Archives: Industrial minerals

Shell has become the sole owner of MachineMax, acquiring the stakes held by MachineMax’ s two other investors – BCG Digital Ventures and B Capital Group – as well as the company’s two founders. MachineMax helps companies to maximise the profitability and efficiency of their off-highway fleets using smart sensors and next-generation analytics. MachineMax will[…]

Many mines struggle with crushing run-of-mine materials which can consist of a combination of clays, marls, other sticky materials, and hard stones. Traditional hard rock jaw and gyratory crushers work well with hard material but can pack and clog with soft, sticky, or wet feed. Komatsu states: “In the past, material hardness has limited where[…]

Numerical simulation research that modelled the behaviour of particles on a conventional banana screen has been leveraged by local vibration screen specialist Kwatani to make fundamental improvements in the design. So important were Kwatani’s adaptations that they were able to double the throughput of a competitor’s problematic dewatering screen on a customer’s mine, where excessive[…]

RHI Magnesita, the leading global supplier of refractory products, systems and solutions, recently announced that an innovative, new two stage crushing system has been installed at their main United States industrial site in York, Pennsylvania which mines dolomite for the production of refractory materials. The custom-designed, two-stage primary crushing system incorporates advanced technology to increase[…]

Nutrien Ltd, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs, services and solutions, has announced that it is the first company in the fertiliser industry to implement the Cat® Command for Dozing remote-control system at its Aurora, North Carolina, US phosphate mine to create a safer working environment and improve reliability. This innovative technology allows workers[…]

Global major in crushers, feeders, rock breakers, screens and conveyors in mining, Astec Industries Inc, is launching a new modern look with a rebranding initiative to coincide with its business model. The rebrand includes a new logo, colour palette and website. The launch comes while the organisation streamlines its internal structure and operations to improve[…]

Weir Minerals’ Cavex® classification hydrocyclones have added value to two more African mines; one is a gold mining operation and the other mines fluorspar. Following the retrofitting of two Cavex® 700CVX13 hydrocyclones by Weir Minerals Africa, one of Ghana’s lowest-cost surface gold miners reported an almost 70% improvement in classification efficiency. There was also 50%[…]

Ukraine’s state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) is the first object of a large-scale privatisation program in Ukraine that will see the mineral sands mining major be auctioned off this summer with a starting price of UAH3.7 billion ($135 million). UMCC is the largest miner of ilmenite and the only miner of rutile and[…]

Eriez recently completed a 38,000 square-foot expansion to its Wager Road facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, giving the company more space to provide full-scale testing of its largest equipment utilised in heavy industries and expand global research and development (R&D) activities to support the continuing development of its state-of-the art flotation technologies. According to Eriez, the[…]

Just two months after the announcement of the Electric Mine Consortium, BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale, three of the world’s biggest resource companies are the founding patrons of a new mining industry haul truck electrification collaboration, the Charge On Innovation Challenge, which is being facilitated by Austmine. It is described as “a global initiative for[…]