Archives: Industrial minerals

Animmersion says it is continuing its long-standing relationship with Anglo American and the Woodsmith Project following delivery of a new 3D interactive experience designed to highlight the sustainable design and innovative engineering involved in the construction of the UK’s first deep mine in 40 years. Visitors to the Anglo-American UK website can now take an[…]

Leading Swedish mining companies LKAB and Boliden have signed an agreement to begin working together to investigate the possibility of extracting pyrite concentrate from mining waste at the Boliden Aitik mine, which LKAB will subsequently process into fossil-free sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid will then be used in processes for extracting rare earth elements and[…]

Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Holcim Switzerland have entered a collaboration to jointly test and further develop the use of autonomous electric & cabless haulers in a limestone quarry. Holcim’s Gabenchopf quarry in Siggenthal has been chosen as the site for this project. The statement said the battery-electric haulers currently being tested mark a groundbreaking step[…]

With a range of up to 200 km and 28 t of capacity, Chile’s first electric mining truck will be used at SQM’s operations in the Antofagasta Region. The goal is to test the technology and progressively replace high-tonnage diesel trucks. Each electric mining truck with these features can eliminate 12 t of CO2 per year.[…]

Balranald is a rutile-rich deposit in the northern Murray Basin of New South Wales, Australia. With deposits located approximately 60 m below the surface, Iluka is assessing the potential to develop these using a novel, internally developed, underground mining technology. Worley says its teams in Australia and Kolkata will provide engineering management and resources to[…]

Timegate and Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy have performed the world’s first trials of measuring mineralogy of high-speed drill cuttings by using Timegated® Raman spectroscopy. The experiment is part of the H2020 GoldenEye project and was carried out last week in Sandvik’s Test Mine in Tampere, Finland. In total, 18 different samples from six mines[…]

Like the rest of the mining industry, Germany’s underground salt and potash mining major has ambitious climate targets. The company says it is currently working intensively on the topic of e-mobility. At its Zielitz potash mine, it says it is currently testing a BEV solution from mining equpiment major GHH based on a new generation[…]

Hewitt Robins was previously awarded the contract to supply the UK’s largest and oldest working mine with a replacement Vibrating Screen. Winsford Rock Salt mine, part of Compass Minerals, previously had a 50 year old GEC 2.5 m x 7 m double deck linear motion screen which was becoming tired, problematic and in need of replacement.[…]

In order to “support the mining industry’s efforts towards sustainability,” Clariant has announced a new technical facility in Brazil exclusively dedicated to developing solutions for tailings management. The Competence Center for Tailings Treatment (CCTT) opened on September 27 in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mining is a key enabler for the[…]

Quickly developed material technology company Betolar and JA-KO Betoni, a company reforming the concrete industry, are assisting Keliber, which is preparing a lithium mine in Kaustinen, Finland, in utilising the massive side streams typically produced in the mining industry. Tailings produced as a side stream in Keliber’s minerals processing and analcime sand produced later in[…]