Archives: Base metals

Micromine stakeholders recently visited the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia to witness firsthand the mine control and fleet management solution, Micromine Pitram. Prominent Hill is a copper, silver, and gold mine that is part of OZ Minerals, which became part of BHP on May 3, 2023. Prominent Hill produces one of the highest grades[…]

Eriez says it has won a contract to supply its HydroFloat technology to OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia. The project’s goal is to increase the recovery of copper and gold from the ore through a more efficient and sustainable extraction process, Eriez says. James Cooke, Eriez Australia Managing Director, said: “This is a significant milestone[…]

Hydro has signed an agreement with Glencore, who will acquire 30% of the Brazilian alumina refinery Hydro Alunorte and Hydro’s 5% ownership in the Brazilian bauxite producer Mineracao Rio do Norte (MRN). Glencore will acquire an additional 40% stake in MRN, which is currently owned by Vale. This 40% interest will be acquired by Hydro from[…]

MMG says the new solar farm at its Dugald River operations in Australia has hit the commerical operation milestone, two months after construction was completed. Reporting in its March quarter results, the company said it expected the solar project to reduce the mine’s carbon footprint and provide immediate energy cost savings, with approximately one-third of[…]

Weir Group continued to benefit from relatively high commodity prices, tightness in physical inventories of metals and minerals, and strong end market demand for commodities in the March quarter, registering a 22% boost in original equipment order growth in the three-month period. The company said brownfield activity and sustainability projects were behind this leap in[…]

Contractor and mining services major STRACON has announced the award of the vertical construction of the TMF (Tailings Management Facility) buttress tailings dam and the expansion of the WRF for Hudbay’s Constancia copper project in Peru, for a period of three years. STRACON stated: “Once again, we appreciate the continued trust that Hudbay has placed in[…]

First Quantum Minerals is in the process of bolstering its fleet of Liebherr T 284 trucks at the Sentinel operation in Zambia, in line with a redistribution of loading equipment to better suit working areas at the copper mine. In the company’s March quarter, Sentinel reported copper production of 36,232 t, 37,177 t lower than[…]

Today, the need for extraction and refinement of copper and other transition materials is essential to world development, as we navigate a transition to more sustainable energy technologies, Saleem Varghese and Carola Sepulveda* write. But as its importance has grown, copper ore grades have decreased at a rate of approximately 25% over the last decade[…]

A new and revolutionary process, being tested for the first time in the world, has been prototyped by Anglo American at its El Soldado copper operation in Chile. The project makes it possible to reduce water consumption by naturally increasing the recovery of this resource from the tailings themselves by approximately 80%. In addition to[…]

Ore sorting has been shown to provide both economic and environmental benefits, but many mines are not yet fully utilising this technology, according to HPY Technology. Yet, the company’s ore sorting machines are providing a breakthrough solution for Fankou, one of Asia’s largest lead and zinc mines, resulting in an annual revenue increase of around[…]