Archives: Metallurgy

The ALTA 2020 conference is shaping up nicely, with new opening and keynote speakers just announced for its 25th anniversary event. Stedman Ellis, Chief Executive Officer of Future Battery Industries CRC (Australia), is set to open the conference with a paper titled, “A Research-Based Strategy for Establishing Australia as a Leading Player in the Emerging[…]

Comet Resources has launched a scoping study into building a pilot plant to test a potential new nickel processing breakthrough, Director Hugh Morgan said on the final day of the Paydirt 2019 Africa Downunder mining conference in Perth, Australia. The company’s Titan nickel project, in Nigeria, is one of those rare discoveries where the metal[…]

Veolia says it has been selected by Toyota Tsusho and Orocobre to supply lithium refining technologies to the Naraha plant in Japan. Veolia Water Technologies will, under an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract, provide a chemical processing plant featuring HPD® evaporation and crystallisation technologies designed to convert lithium carbonate into lithium hydroxide employed in[…]

First Cobalt Corp, following a finance agreement with Glencore, has started to award key contracts to complete a 55 t/d feasibility study on the proposed expansion of its cobalt refinery. Field work is expected to commence in September and will culminate in the delivery of a definitive feasibility study (DFS) in the March quarter, the[…]

TOMRA’s ore sorting technology has delivered impressive results in its first diamond processing plant application.  The company worked with Stornoway Diamonds and its Renard diamond mine, in Quebec, Canada. The Renard mine, in commercial production since 2017, is the first diamond mine in the province and one of six in Canada. It started with an open-pit[…]

ASX-listed SciDev Ltd says it has been awarded a three-year contract with Iluka Resources for delivery of MaxiFlox® chemistry to the Jacinth–Ambrosia zircon mine, in South Australia. The contract, expected to be worth some A$8-12 million ($5-8 million) over the three-year term, follows the delivery of a chemical products trial for the miner in the[…]

Australian Vanadium has announced the selection of Metso for the next phase of definitive feasibility study pilot testing at its Australian Vanadium project. Metso was chosen because of its world-renowned expertise in Grate Kiln (GK) processing solutions, the ASX-listed company said. “AVL and Metso are committed to working together to develop an improved thermal processing[…]

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) ore sorting technology has found another fan after Fireweed Zinc reported positive results from preconcentration test work at its Macmillan Pass zinc project in the Yukon of Canada. Samples from Macmillan Pass’ Boundary Zone, a discrete bulk-tonnage, exploration target 15 km northwest of the Jason zinc-lead-silver deposit, were put through XRF, X-ray[…]

Glencore Technology and SGS Minerals have announced an agreement and certification that has seen SGS’s Lakefield site in Ontario, Canada, become the latest laboratory to be certified to conduct amenability level Albion Process™ testwork. SGS, one of the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification companies, has become only the third certified provider of Albion[…]

Production looks like increasing at Northern Vertex Mining’s recently started up Moss gold-silver mine, in Arizona, USA, as recent modifications to the Merrill Crowe facility and additional output from the heap leach kick in. The company produced 7,482 oz of gold and 45,876 oz of silver during the three months to the end of June,[…]