Archives: Industrial minerals

A 10-week research project electrifying and automating the majority of equipment at Skanska’s Vikan Kross quarry, near Gothenburg, Sweden, has seen a 98% reduction in carbon emissions, a 70% reduction in energy cost and a 40% reduction in operator cost. The Electric Site research project, conducted by Volvo Construction Equipment and its customer Skanska, were[…]

ioneer Ltd (formerly Global Geoscience Ltd) has selected Fluor to deliver the definitive feasibility study for its Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project outside of Tonopah, Nevada, in the US. Fluor will initially provide the DFS and, as the project advances, engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services. The appointment follows the completion last month of the[…]

Since the end of August, Volvo CE and its customer Skanska have been testing the viability of the Electric Site research project at Skanska’s Vikan Kross quarry, near Gothenburg, Sweden, which is being visited by IM this week, and will be the subject of a special report in our January 2019 issue. The project is[…]

Boart Longyear has chosen this year’s Groundwater Week exhibition as the appropriate setting to display its advanced sonic drilling technology which employs the use of high-frequency, resonant energy to eliminate or minimise friction in subsurface drilling applications. Its highly productive LS™250 sonic drill rig will be on show at the event. This features the MiniSonic™[…]

Volvo Trucks has just signed a landmark agreement with Brønnøy Kalk AS in Norway to provide its first commercial autonomous solution transporting limestone from an open pit mine to a nearby port. The solution for Brønnøy Kalk AS consists of limestone being transported by six autonomous Volvo FH trucks on a 5 km stretch through[…]

XECUTE is the latest in RPMGlobal’s extensive line of mine planning and scheduling software solutions to receive an update. XECUTE 1.10 builds on the core capabilities of XECUTE and features advanced upgrades to improve the live planning environment. This uses “enterprise enablement” to deliver real inter-departmental collaboration, according to RPMGlobal. XECUTE was designed to bridge[…]

Fluor Corp reports Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) has achieved first ore at its Bauxite Production Expansion project in Kamsar, Guinea, safely, on budget and on schedule. The project is expanding bauxite production at the mine from 13.5 to 18.5 Mt/y, with Fluor, as the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contractor, responsible[…]

Master Magnets has manufactured and despatched a Disc Magnetic Separator to Nigeria for use in the processing of coltan. The magnetic separator is used in a process to extract primarily tantalum from coltan, which is a combination of columbite and tantalite. For this new project, tests were undertaken in the Master Magnet test facility in[…]

Finland and Russia based ZYFRA Group, the AI and IIoT solutions developer for industry is acquiring VIST Group, one of the industrial leaders in development and implementation of technologies for digital mining for $30 million. Through acquisition of this asset the company is planning to occupy a significant share of global intelligent mining market. “Via[…]

High Purity Alumina (HPA) developer, FYI Resources Ltd has started a BFS for its wholly-owned Cadoux kaolin project (E70/4673) in Western Australia. This follows the excellent economic outcomes achieved in the Cadoux PFS, released to the ASX on 25 September 2018. The PFS outlines a HPA production scenario of 8,000 t/y via a conventional HCl[…]