elimination of recirculation within a slurry pump not only lowers power consumption but significantly reduces uneven wear on parts, and this, according to Morne Potgieter, Sales and Customer Service Manager of FLSmidth Krebs in South Africa, equates directly into an overall improved wear life of the pump, lowering spare parts stockholding, downtime and labour[…]
Polymetal International has signed a $140 million loan agreement with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The loan will finance remaining capital expenditures for the Kyzyl project, which is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2018. The facility has an effective tenor of five years with a final maturity date in[…]
Bell Equipment’s board of directors has announced the appointment of the company’s Chief Operational Officer and executive director, Leon Goosen, as Chief Executive Officer designate to succeed Gary Bell upon his planned retirement. The appointment follows an extensive internal, local and international search process by an external service provider to identify candidates, who were assessed[…]
Anaconda Mining has commenced a research and development project to develop, prototype and optimize a new technology to mine steeply-dipping narrow gold veins, that cannot be mined cost-effectively with existing technologies. The company has subcontracted expertise of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) to support the research project.[…]
Australian gold producer, Southern Gold’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Southern Gold Korea (SGK) has received approval from South Korean mining regulators enabling the re-opening of and access to the historic Gubong underground gold mine. This approval will enable Southern Gold’s development partner, LSE-listed Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd, to achieve access and begin its process of project assessment[…]
Pretium Resources announces that the first gold has been poured at the Brucejack high-grade underground mine and that the flotation and gravity circuits are now operational. In addition, gold-silver flotation concentrate is being produced and bagged, with initial shipments scheduled. Construction crews continue to be phased out as construction winds down and the operations team[…]
FLSmidth will be working with Goldcorp to develop EcoTails™, a new system to dramatically improve tailings and waste rock disposal while economically processing mine waste and increasing water recovery and reuse by as much as 90–95%. Together with the world’s third largest gold miner, Goldcorp, FLSmidth is co-developing a system for co-mingling dewatered tailings with[…]
Communication within a mining operation is critical to the safety of the people and underpins the mining operation; however in underground mining this is seldom a case of one-system-fits-all. Don du Plessis, General Manager of Booyco Ya Batho, says that for this type of communications network to be effective and reliable it has to be[…]
The Western Australian Government has announced a ban on future uranium mining leases, but will not stand in the way of projects that have been granted State Ministerial approval by the former government. This follows the election promise to block future applications to mine uranium in Western Australia. It says the actions being taken are[…]
BacTech Environmental Corp has shipped approximately 150 kg of arsenopyrite gold concentrate to Laurentian University in Canada. With the supervision of Inspectorate Ecuador (subsidiary of Bureau Veritas), the concentrates were collected from various flotation plants in Ponce Enriquez, southern Ecuador. In addition to concentrate, smaller samples of oxidised rock and unprocessed arsenopyritic ore were shipped.[…]