Archives: Industrial minerals

HAZEMAG has announced the sale of a HAZEMAG Roll Crusher HRC 0810 (565 t/h) for kiln stone production in a magnesite ore application in Brazil. The hydraulic retraction and gap adjustment system will work in tandem with an optical on-belt particle size analyser and allow adjustment of the crusher gap setting to compensate for wear.[…]

American Pacific Borates Ltd has appointed Matrix Service Company to complete the construction of Phase 1A of the Fort Cady borate mine, in USA. Matrix, as the prime contractor, has already begun integration with the company’s Fort Cady borate mine office and engineering consultants to ensure completion of the initial borate operation in the September[…]

Almonty Industries is expanding its current environmental, social and governance (ESG) program at its Panasqueira mine in Portugal and at its Sangdong project (pictured) in South Korea, with the former set to receive a solar facility in the next 12 months and the latter eying up the use of underground electric fleets. The solar project[…]

Metso Outotec has convened local trade unions to negotiations concerning the restructuring and operational reduction of its operations in Sweden. The measures relate to new product strategy and business model changes and synergy targets from the Metso Outotec merger. The Swedish operations have issued a negotiation proposal, according to which the total reduction need in[…]

Continental says it has “strategically sharpened” its profile as a provider of service and complete conveying solutions and therefore has opted to unify its portfolio under the Continental brand. In the future, all products, technologies and services, know-how and expertise will be combined under the Continental brand. “Decisive drivers are our customers. In this way,[…]

ASX-listed Eclipse Metals Ltd has announced that it has entered into an agreement pursuant to which it will acquire the Ivittuut Project in Greenland and associated mining information in relation to the Project tenement. The Ivittuut Project (sometimes called Ivigtut) is known as the world’s largest and only cryolite mine from which cryolite was historically[…]

FLSmidth today announces that it is in negotiations with thyssenkrupp concerning an acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s mining business – this would be the biggest deal in mining technology since Metso merged with Outotec. The negotiations, however, are at a non-binding stage. The statement said: “Accordingly, there can be no assurances as to whether and when a[…]

To adjust its manufacturing operations to needed capacity and optimise its global footprint, Komatsu has announced it is closing its manufacturing plant in Bluefield, Virginia, and shifting that work to three other facilities in the company’s US network. “These are truly unprecedented times and as a company we have had to adapt as best we[…]

In August 2020, a system for automatic quality control of potassium chloride (KCl 98%) production was put into commercial operation at global potash mining major JSC Belaruskali’s concentrating plant SOF-4 RU in Soligorsk, Belarus. The system is based on the MAYA 4L laser elemental composition analyser which is manufactured by Lithuania-based Lyncis UAB in Vilnius.[…]

Sometimes advances are made by smaller mining companies who set out to make changes themselves using their own innovations. Çimnak Co, a subsidiary of Nuh Cement Inc in Turkey, supplies Nuh Cement with 3.7 Mt of marl annually. Diesel-powered machinery is employed at the quarries and the annual diesel fuel consumption is well over 2[…]