Archives: Comminution of minerals

Petra Diamonds says in order to help it better understand and prioritise an improved product mix at the Finsch diamond mine, in South Africa, all of the coarse diamond X-ray machines in the processing plant have been upgraded. The move, aimed at increasing the probability of the recovery of high value large stones, came as[…]

To ensure uptime on critical equipment, maintenance contracts are becoming an ever-more popular choice, according to vibrating equipment OEM, Kwatani. The South Africa-based company should know, as it has customised contracts in place to service over 500 of its machines in the Northern Cape alone. “Vibrating screens are critical to a mine’s material flow, which[…]

FLSmidth says it has acquired the assets of Mill-Ore Industries Inc, increasing its level of service for customers in the mining-rich hub of eastern Canada. The acquisition, which includes facilities and equipmen, will see all Mill-Ore employees transfer to FLSmidth. FLSmidth said: “Miners in eastern Canada can now expect faster, personal and local service, with[…]

Weir Minerals Africa, having over the last 40 years proven the credentials of its Enduron® range of vibrating screens, is now locally designing and manufacturing new-generation linear motion vibrating screens. One of these new, modern screen designs is part of a recent Weir Minerals Africa complete comminution plant contract for a South Africa mining project.[…]

Outotec says it has been awarded a contract from Renaissance Minerals, a subsidiary of Emerald Resources, for the delivery of process equipment to the greenfield Okvau gold project, in Cambodia. The order value, booked into Outotec’s 2020 March quarter order intake, is around €13 million ($14.2 million). Outotec’s scope includes the delivery of an Outotec[…]

Following positive X-ray Transmission (XRT) ore sorting test work on the Pegmont asset, in Queensland, Australia, Vendetta Mining is looking to apply this technology in its next mining study at the lead-zinc project. The test work, conducted at TOMRA’s testing facility in Sydney, Australia, concluded that the XRT sorters could distinguish between high-density/high-grade feed and[…]

Outotec says it has expanded its offering with new flotation cell and level-control solutions for “superior metallurgical performance”. The new solutions from the mineral processing equipment manufacturer includes the Outotec TankCell s-Series flotation units – standardised units based on the company’s proven TankCell e-Series solution – and Outotec CellStation (pictured), an “intelligent and easy-to-operate solution”[…]

Another big order for FLSmidth – the company is to supply four production lines of grinding equipment, with ancillaries, to a copper mine in the Khabarovsk region of Russia. When operational, the equipment will process a total of 84 Mt of ore per annum. The order is valued at approximately DKK 1,700 million and will[…]

Vale says it plans to invest up to $100 million to build an industrial plant for dry magnetic concentration of low-grade iron ore, bolstering its efforts to eradicate wet tailings facilities at its mines. The technology, known as FDMS (fines dry magnetic separation), is unique, Vale says, and has been developed by New Steel –[…]

It was a record year in terms of profitability for Metso in 2019; a year that saw the minerals processing company make several strategic decisions to fundamentally change its group structure. Orders received across the group increased 5% to €3.7 billion ($4.1 billion), with sales growing 15% to €3.635 billion. Adjusted EBITA rose from €369[…]