Archives: Base metals

Kansanshi mine has significantly reduced costs and improved productivity by applying Weir Minerals’ Linatex® premium rubber lining solutions. Kansanshi, Africa’s largest copper mine, is located near Solwezi in Zambia. The mine site is very remote, so getting parts and replacement material to site is time consuming and costly. Of particular concern for the operation was[…]

Glencore Technology says it and Hatch are helping the Ozernoye project in Buryatia, Russia, come up with a process flowsheet suited to the complex composition of ore at the polymetallic asset. The mining and processing operation would produce zinc and lead concentrates. Ozernoye’s Grigory Koldunov said the company is currently preparing the area for the[…]

Heavy logistics specialist ALE was recently chosen to transport four large vanadium ore leaching tanks from their point of manufacture at Turnmill Proquip Equipment’s facilities in Vanderbijlpark near Johannesburg to a mine site in North West province, understood to be the Glencore Rhovan operation. The leach vats were installed by ELB Construction and replace ageing vats[…]

As part of a series of presentations at today’s Bulk Seminar & Site Visit by Anglo American in Brisbane, Dave Palmer, Head of P101, Anglo’s focus on exceeding industry best-in-class process & equipment, gave an update on its investment in bulk sorting at the Barro Alto nickel operation in Brazil. A first MMD unit is[…]

OHL has been awarded a new contract in Chile, worth close to €150 million, which includes engineering, construction and commissioning for the conversion and expansion of the copper sulphide processing plant at the Mantos Blancos concentrator, in Antofagasta. The project includes the revamping of the existing oxide line, the construction of part of a new[…]

Clean TeQ Holdings Ltd has announced the successful customer acceptance of commissioning and handover of a ground-breaking Continuous Ionic Filtration (CIF®) plant at an antimony processing facility in Oman. Sam Riggall, Clean TeQ CEO, stated: “Achieving successful customer acceptance of commissioning and handover of the world’s first ever commercial scale CIF® plant for this application[…]

Norilsk Nickel and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have signed a joint declaration to support environmentally-sound technologies in the metals industry, the Russia-based miner said. Li Yong (left), the Director General of UNIDO, and Dmitry Pristanskov (right), State Secretary — Vice President of Norilsk, were present at the signing. UNIDO is a specialised[…]

FLSmidth’s FerroCer® Impact wear panels have proven their worth in the mineral processing circuit at Hindustan Zinc’s Rampura Agucha operations in Rajasthan, India, having significantly outlasted the previous manganese liners the lead-zinc mine was using. By the end of 2018, the mine couldn’t say exactly just how good FerroCer wear panels were as they were[…]

PYBAR Mining Services says it is applying new technology to several automation projects it is currently working on, including Diversified Minerals’ Dargues underground gold asset and the Heron Resources-owned Woodlawn zinc-copper operation, both of which are in New South Wales, Australia. Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Rouse, says the company’s approach has always been to get[…]

Russell Mineral Equipment says it has released world-first technology that is expected to drastically reduce risk by relocating the mill relining activity from inside the confined space grinding mill environment to a highly accessible, safer area outside the mill. The semi-automated THUNDERBOLT Hammer guidance and suspension system, known as SKYWAY, has been in development by[…]