Archives: Metallurgy

DRDGOLD says commissioning of the Far West Gold Recoveries project, previously the West Rand Tailings Retreatment project, is set to start on December 6. Commissioning of the South Africa project will begin with the pumping of reclaimed tailings into the carbon-in-leach circuit. This comes just four months into the construction of Phase 1. Far West[…]

Goldcorp has achieved first gold at the Pyrite Leach project (PLP) at its Peñasquito operation in Mexico. Commissioning commenced in the September quarter and the PLP is now processing 100% of the existing plant tailings, with the PLP plant operating 24 h/d as it continues to ramp up. David Garofalo, President and Chief Executive Officer[…]

Hecla Mining is carrying out ore sorting proof of concept work at its San Sebastian silver-gold mine in Durango, Mexico, CEO Phil Baker told attendees at the Mines and Technology conference this week. Baker said an algorithm based on X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) technology was determining whether the rock coming through from the mine was ore[…]

For the first time since the crisis years, post-2013, there will be an increase in the turnover generated by the German mining equipment manufacturers this year, according to Germany’s Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA). The VDMA expects turnover to jump around 12% to nearly €3.1 billion ($3.51 billion) in 2018, with further growth expected for[…]

Petropavlovsk has made significant progress on the commissioning its Pressure Oxidation (POX) Hub project at the Pokrovskiy mine in the Russian Far East, with first refractory ore concentrate processing scheduled for November 28. During the week commencing November 5, the group’s in-house POX experts together with Outotec, MOGAS Systems & Consulting and representatives from various[…]

Lithium Australia’s wholly-owned subsidiary VSPC Ltd has completed a world first; producing lithium-ion battery cathode material and lithium-ion batteries from tri-lithium phosphate that came directly from mine waste. The feat was achieved using VSPC’s ground-breaking SiLeach® process, which removes the requirement for generation of high-purity lithium hydroxide or carbonate – long seen as one of[…]

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[…]

Dr Magdi Habib, Director General of CanmetMINING and Francis Fournier, President and CEO of COREM have announced the signing of a cooperation agreement. “Innovation is a must to solve the mining sector’s challenges. By working together with innovators across Canada, we can reduce the risk of adoption for new innovations to support the sustainability and[…]

After 25 years of supporting Russian clients from its global offices, AMC Consultants (AMC) is pleased to announce the opening of its ninth office, this time in Moscow. To be led by Mark Chesher, a mining engineer with more than 35 years experience, the office “will provide a gateway for clients in Russia to access[…]

Outotec has signed a contract for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a new copper smelter to be located at Benete Bay in Sumbawa, Indonesia. The contract partner is PT Amman Mineral Industri, a subsidiary of copper and gold producer PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara. The approximately EUR10 million contract has been booked in Outotec’s[…]