Archives: Industrial minerals

Albemarle Corporation, a global leader in providing essential elements for mobility, energy, connectivity and health, signed agreements today with Caterpillar Inc to collaborate on solutions to support the full circular battery value chain and sustainable mining operations. The collaboration aims to support Albemarle’s efforts to establish Kings Mountain, North Carolina as the first-ever zero-emissions lithium[…]

Metso has modernised its pilot facility at Metso Research Center in Pori, Finland, with expanded capabilities for lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and other battery chemicals process testing. The unique pilot line serves mining and battery industry customers processing battery minerals. In connection with the expansion, Metso has also opened a battery materials precursor (pCAM) pilot plant,[…]

Since 2021, future graphite mining major Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) and Caterpillar, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, have been collaborating to develop, test, and supply an integrated all-electric fleet for the Matawinie mine. In a recent review of its roadmap to zero-exhaust emission mining, NMG said it and Caterpillar’s[…]

ADP, a Lycopodium business, commenced operations with the design and supply of modular diamond plants in 1997. Over the ensuing years it has expanded its capabilities to deliver all traditional and specialised project services for the mining industry across a range of commodities, including diamonds, fluorspar, gold, graphite, iron ore, lithium, mineral sands, platinum, rare[…]

A remote-controlled Caterpillar D8 dozer is now ready for operation at Sibelco’s underground nepheline syenite mine in Stjernøy, northern Norway. The technology from Norwegian company Steer AS, is enabling Sibelco to increase production at the plant with environmental benefits. It is an important development as it shows an example of one of the world’s largest industrial[…]

Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.) says it has achieved a major milestone with the removal of the safety driver in an active commercial mining operation at Brönnöy Kalk mine in Velfjord, Norway. The autonomous transport solution developed for Brönnöy Kalk consists of seven fully autonomous Volvo FH trucks and V.A.S.’s in-house developed virtual driver. Operating in challenging[…]

xtonomy provides an advanced next-gen autonomous solution for mining and quarrying and argues: “xtonomy’s AI is the only commercially available system that is capable to navigate freely in unstructured and ever-changing environments such as in quarries. This enables autonomy for the first time also in complex dynamic sites and opens the technology to a wide[…]

Emerging critical mineral producer FYI Resources has announced that Minhub Operations Pty Ltd (MOPL) has appointed international engineering group, IHC Mining (IHCM) to undertake initial test work and engineering studies on a proposed Mineral Processing Plant (MSP) at the Minhub rare earths/zircon project in Darwin, Northern Territory. MOPL was established to develop an independent collaborative[…]

QMAG Pty Limited, part of the Refratechnik group, owns the Kunwarara deposit of cryptocrystalline magnesite – one of the world’s largest – located in Central Queensland, Australia. It mines the ore using the open-pit method and processes it into high quality fused (FM), dead burnt (DBM) and caustic calcined (CCM) magnesia products at the nearby[…]

ABB is collaborating with Norge Mining to conduct a FEED (Front-End Engineering and Design) study for a future Norwegian upstream mine production which it says has the potential to supply minerals used in electric vehicles and solar panels needed for the clean energy revolution, and fertiliser demand, for at least 50 years. The deposit contains[…]