Archives: Metallurgy

Horizonte Minerals, the nickel development company focused in Brazil, has published the results of the feasibility study for the Araguaia ferronickel project in Brazil’s Pará State. The study confirms Araguaia as a Tier 1 project with a large high-grade scalable resource, a long mine life and a low-cost source of ferronickel for the stainless-steel industry.[…]

Rio Tinto is developing a new chemical procedure to process jadarite, a mineral discovered in 2004 with concentrations of lithium and boron, as it looks to unlock the potential at its Jadar asset in Serbia. The company’s Technical Development Centre in Bundoora, Victoria (Australia), in collaboration with the company’s team of global experts, is using[…]

In an effort to improve leach kinetics and recoveries of primary copper concentrates, minerals process solutions provider FLSmidth developed the Rapid Oxidative Leach (ROL) process – capable of attaining over 97% copper dissolution in less than six hours under atmospheric conditions. This technology has been reported extensively in the pages of International Mining magazine, including[…]

The board of directors of Eldorado Gold have given the go ahead to build a mill at the Kisladag gold mine in Turkey, as the operation transitions away from its heap leaching roots. The Mill Project is expected to cost $520 million, including $384 million for the mill, $75 million for pre-stripping, and $61 million[…]

Agnico Eagle Mines is in the process of installing an ore sorting pilot plant at its Pinos Altos gold-silver operation in Mexico as it looks to improve the feed grade to its processing facilities. The announcement came in the company’s September quarter financial results, which also mentioned a planned trial of automated underground mining equipment[…]

Quebec, Canada-based Nouveau Monde Graphite’s latest economic study on the West Zone deposit of the Tony Claim Block, part of its Matawinie graphite property, in Saint-Michel-Des-Saints, has shown an all-electric open-pit mine can be built that delivers ample shareholder returns and the reduced carbon footprint the company was after. The feasibility study builds on a prefeasibility[…]

Metso’s Tampere, Finland, facility is due to deliver some 1,000 crushing and screening units this year as the company makes full use of the €1 million ($1.15 million) Speedline assembly line it started up in January. The investment, targeting both efficiency and safety improvements, has enabled Metso Tampere to produce more of its famous Lokotrack®[…]

The Mt Thirsty cobalt project is located 16 km northwest of Norseman, Western Australia and is jointly owned by Conico Ltd and Barra Resources Ltd, together the Mt Thirsty Joint Venture (MTJV). The project contains the Mt Thirsty cobalt-nickel oxide deposit that has the potential to emerge as a significant cobalt producer. The MTJV is[…]

Through its programme “Turning Waste into Profit”, Eurasian Resources Group’s Kazakhstan operations turned some 88,000 tonne of waste into viable products in the first half of 2018, earning circa-$2.6 million in the process. ERG’s programme is able to use 20 types of waste – generated from its activities – to manufacture new products, help address[…]

Diversified global engineering, project delivery and operations management group, DRA Global, partnered JSE Listed Pan African Resources in completing its ZAR1.74 billion Elikhulu tailings retreatment project in Evander, Mpumalanga, within budget and ahead of schedule. Over the next 14 years, the ZAR1.74-billion Elikhulu project will process an estimated 1 Mt of monthly with a projected[…]