Archives: Comminution of minerals

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Mineral processing has evolved hugely in recent years, enabling mining companies to tackle lower grades and more challenging ores. But a lot of this has been achieved by increasing efficiencies through more refined designs of what are fundamentally the same basic processes that have been around for many decades and in some cases over a[…]

Starkey & Associates says it has arranged a sole source $1 million value contract with a major international mining company looking for geometallurgical ore hardness testing using its patented SAGDesign solution for process plant design. The company in question is developing two orebodies and requires this testing to design SAG mills using data from the[…]

In the context of the implementation of its ‘Infrastructure development and productive capacity improvement’ project, the goal of which is to see the mining operation through the next 20 years via works such as the construction of a desalination plant and associated pumping system, a fifth mill and new facilities to increase mineral recovery, Chilean[…]

Metso Outotec is expanding its service centres in Antofagasta, Chile, and Arequipa, Peru, to meet mining customers’ growing needs for servicing large and heavy equipment. The service centres in Chile and Peru will be expanded significantly including increased lifting capacity and machining capabilities. After the expansions, the centres will be able to repair and refurbish[…]

GR Engineering Services says it has entered into two contracts with OZ Minerals Musgrave Operations Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of OZ Minerals Limited, for the design and construction works of the West Musgrave mineral processing plant in Western Australia. GR Engineering has been engaged by the company to provide the following services for[…]

OZ Minerals and CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc have commissioned a front end engineering and design (FEED) study for a full-scale implementation of CiDRA’s novel minerals separation technology at the Carrapateena copper-gold mine site. Applying CiDRA’s novel technology as a Grind Circuit Rougher will help remove coarse material from the grind circuit circulating loads, enabling an[…]

Orica has released a new integrated digital solution for the quarry market to streamline and optimise blasting operations. BlastIQ™ Quarry is a smart solution that harnesses the power of digital technologies to help quarry operators optimise their drill and blast activities in near real-time. The offering is from Orica Digital Solutions, and allows quarry operators to[…]