Archives: Base metals

As outlined in a statement shared with the Chinese media by Rio Tinto to coincide with a project celebration ceremony meeting, the Tier 1 miner and China’s State Power Investment Corporation Ltd (SPIC) green energy company SPIC Qiyuan are collaborating to pilot battery swapping technology at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. The two-year project will[…]

Metso is to deliver four Peracidox™ scrubbers to Hindustan Zinc to minimise sulphur dioxide emissions at its plants in India. The scrubbers will be installed at the sulphuric acid plants at the company’s zinc smelters in Chanderiya and Debari. “Metso has delivered numerous Peracidox scrubbers around the world. The ones to be delivered to Hindustan[…]

At the recent AusIMM MillOps 2024 conference held in Perth from 21-23 October, a presentation by Dr David Seaman, Manager Metallurgy – Technology & Innovation at Newmont, titled ‘Red Chris Flotation Circuit Expansion – From Piloting to Full Scale’ detailed how the miner managed to improve the performance of the mill flotation circuit for more[…]

First Quantum Minerals Ltd (FQM) and blasthole drill fleet autonomy company FLANDERS Electric have entered into an agreement to collaborate on advancing autonomous drilling solutions across FQM’s mining operations. The first roll-out of FLANDERS’s ARDVARC® system is scheduled for FMQ’s Zambian operation. The OEM-agnostic retrofit solution under ARDVARC enables autonomous functionality on electric or diesel[…]

Metso is launching CathodeSense+ for, it says, fast and accurate quality analysis for high-capacity throughput, ensuring reliable results for all cathode stripping machines. Developed for high-speed cathode stripping machines, Metso CathodeSense+ is a reliable free-standing system for the detection of nodules. Thanks to its advanced features, CathodeSense+ provides a full high-resolution 3D-scan, thus enabling higher[…]

Rio Tinto has completed the transition from conventional to renewable diesel for all heavy mining equipment at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah, giving the mine one of the lowest carbon footprints of any copper producer in the US, it claims. Kennecott’s fleet of 97 haul trucks and heavy machinery equipment at the mine, concentrator,[…]

Building upon a long-standing relationship, FLSmidth and Enter Engineering have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the delivery of the core mineral processing equipment for the MOF-4 copper-gold-molybdenum concentrator, which is being constructed in Almalyk, in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan. Once completed, the plant is expected to become one of the largest copper concentrators[…]

SolGold plc says G Mining Services Inc has been awarded the contract to provide project management services for the Cascabel Project feasibility study (FS), in Ecuador, following a competitive selection process that considered multiple firms with extensive mining expertise. G Mining Services’ project management scope will include overseeing timelines, milestones and deliverables, as well as[…]

During MINExpo 2024, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore sat down with Mike Gordon, Emerson Strategic Business Unit Director – Knife Gate Valves to discuss the uniquely broad role Emerson plays in today’s mineral processing industry. Emerson is one of the few companies in the mineral processing arena that starts all the way back at the[…]

The Thiess-Khishig Arvin Joint Venture (TKAJV) has secured a new contract to provide mining services at the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia. This milestone is significant as it will see TKAJV return to underground mining services, building on its recent successes with numerous underground construction projects, following the development of the 6.5-km twin declines.[…]