Archives: Metallurgy

Canada’s Wajax Corp has acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Montréal, Québec-based Groupe Delom Inc. Founded in 1963, Delom specializes in the maintenance and repair of critical electromechanical and rotating equipment for continuous process industries. Serving customers in diverse end markets, including hydroelectric, wind and nuclear power generation, mining, pulp and paper,[…]

Excelsior Mining Corp’s Class III Underground Injection Control Area Permit for the Gunnison Copper project (the UIC Permit) is now active and good for production of up to 125 Mlb/y of pure copper cathode. All required state and federal operating permits have now been successfully obtained. Stephen Twyerould, President & CEO, said, “I’m extremely proud[…]

Altech Chemicals has received the Certificate of Grant for an Innovation Patent from the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia), for its process of producing high purity alumina (HPA) from kaolin (aluminous clay). Altech originally filed the patent titled ‘A Method for the Preparation of Alumina’ in October 2014. This affords protection to Altech and its[…]

Zenyatta Ventures has added Interconnected Reduced Graphene Oxide (IC‐rGO) to its product development pipeline, working with its research partner Prof Aicheng Chen from the University of Guelph, Ontario. IC‐rGO is a three‐dimensional nanomaterial with potential applications in the energy and environmental industries. While working at Lakehead University in late 2016, Chen and his team first[…]

First Cobalt Corp reports on the results of three studies supporting a restart of the First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario, Canada. First Cobalt engaged Primero Group, an Australian engineering firm with an office in Montreal, Canada, to conduct a desktop study to estimate the capital and operating costs to operate the First Cobalt Refinery in[…]

Glencore Technology have introduced the world’s first 25% performance guarantee, eclipsing the seldom-mentioned 5% performance guarantees offered by some of the world’s major-asset mining technology providers. “Performance guarantees are used quietly to underwrite performance on major assets in a flowsheet like comminution, flotation and leaching. Most are not openly touted as policy and are quietly[…]

Horizonte Minerals, the multi-asset nickel development company focused in Brazil, is pleased to provide an update on its 100% owned, Vermelho nickel-cobalt located in the eastern part of the Carajás mining district. Test-work is underway at SGS Lakefield on Vermelho limonite samples, with the objective of producing high purity nickel and cobalt sulphate suitable for[…]

NioCorp Developments Ltd and IBC Advanced Alloys have announced the successful production of aluminium-scandium master alloy.  The master alloy was produced at the Ames Laboratory, a US government-owned, contractor-operated national laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE), located in Ames, Iowa. NioCorp and IBC intend to use the master alloy from this program to[…]

EESTech says it has has engineered a breakthrough design for induction furnaces; the Inductosmelt Reduction Furnace (IRF). “The IRF is a world first induction furnace capable of melting or smelting non-conductive materials.” It reduces the cost of smelting, requiring up to 80% less energy than traditional electric arc or blast furnaces and achieves up to[…]

Eriez Europe has opened a new 326 m² manufacturing facility dedicated to rotor manufacturing, light fabrication assembly and additional product line assembly, expanding the existing European manufacturing headquarters in Caerphilly, South Wales. Complementing Eriez’ Eddy Current Separator (ECS) manufacturing sites in North America and Asia, the expansion of the South Wales facility adds a third[…]