Archives: Industrial minerals

Outotec registered a year-on-year improvement in financial performance in 2018, excluding a €110 million ($125 million) ilmenite smelter project provision, the company reported today. The company’s sales increased 12% in 2018 to €1.28 billion, while its order intake jumped 4% to €1.25 billion. The €110 million provision for the Saudi Arabia project saw adjusted earnings[…]

FLSmidth says its Krebs® Technequip™ TGW series of wafer-style knife gate slurry valves have proven themselves across the globe. The valves are designed specifically for the harsh and abrasive slurries encountered in the mineral processing and power industries, with applications ranging from cement, sand and gravel to coal, phosphate, ash and alumina. They are designed[…]

The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has provided a SEK 1 billion (EUR 96 million) loan to the Swedish mining equipment company Epiroc to finance the company’s R&D investments in Sweden during 2018-2021. The eight-year loan funds Epiroc’s product and service development in the field of rock excavation, automation, interoperability and energy efficiency. “It is anticipated[…]

Axis House the leading reagent technology management company offering mining chemicals, flotation and mineral processing solutions since 2001 has become a major supplier and distributor of chemicals to the mining industry. As a result of extensive years of experience in the DRC and Zambia, Axis has announced the addition of a satellite office in Turkey[…]

Weir Minerals has delivered a custom designed plant that has boosted production and increased the product range at a sand and aggregates miner in Iowa, US. Family-owned Pattison Sand produces a diverse range of products, servicing several industries including infrastructure and construction. Weir said: “After successfully using a number of Weir Minerals products at their[…]

Siebtechnik and Tema have decided to join up and create Siebtechnik Tema as a way of bolstering the new company’s brand identity in the markets for centrifuges, screening machines, and sampling and preparation systems and components. The two firms already belong to the same group of companies which also includes South Africa-based Multotec. The company[…]

Australia-based Core Lithium has awarded preferred contractor status for three key components of its 100%-owned Finniss lithium project, near Darwin in the Northern Territory. The three contractors are key participants in the development team Core is assembling following the granting of the first mining licence earlier this month, it said. Primero Group has been named[…]

Sirius Minerals has unveiled the first of its 1,800 t tunnel boring machines (TBM) that will construct the company’s underground mineral transportation tunnel between Whitby and Teesside. The 225 m long machine is undergoing final checks in Germany before being shipped to Teesside in the coming weeks, where it will be reassembled and start tunnelling[…]

Sheffield Resources has secured a 15-year agreement with Woodside Energy and Energy Developments Pty Ltd (EDL) for the supply and delivery of 1,950 TJ/y of liquified natural gas (LNG) to its Thunderbird mineral sands project in northern Western Australia. LNG will be supplied from Woodside’s Pluto LNG truck loading facility, near Karratha in Western Australia[…]

CSIRO scientists are using microbes and other methods to remove valuable metals and other contaminants from mine wastewater – making remediation pay, the research company says. And, after testing it out in the lab, CSIRO is now working with Evolution Mining to develop better treatment solutions for the wastewater at the company’s Mt Rawdon gold[…]