Archives: Metallurgy

Taseko Mines says it has reached “commercial grade levels” at its Florence in-situ copper test mine in Arizona, USA, less than six months after well field operations commenced. The company cannot yet say it is a ‘commercial mine’, but it is well on the way to being able to with permits amendment applications to transfer[…]

On the back of successful industry trials and the first gold pour last year, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, says it will transfer its ‘Going for Gold’ process technology to Australian company, Clean Mining Ltd. The alternative gold recovery process technology, which dispenses with toxic cyanide and mercury currently used in most gold production processes[…]

BHP says it has successfully completed its heap leach research and development trial in South Australia, confirming the viability of the technology to extract copper, uranium, gold and silver at Olympic Dam. The program began in 2012 and was conducted at a purpose-built, small-scale heap leach facility at Wingfield run by Bureau Veritas, under direction[…]

BQE Water says it has been retained by GoGold Resources for the implementation of a sulphidisation, acidification, recycling and thickening (SART) plant at the Parral operation in Chihuahua, Mexico. The contract comes after on-site testing and preliminary assessment of SART integration into the metallurgical process at Parral that were completed earlier by BQE Water. Under[…]

There are a number of potential technology opportunities to effect up-front gangue rejection in the minerals sector. CRC ORE has been working with several of its mining participants to assess the efficacy of a range of such technologies, assessed across a variety of operations and commodities. Its “Grade Engineering®” approach references a suite of integrated[…]

MGX Minerals and Eureka Resources say they have entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement that could see the world’s first commercial rapid petrolithium recovery system installed in Pennsylvania, in the US. The newly formed JV will initially focus on fast tracking deployment of the commercial system at Eureka’s Standing Stone advanced wastewater treatment facility[…]

Following the approval of the competition authorities, IMP Automation Group has now officially become a part of FLSmidth. With the acquisition, first announced in February, FLSmidth completes its portfolio of automated laboratory solutions for the mining industry. “IMP is the established global leader in automated laboratory solutions for the mining industry, and its core competencies[…]

BQE Water says it has been awarded its first contract to deliver a sulphidisation, acidification, recycling and thickening (SART) plant in China. The contract, at a gold metallurgical facility owned and operated by Shandong Zhongkuang Group Co in eastern China, was awarded following the positive outcome of the engineering feasibility study and on-site testing completed[…]

Saturn Metals is heralding the first pass results of a laser ore sorting test at its Apollo Hill gold project, near Leonora in the Western Australia goldfields, saying there is potential for using this type of mineral processing upgrade on a future mining operation. Testing using a STEINERT Fines KSS L machine showed mineralised quartz[…]

Outotec President and CEO, Markku Teräsvasara, says the company saw signs of increased greenfield investments in both minerals processing and metal refining technologies in the most recent March quarter, providing the company with a positive outlook for the rest of 2019. The mineral processing and refining company reported 1% year-on-year growth, to €336.1 million ($370.7[…]