Archives: Industrial minerals

The formal opening of FLSmidth’s expanded facilities at its Delmas Supercenter in Mpumalanga the company says is good news for customers, while boosting the engineering capability of the South African economy. According to Stephan Kruger, FLSmidth Director for Manufacturing and Warehousing in the region, the added capacity of the facility will further contribute to the[…]

sensemetrics Inc, the Industrial IoT (IIoT) company that transforms sensor data into real-time situational awareness, active risk management and safety solutions for the world’s largest enterprises in mining, dams, energy and the industrial machine sector, today announced the launch of the sensemetrics Global Strategic Alliance Member Program. The program is designed to create a broad-based[…]

MICROMINE has announced the latest version of its field logging solution, Geobank Mobile 2019. Enhanced user interface control, data capture, camera integration, offline help and file exchange functionality are among the key features. Geobank Mobile 2019 is available for download now. Geobank Product Strategy Manager, Ian Whitehouse explained the new version boasted enhanced product functionality[…]

XCMG, the leading Chinese construction machinery manufacturer, will exhibit new products and construction machinery solutions at Bauma 2019, being held from April 4 to 8 in Munich, Germany. On the mining side it includes China’s largest wheel loader along with underground mining equipment including equipment for excavation, mining, loading, transportation and other processes underground. In[…]

Komatsu Australia Corp and Skycatch Inc are partnering to boost the efficiency of construction, mining, and quarry sites across Oceania with the High Precision Package. The High Precision Package is also known as Komatsu’s Everyday Drone Solution, a key component to the Smart Construction workflow.The Everyday Drone contains the Explore1 high precision UAV, the Edge1[…]

EPC-UK, a market leader within the UK commercial explosives and blasting services sector for mining and quarrying, has officially opened its new bulk emulsion facility at the company’s Rough Close Works site in Derbyshire. Designed to deliver the necessary infrastructure required to enhance the safety of the company’s emulsion manufacturing process, the state-of-the-art site –[…]

In flotation methods, eg for the recovery of ores, fine materials accumulate with a mineral content that for decades was too low for further beneficiation to be performed in a cost-effective manner. The materials were deposited in tailing ponds or in waste dumps, where in many cases millions of tonnes accumulated over the years. Today[…]

Saloro is gearing up for first production at its Barruecopardo tungsten mine, in Spain, with plant equipment being run through its paces, Fairport Engineering has reported. Fairport, which has been supporting the re-opening of the historic tungsten mine since 2014 in the plant design and engineering aspects, said the multi-stage crushing and screening plant was[…]

These are exciting times in the mining shovel market. With the first Komatsu Mining P&H 4800XPC model soon to be assembled at a large Canadian mining operation that cannot yet be named (but watch this space), there is also news on the Komatsu P&H 2650CX hybrid model. The first pilot machine saw evaluation trials at[…]

South Star Mining Corp’s aim of using a filter press and eliminating the requirement for a tailings storage facility at its Santa Cruz graphite project in Bahia, Brazil, has been given a boost following positive bench scale test results. The Toronto-listed company said it had received positive results for the laboratory bench scale filtered tailings[…]