Archives: Metallurgy

Alacer Gold Corp has announced the processing of the first sulphide ore through the sulphide plant at the Çöpler mine in Turkey, with the first autoclave coming online over the weekend and now operating as designed. As previously guided, commercial production is expected in early 2019 and ramp up to full nameplate capacity of 1.9 Mt/y[…]

Metso has signed an agreement to divest its grinding media business to Moly-Cop, a portfolio company of private equity firm American Industrial Partners. The transaction comprises the sale of Metso Spain Holding SLU, including operations in two locations with around 80 employees in Spain (Bilbao and Seville). The estimated turnover of the business in 2018[…]

With mining companies looking to replenish spent resources in many commodities, EPC and EPCM contractors’ pipelines are starting to fill up. IM Editor Dan Gleeson spoke with Tony Morgan, President, Mining and Metals, Fluor, to find out how the contractor is continuing to win business and differentiate its offering from the rest of its peers.[…]

TNG has signed up SMS Group to carry out the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia. The mandate for the contract encompasses the Mount Peake concentrator, the TIVAN® processing plant and all associated plant and equipment. The two companies have been working together[…]

Using a proprietary process developed by students from University of Central Florida (UCF), the Precision Periodic Mining Filtration System extracts and refines, in one process, multiple precious and platinum group metals from industry standard leached ore, eliminating the issues of specificity and contamination. The entire process from filtration to the collection and separation of multiple[…]

The European Commission has invited Finland to coordinate the research related to recycling in the battery industry. Outotec will lead the project together with Aalto University’s Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. Business Finland, a public research funding agency, is also strongly involved in advancing the project. Due to the rapidly growing demand for electric[…]

Canada’s government, through Natural Resources Canada, has challenged the mining industry to come up with a new clean technology solution that cuts energy consumption for crushing rock. The C$10 million ($7.6 million) “Crush It! Challenge” is aimed at tackling the disproportionate amount of energy used in mining to extract valuable minerals, NRC said, while helping[…]

Newcrest Mining has confirmed ore sorting technology is one of several innovations it is currently investigating at group level to increase profitability and build on its substantial resource base. The gold and copper miner’s technology and innovation team spoke at length at the company’s recent investor day about how new developments could enable the miner[…]

Ironbark Zinc and Metso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in relation to a potential services and equipment contract for the Citronen zinc project in Greenland. The ASX-listed company said the MoU sought to provide a platform to negotiate a commercial and binding agreement regarding services and equipment to be provided by the mining[…]

Rio Tinto has launched a new pioneer lab concept in Brisbane, Australia, as it encourages pilot projects to help move the company “into the 21st Century”, CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques told an audience at the IMARC event in Melbourne, Australia, today. The head of Rio told delegates that the company sent an open invitation to “the[…]