Archives: Metallurgy

Outotec registered a year-on-year improvement in financial performance in 2018, excluding a €110 million ($125 million) ilmenite smelter project provision, the company reported today. The company’s sales increased 12% in 2018 to €1.28 billion, while its order intake jumped 4% to €1.25 billion. The €110 million provision for the Saudi Arabia project saw adjusted earnings[…]

Eldorado Gold has decided to resume mining, crushing, stacking and heap leaching at its Kisladag gold mine, in Turkey, and suspended plans to build a $500 million processing plant. The decision comes following the receipt of metallurgical test work on material placed on the heap leach pad last year. Not only will this move defer[…]

FLSmidth has provided an update on its Rapid Oxidative Leach (ROL) technology at the same time as reporting a boost in revenue and profit for 2018. Releasing its 2018 annual report, the company said revenue grew by 4% year-on-year to DKK18.75 billion ($2.8 billion) in 2018, with a 13% growth in order intake (DKK19.17 billion)[…]

Goldcorp has announced the six semi-finalists that will display their ideas and technologies at the #DisruptMining Innovation Expo in March. Commercial Pau, Envisioning Labs, ETF Mining, Gekko Systems, Hydrostor Inc and RubberJet Valley have made the shortlist and will showcase their technologies at the event on March 3 at the Rebel Entertainment Complex in Toronto,[…]

ABB says advanced process control (APC) using a straightforward design and deployment of model predictive control (MPC) with its System 800xA DCS can enable higher levels of automation and optimisation in a grinding and flotation circuit. In a typical grinding circuit, ore is fed into the mills where abrasion, attrition and impact reduce its size,[…]

Multotec Process Equipment’s spiral technology has recently enjoyed success at copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the company says. The South Africa-based company says its equipment is upgrading product from 1-3% Cu run-of-mine to 20%-plus Cu concentrate. “These mines can achieve an upgraded product which can be sold as copper[…]

Toronto and New York-listed Vista Gold reports recent high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) crusher and ore sorting tests on high-grade samples at its Mt Todd gold project, in the Northern Territory of Australia, have confirmed previous test results. The company has also announced plans to complete fine grinding and leaching tests in the March quarter[…]

Goldcorp says it is embracing innovation to make our operations safer, more productive and to help reduce our impact on the environment. “We partner with like-minded suppliers and organisations to find innovative solutions to some of the challenges our industry faces. One such collaboration between Goldcorp’s Red Lake Gold Mines (RLGM) and the Natural Sciences[…]

Novo Resources has announced gold-rich assay results from concentrates generated by mechanical sorting trials conducted on four bulk samples from its Karratha gold project in Western Australia. In order to test the potential viability of mechanical rock sorting as a means of concentrating gold from conglomerates at Karratha, four bulk samples were collected, crushed, screened[…]

Global engineering, construction, and project management company Bechtel has opened the Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center to lead, it says, “the development of new technologies that boost productivity, promote environmental sustainability and improve worker safety for the copper industry.” The Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center is the result of an initiative begun three[…]