Solvay is celebrating the completion of a 20% capacity expansion at the company’s Mount Pleasant, Tennessee facility (US), originally announced in December 2021. It says this milestone reaffirms Solvay’s commitment to the mining industry and its efforts to respond to growing demand from mining operations for its ACORGA®, ACORGA® NR and ACORGA® OPT copper solvent[…]
Blackstone Minerals Ltd has announced the inclusion of Metso as the technology supplier for the definitive feasibility study of the company’s pCAM (precursor cathode active material) processing plant in its Ta Khoa refinery in Vietnam. Metso is already involved in the design of the pCAM plant and will also conduct independent pCAM test work to[…]
Xintianling Wolfram Mine in China has partnered with HPY Technology to upgrade the ore content and reduce the amount of tailings being processed at its operation in China. Established in 2008, Hunan Nonferrous Metals Xintianling Wolfram Mine Co., Ltd. (Xintianling Wolfram Mine) represents the largest individual producer of tungsten concentrate in China. With a processing[…]
Lantania says it has strengthened its position as a leading company in industrial water treatment with a contract to expand the permanent water treatment plant (PWTP) of the First Quantum Minerals-owned Cobre Las Cruces mining complex, in the province of Seville, Spain. The company has been awarded the contract for the drafting of the project,[…]
Aramine, a leading player in the underground mining industry for over 45 years, has announced the opening of its new subsidiary in Poland. After Mexico, Niger, Burkina and Armenia, this strategic expansion it says demonstrates the company’s ongoing commitment to meet the proximity needs of its international customers and to strengthen its presence in the[…]
Epiroc has won a large order for mining equipment, including battery-electric vehicles and automation solutions, from Boliden for use at three of its underground mines in Sweden. The new order follows Boliden’s large order of similar equipment last year. Boliden, one of Europe’s largest mining companies, has ordered a range of mine trucks, loaders and[…]
Sandfire Resources Ltd on May 25 announced that it had successfully produced first copper concentrate at its Motheo Copper Mine in Botswana. Construction of the Motheo Copper Mine is nearing completion, with equipment commissioning activities over 92% complete for the initial 3.2 Mt/y processing capacity. T3 open pit mining is proceeding on schedule with more[…]
A new collaboration between BHP and Microsoft has used artificial intelligence and machine learning with the aim of improving copper recovery at the world’s largest copper mine. The use of new digital technology to optimise concentrator performance at BHP’s Escondida operation in Chile is expected to improve copper recovery. BHP Chief Technical Officer Laura Tyler said[…]
Metso broke ground on its first polymer filter plate factory globally, in Irapuato, in the central region of Mexico, on May 26. The filter plate factory it says will offer state-of-the-art production process efficiency, quality, and service capability to support customers’ sustainability and operative targets. The approximately €28 million investment was announced in September 2022. In[…]
Marking a milestone for the Glencore group as a whole, the Antapaccay copper mine in Peru in late 2022 began the process of autonomous blasthole drilling deployment where the equipment is monitored remotely from a control room without line of sight. Currently two drill units are being operated autonomously at the site. Glencore states that the key participants in this process are the employees involved, who are[…]