Archives: Industrial minerals

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Seamus O’Regan, has announced a C$1.6 million ($1.2 million) investment in the development of an analyser able to provide near real-time measurements of the active clay content in oil sands and mine tailings. The project, led by the Saskatchewan Research Council with Suncor Energy Inc and the Northern Alberta Institute[…]

The Centre Technologique des Résidus Industriels (CTRI or Industrial Waste Technological Centre) in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec has announced some important financing for an innovative new project in the context of the Clean Growth Program (CGP) in the natural resources sector. The pilot project that will test Kerzers, Switzerland-based SELFRAG’s high voltage pulse fragmentation technology for the[…]

In its H1 2020 report, ASX-listed Highfield Resources says negotiations with Komatsu Mining for the acquisition of two bolter miners continued during the half year and subsidiary Geoalcali, which will be the operator of the Muga potash mine in Spain’s Ebro Basin, expects to sign an equipment purchase contract once negotiations are satisfactorily completed. The[…]

On Tuesday 8 September 2020, Flemish Minister of Energy Zuhal Demir installed the last solar panel of Floating PV, a groundbreaking solar park built on water and the first of its kind in Flanders. The innovative park was built on Sibelco’s ‘Schansheide’ silica sand mine on the border of the Antwerp municipalities of Mol and[…]

Gensource Potash Corporation, a fertiliser development company focused on sustainable potash production, has announced the successful completion of the next major milestone for its Tugaske Project in Saskatchewan. Gensource has now received approval of its Development Permit Application for a potash mine from the Rural Municipality (RM) of Huron No. 223, whose offices are in[…]

Anglo American has confirmed its Crop Nutrients business has ended the contract of its shaft sinking contractor, DMC Mining Services UK Ltd, at the Woodsmith polyhalite project in the UK. Anglo, which only took ownership of the asset earlier this year, said DMC staff were expected to transfer to Anglo American under the Transfer of[…]

CDE has helped SOMEVAM, a subsidiary of the Sebri group, diversify into a new market by providing a tailor-made wet processing solution that eliminated contaminants and increased the quality of its end products. SOMEVAM has operated sand quarries in Oueslatia, Tunisia, serving the national construction market since 2001. Following testing of material, SOMEVAM saw the[…]

In its H1 2020 results, EuroChem provided an update on its two major new potash mines in Russia, namely Usolskiy in the Perm region based on the Verkhnekamskoe potash deposit; and VolgaKaliy in the Volgograd region based on the Gremyachinskoe deposit. Both mines are using large fleets of Kopeysk  Machine-Building Plant Ural-20R potash mining combines[…]

The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (the Standard) launched today, establishes the first global standard on tailings management that can be applied to existing and future tailings facilities, wherever they are and whoever operates them. Strengthening current practices in the mining industry by integrating social, environmental, local economic and technical considerations, the Standard covers[…]

Innovations in the washing sector and the continued advancement of CDE’s pioneering wet processing solutions the company says are supporting quarry operators and materials processors alike to overcome the challenges stemming from water management; cost-based, efficiency, sustainability and regulatory. CDE says its modular wet processing equipment can contribute to the easing of water scarcity issues[…]