Archives: Industrial minerals

Prairie Machine recently achieved final commissioning of Borer Miner 503 at Mosaic’s K3 potash mine near Esterhazy in Saskatchewan, Canada. This Xcel 4-Rotor Continuous Boring Miner is the fourth of six machines that are soon to be delivered and put into operation at Mosaic K3. They have a maximum cutting width of 26 ft and[…]

SGS has a long and established record of providing the mining industry in Canada and worldwide with cutting-edge automated mineralogy. Recently, the SGS mineralogical team at the company’s lab in Burnaby, British Columbia added a TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyser (TIMA-X) into their in-house capabilities. The company says this will help it continue delivering trusted automated[…]

Last year, Maelgwyn Mineral Services Ltd (MMS) announced that it had been awarded a contract to supply the flotation process equipment for the Beyondie Sulphate of Potash Project (BSOPP) purification plant in Western Australia. The project is being developed by ASX-listed Kalium Lakes Ltd which recently stated on June 25 that German engineer and equipment[…]

A consortium of leading mining universities and mining companies in Europe has designed a dedicated training programme for mining professionals. “SafeDeepMining” is funded by EIT RawMaterials and aims to address the shortage of highly trained rock engineering personnel for deep mines that can deal effectively with the rock pressure problems jeopardising the extraction of deep[…]

As sustainable processing of the world’s natural resources is becoming a norm within industries like mining, newly formed Metso Outotec says it is actively driving the transformation. The company says: “Growing interest towards the environment and the impacts of climate change, urbanisation, decreasing ore grades and electrification are forcing traditional industries like aggregates, minerals processing[…]

High-grade, simple orebodies are becoming harder to find, forcing mines to process lower grade and more complex deposits. Being able to quantify the mineralogy of incoming ore-bearing rocks is critical to pre-planning and optimising processing operations as well as controlling costs. Most types of mineral processing activities can benefit from access to accurate daily mineralogy[…]

Astec Industries, Inc. through its regional office Astec Industries Africa Middle East and Aramine have signed a distribution contract at the beginning of June 2020, appointing the French company Aramine as the official dealer of Astec Material Solutions products in a number of strategic countries in West Africa (Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina[…]

There has been a lot of very general talk of a “new normal” in mining, of new ways of mines doing things during the COVID-19 pandemic – a lot of it focussed mainly on a perceived new introduction or speeding up of autonomous operations and without much detail. To get to the bottom of what[…]

Metso Corporation and Outotec Oyj have now received the remaining outstanding competition clearances for the combination of Metso’s Minerals business with Outotec through a partial demerger of Metso. Current Metso shareholders will own 78% and Outotec shareholders 22% of the combined company. Pekka Vauramo, the current Metso President and CEO will be the CEO of[…]

Worley says it has been awarded a three‐year services contract with Alcoa of Australia for the company’s integrated mining, refining and smelting operations. Under the contract, Worley will provide engineering and project delivery services for Alcoa’s site‐based sustaining capital program of works. The contract continues the existing relationship between Alcoa and Worley, and establishes Worley[…]