Archives: Metallurgy

GR Engineering Services has reviewed the latest technical optimisation studies related to the restart of the Honeymoon uranium mine, in South Australia, and come up with capital expenditure savings of $6.3 million for owner Boss Resources. Following the release of the feasibility study in January 2020, Boss embarked on technical optimisation studies which included completion[…]

SciDev has received a trial purchase order for its MaxiFlox chemistry from BHP’s Olympic Dam polymetallic mine, in South Australia, which will see the company transfer its waste processing expertise to the production side, Lewis Utting says. Australia’s largest copper operation, Olympic Dam operates a fully integrated processing facility from ore to metal. The SciDev[…]

This week, Norwegian copper mining company Nussir ASA entered into a memorandum of understanding for the sale of the full copper concentrate production for the first ten years from the Nussir mine in Finnmark, with an option to extend. Nussir said the German smelter Aurubis AG “won the fierce competition based on having the best[…]

South32’s association with the Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (TEMCO) is set to come to an end after it agreed to sell its stake in the manganese alloy smelter to an entity within the GFG Alliance. The announcement from South32’s Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) said completion of the transaction was subject to approval from Australia’s[…]

Hycroft Mining Holding Corp has continued to demonstrate the viability of its proprietary heap leach oxidation process at its Hycroft gold mine in Nevada, USA, over the June quarter, with the company hitting several milestones. The Hycroft gold-silver mine was restarted in 2019 to demonstrate this process, which oxidises sulphides prior to leaching, on a[…]

Quebec-based Corem is to receive C$2.1 million ($1.6 million) of funding from the Canadian government to support the development of an innovative process for the recovery and recycling of cyanide in the gold extraction process. This new process is more environmentally sustainable and reduces the impact of gold mining on the aquatic ecosystem, according to[…]

Scott Technology has been awarded a further multi-million dollar contract by Rio Tinto to provide and commission the equipment for a new sample preparation and analysis laboratory at the Robe Valley iron ore mine site in Western Australia. This is the second significant iron ore sample laboratory project awarded to Scott Technology by Rio Tinto[…]

Having completed the construction of the SART plant at the White Dam gold-copper heap leach asset in South Australia, GBM Resources has earned a 50% stake in the joint venture operation. The execution of the joint venture between GBM and Round Oak Minerals, signed on December 18, 2019, was conditional on the completion of the[…]

Generation Mining says it is making headway on the development plan for its Marathon palladium-copper project, in north-western Ontario, Canada, having contracted all the major engineering companies for the study. The study is expected to take around seven to eight months to conclude, with completion expected in early 2021, it said. G-Mining Services will carry[…]

GR Engineering Services has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Ora Banda Mining associated with the restart of the existing Davyhurst gold processing plant, in Western Australia. The EPC contract price is A$10.8 million ($7.6 million) and will be undertaken on a fixed price basis, which includes a provisional sum component.[…]