Archives: Industrial minerals

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement for the delivery of a siderite calcination plant to Hekimhan Madencilik, a subsidiary of Koloğlu Holding, located in Malatya, Turkey. The value of the order is approximately €23 million ($26 million), and it has been booked in the company’s Metals’ Q1/2022 orders received. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery consists[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has been awarded a contract from BHP for the Jansen potash project, located in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The contract follows several years of close collaboration with the customer BHP to develop the underground mining equipment and automation solution. Sandvik confirmed to IM that the contract will include its[…]

Russian phosphate mining major PhosAgro has announces the launch of industrial trial runs for the new +10 m level at the Kirovsky mine of the Apatit mining and beneficiation plant. The first 400 t batch of ore from the new level was delivered to the processing plant. The Kirovsky mine remains the flagship mine of[…]

Emmerson, the Moroccan focused potash development company, has awarded the balance of the Basic Engineering scope of the Khemisset Potash Project in northern Morocco outside of the Mineral Processing Facility to Reminex SA, the engineering arm of the Moroccan mining company Managem Group. The Basic Engineering package for the Mineral Processing Facility was awarded to[…]

On August 13, 2021, one of the United States’ largest underground room and pillar limestone mining operations suffered a significant pillar and roof collapse. The mine is inside a mountain and accessed by horizontal adits, with the collapsed area deep inside the mine. There were no injuries as the mine was evacuated well before the[…]

There remains only one conference in the world devoted to the subject of In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC), an approach to mining that is seeing a high level of advanced studies as well as actual implementation – largely due to the fact that it is dominated by electric power so for some operations it allows[…]

Ahead of the Future Minerals Summit set to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 11-13 January, 2022, IM Editorial Director Paul Moore had the opportunity to talk with the Vice-Minister of Mining Affairs for the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Khalid Al-Mudaifer, who also happens to[…]

Today, Solvay launched an exclusive digital knowledge hub, the Mining Chemicals Handbook, which provides 24/7 access to relevant mining chemical application information for those active in this demanding sector. This is the first such resource in the industry, underscoring Solvay’s commitment to the industry and ongoing efforts to lead and innovate. Originally known as The[…]

Combining laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with artificial intelligence (AI), Lumine™ is an emerging new sensing platform developed as part of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) High-efficiency Mining program. “Analysing rolling stones on a moving belt is a bumpy and dusty business,” says Daniel Gagnon, Leader of the Systems Integration and Prototypes Team at[…]

Cornish Lithium Ltd, the innovative mineral exploration and development company based in Cornwall, UK, has announced that it has secured a transformational investment package of up to £18 million from TechMet Ltd, a leading technology metals investment company. “Securing long-term investment from TechMet is a significant step forward for Cornish Lithium and allows the company[…]