Archives: Industrial minerals

Over the course of 2018, Royal IHC says it has strengthened its mining activities by securing a number of important partnerships. In July, IHC Robbins – a wholly owned subsidiary of IHC – announced that it had entered into a Heads of Agreement with Dome Gold Mines based in Australia. In the same country, IHC[…]

SKAKO Vibration has once again been chosen by l’Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), one of the world’s largest phosphate producers, to supply a line of scrubbing equipment for a phosphate mining plant in Morocco. The order represents a value of more than 25 million DKK (almost €3.5 million) and includes a large drum washer and[…]

GR Engineering Services has entered into an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Tellus Holdings Ltd for its Sandy Ridge kaolin project in Western Australia. Tellus, a public unlisted infrastructure development company in the business of developing geological repositories that provide waste storage, recovery and permanent isolation solutions and complementary salt and clay products,[…]

A Natural Resources Canada-backed research project is looking to devise remote predictive mapping (RPM) methods aiding exploration in the north of the country. The Vancouver Island University (VIU) research project will, the university says, “provide a unique opportunity to examine the glacial landscape of Canada’s North”, resulting in new mapping methods to help identify sources[…]

Talga Resources has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with a subsidiary of Germany-based Schunk Group to co-operate on the exploration and incorporation of Talga graphene (Talphene®) into a Schunk product with applications in the automotive sector. The ASX-listed company said further details of the LoI and the application were commercial in confidence at this[…]

FLSmidth has looked to spell out to the mining industry the benefits of its REFLUX™ Classifier (RC™) technology. The RC is a slurry-based gravity separator designed specifically to upgrade fine minerals generally finer than 2 mm, the company says. “The key design element is a system of lamella plates or inclined channels and the internal[…]

Syrah Resources has declared commercial production at its majority-owned Balama graphite operation in Mozambique. “Following a review of monthly operating metrics, the board has determined that the criteria to achieve commercial production, as set out in the 2017 annual report, have been met with effect from January 1, 2019,” the company said. During the December[…]

The Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science recently announced that the joint venture (JV) between Qtec, Wallis Drilling and the University of Western Australia has been awarded a three‑year grant from the Cooperative Research Centres Program (CRC-P) up to the value of A$2.8 million ($2 million). Qteq, as the award recipients with Wallis[…]

ASX-listed Australian Potash says it is poised to become the country’s first producer of sulphate of potash (SOP) from field evaporated salts after its pilot plant facility received 3 t of the final potassium-rich harvest salts from the Lake Wells pilot evaporation programme. This announcement, made at the end of December, should lead to the[…]

The Mosaic Company has acquired the US Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit for its Ona phosphate project in Hardee County, Florida. This was the final remaining permit for the project and secures 160.2 million tons, or 145.33 Mt (metric), of phosphate rock for future mining, the company said. The overall project covers 22,483 acres[…]