Archives: Industrial minerals

We have great pleasure in announcing that the sixth in the series of our biennial In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) conferences is to be held in Cancun, Mexico at the Hyatt Zilara hotel on May 21-22! The IPCC event is a rare beast – a conference dedicated to a particular mining approach that is truly[…]

Tenova TAKRAF is a highly specialised supplier of machines and services in the fields of mining, materials handling and minerals processing. As such, it boasts a large base of installed machines that daily generate valuable data from which it can gain information regarding optimisation of design, operation and maintenance or even troubleshooting. In a recent[…]

Precision Periodic has announced the successful results of projects for Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute capturing, extracting and separating Rare Earth Elements (REE) out of both phosphoric acid and the resulting waste using the reusable Thor nano-filtration system. The filter captured 40-60% of the rare earth elements and radioactive elements in a five minute[…]

ICL Boulby, which recently marked its first year since completing the transition to becoming the world’s first and only polyhalite mine, says it is continuing to set new mining records. General Manager and Vice President Andrew Fulton announced that this week it has achieved its best ever weekly hoist record of 18,449 t as it[…]

As part of a process initiated by Sasol Ltd to incorporate a strategic partner for its explosives and rock fragmentation division, Chile based explosives major ENAEX SA has been selected as a preferred partner to negotiate the terms and conditions for creating a joint venture with Sasol South Africa Ltd, subsidiary of Sasol Ltd, to[…]

ASX-listed Agrimin has awarded Primero Group the engineering design contract for the process plant at the Mackay potash project, in Western Australia. With Agrimin’s process consultants at Novopro Projects having already completed the process modelling and flowsheets for the definitive feasibility study at Mackay, Primero has commenced the engineering design for the plant. A prefeasibility[…]

Saint Jean Carbon Inc, a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of green energy storage, green energy creation and green re-creation through the use of carbon materials has announced the signing of an arm’s length term sheet on June 28 2019 to acquire Process Research Ortech Inc (PRO). PRO is a privately[…]

In July 2009, Fenner Dunlop opened a A$70 million state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Kwinana, Western Australia, specifically built for the production of steel cord belting. It represented the largest investment in conveyor belting manufacturer ever made in Australia by any company. In 2013 another A$20 million was invested to install a second press line increasing[…]

The Sirius Minerals engineering team has been in Germany for factory tests of its first 60 m tall Herrenknecht Shaft Boring roadheader. The 350 t excavator will now undergo cutting tests before transportation to the Woodsmith polyhalite mine where it will sink one of the main shafts. Sirius’s shaft sinking contractor DMC Mining Services Ltd (DMC), will use the innovative,[…]

Human errors are costly for any industry, but in mining with its expensive equipment their price is enormous. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not replace humans in the mining industry completely, but will help to cut their errors considerably, Anton Potapov, CTO at VIST Group (part of ZYFRA Group), told IM. “Productivity in the mining sector[…]