Archives: Base metals

FLSmidth’s Capital Markets Day on January 18, 2023 marked the culmination of a major portfolio review that really ramped up on the completion of its acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s mining business on September 1, 2022. But the overall change at FLSmidth also runs much deeper – Group CEO Mikko Keto also said during the CMD event[…]

Draslovka Holding a.s., a Czech family-owned global leader in cyanide-based specialty chemicals, says its glycine leaching technology has been selected to be part of the OZ Minerals’ Think & Act Differently (TAD) incubator and Waste-to-Value Challenge. The latter challenge, announced back in December, sees Rio Tinto and Boliden working in collaboration with OZ Minerals to[…]

A new ore transport system supplied by RBL-REI to the manganese mining company Comilog in Gabon, part of French global mining and metallurgy group Eramet, includes a package of belt conveyors at the Moanda mine site, the longest of which is an overland conveyor of over 6.5 km. About 5 Mt/y of ore is produced[…]

Excelsior Mining says it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Nuton LLC, a Rio Tinto venture, to evaluate the use of its Nuton copper heap leaching technologies at Excelsior’s Johnson Camp mine in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Rio Tinto has developed the Nuton technologies, an extensive portfolio of advanced copper heap leaching technologies targeted[…]

Diemme Filtration’s GHT5000F Domino, the largest filter press in the world, is finally in operation. IM can reveal that the unit is running at the Toquepala copper mine in Peru, which is operated by Southern Copper Corporation (SCC), a majority owned subsidiary of Grupo Mexico. The unit first arrived in Peru in the summer of[…]

Anglo American has announced the appointment of Alison Atkinson as Group Director –Projects & Development and a member of Anglo American’s Group Management Committee, to take effect during the second quarter of 2023. Alison is currently the CEO of AWE, an arms-length body of the UK Government responsible for developing and maintaining essential elements of[…]

BHP Xplor, an accelerator program introduced by BHP in August 2022, has announced its first cohort of seven companies focused on discovering the copper, nickel and other critical minerals needed to support the energy transition. These seven have been selected out of hundreds of applications received from all around the world, BHP said, adding that[…]

On January 11, Minera Centinela, the copper miner and part of Antofagasta Minerals, held the inaugural ceremony of its autonomous operations in the Esperanza Sur pit. This is an initiative that involved an investment of approximately $60 million dollars and training of nearly 100 people to ensure they have the skills required for the mining[…]

KEFI, the gold and copper exploration and development company with projects in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is pleased to announce the award of five additional exploration licenses through the company’s Gold and Minerals Ltd (GMCO) joint venture in Saudi Arabia. GMCO is owned 30% by KEFI and[…]

Barrick Gold Corporation has signed new joint venture agreements with Ma’aden for two prospective exploration projects comprising the Jabal Sayid South and Umm Ad Damar license areas. These new prospective joint ventures significantly expand Barrick’s exploration footprint in Saudi Arabia, grow the Ma’aden Barrick partnership and open up potential synergies with the neighbouring Jabal Sayid[…]