Archives: Energy minerals

Gradiant, a global solutions provider and developer for advanced water and wastewater treatment, has announced partnerships with SLB (formerly Schlumberger), Rio Tinto and an Australia-based global mining company to, it says, improve productivity and sustainability in the mining industry with a focus on reducing carbon and water footprints. The projects are in the US and[…]

GR Engineering Services says it has entered into a binding term sheet with Yangibana Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hastings Technology Metals Limited, for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the beneficiation plant and associated infrastructure for the Yangibana rare earths project in Western Australia. The project is approximately 250 km north east[…]

Rio Tinto has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Platina scandium project, a high-grade scandium resource in New South Wales, from Platina Resources Limited for $14 million. The project, near Condobolin in central New South Wales, comprises a long life, high-grade scalable resource that could produce up to 40 t/y of scandium oxide,[…]

ASTERRA has announced that its Earth observation solution was used in collaboration with ACME Lithium Inc to locate 14 new points of interest for lithium in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, USA. In past uses of ASTERRA’s solution to locate lithium, it was reported that locating of the mineral was confirmed upon sampling with up to[…]

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[…]

TOMRA Mining says it is in the process of installing what will be the world’s largest lithium mineral ore sorting plant at Pilbara Minerals’ Pilgangoora project in Western Australia. The installation has already started and is expected to reach completion in late 2023. Pilbara Minerals says it owns the world’s largest, independent hard-rock lithium mine,[…]

Rockwell Automation says it is working with Cornish Lithium on a demonstration plant to validate the sustainable production of lithium hydroxide from micaceous granite. The Cornish Lithium demonstration plant will be controlled by the PlantPAx® modern distributed control system from Rockwell Automation. This DCS provides a single, plant-wide control system and increased flexibility for better[…]

The Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), based in Saudi Arabia, is the latest company to have benefitted from Mammoet’s specialised logistics offering. MWSPC operates some of the largest and busiest fertiliser plants anywhere in the world, including the Umm Wu’al Sulphuric Acid and Power Plant. This plant is in a new industrial city[…]

Sandvik is introducing what it believes is an industry-first ‘opt-out’ recycling program for customers of carbide drill bits, aiming to transform the use of a material expected to run out within 40 to 100 years if consumption rates continue unabated. Tungsten, a key component in cemented carbide, is a scarce and finite material. Making tools[…]

The Metso Outotec global network of testing, research and product development facilities covers the whole process flowsheet from comminution through separation, to filtration, refining and pyrometallurgical/hydrometallurgical processing. It has centres all over the globe – in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Finland, Peru, USA and more – able to, the company says, offer extensive expertise and[…]