Archives: Industrial minerals

As the mineral sector seeks safer and more automated operations in line with the ‘smart mining’ vision, leading underground mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation is making good progress with its own digitisation strategy. According to Mike Wells, Managing Director of Murray & Roberts Cementation, its new projects are increasingly embracing the power of digital[…]

Highfield Resources has signed a purchase contract for important components of the process plant in order to finalise the pre–construction activities at the flagship Muga potash mine situated some 50 km to the south east of Pamplona in Spain, which is being developed by subsidiary Geoalcali. Following a recent A$18.1 million capital raise, the company[…]

Metso Outotec is launching yet another powerful product in its range of concentrator plant units – the complete Stirred Mill Plant Units for efficient fine grinding. The units integrate Metso Outotec’s comprehensive stirred mills portfolio with other proprietary technology products like hydrocyclones, samplers, analysers, and slurry pumps. To complement this, Metso Outotec can offer a[…]

The recent move by Sandvik Mining & Rock Solutions to its new and upgraded Khomanani facility in South Africa has boosted the company’s already considerable service capabilities. The modern premises near Kempton Park in Gauteng include a mega-workshop that now rates among the global company’s largest facilities, according to Imraan Amod, Business Line Manager –[…]

Grande Côte Opérations (GCO), a subsidiary of the Eramet Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CrossBoundary Energy for the construction of a 13 MW hybrid solar power station with 8 MW battery storage. Dedicated to the Diogo industrial site (north-western Senegal) for the production of mineral sands, this solar power station is scheduled[…]

On August 23, CITIC Heavy Industries Co Ltd and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in Shenzhen, officially becoming strategic partners. The two sides “will seize the strategic opportunities of digitalisation, networking and intelligence, give full play to the advantages of their respective industries and form synergies.” They added: “We are committed[…]

Moroccan phosphate mining giant OCP has a long and ongoing relationship with Germany’s HAZEMAG but the latest crushing and scalping unit supplied stands out in terms of innovation – it is all at once compact, modular and mobile but also capable of 3.5 Mt screening and crushing per year. Recently, commissioning tests of the mobile[…]

It was announced on 29 July 2021 that FLSmidth will acquire thyssenkrupp’s Mining business (tk Mining). As stated in the announcement, it was still being negotiated if thyssenkrupp’s mining activities in India which are part of a larger integrated entity not fully owned by thyssenkrupp would be part of the transaction. Following discussions between the[…]

Eriez® has built and commissioned the world’s first 80 in Dry High Intensity Rare Earth (RE) Roll Magnetic Separator to satisfy unique minerals processing application requirements, according to Eriez Director of Minerals and Materials Processing Jose Marin. The Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator was successfully installed at the customer’s site, and preliminary findings indicate the[…]

GRS has secured an exclusive deal to bring to market millions of tonnes of granite arising from British tungsten mining as sustainable construction aggregate. The unique multi-million pound venture sees GRS join forces with Tungsten West, operators of recently reopened Hemerdon tungsten-tin mine near Plympton, Devon, to sell high-quality secondary aggregate and transport it nationwide[…]