Archives: Metallurgy

Metso benefitted from a ramp up in project activity in the mining equipment market during the June quarter, with the company’s services and sales orders, and profit all growing in the three-month period. Overall orders received increased 14% year-on-year to €853 million, with services orders up 7% at €463 million. The company’s sales rose 15%[…]

Stronger metal output and prices saw Outotec’s order intake rise in the June quarter and first half of the year. The company reported a 13% year-on-year increase in the first half of the year and a 21% improvement in the most recent June quarter. Service orders also rose 16% and 18% in the half-year and[…]

Mincor Resources has poured first gold from its Widgiemooltha project in Western Australia and is on course to deliver 40,000 tonnes of ore per month to Westgold Resources’ nearby Higginsville plant. The first pour, from material sourced from the start-up upper benches of the Flinders and Bass pits, comes only 15 months after the company[…]

BHP has officially broke ground on the $3.6 billion South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara of Western Australia, just over a month since it approved development of the project. Officials from BHP and its joint venture partners Mitsui and ITOCHU were joined by Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan for the ceremony (pictured). The[…]

Mintek and Unisa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) are proud to announce their joint acquisition of a state-of-the-art 3D X-ray microscopy system. 3D X-ray imaging of advanced materials, rocks and minerals allows the ability to “see what’s inside” without physically breaking down the sample. The machine, which is similar to the CT scan[…]

Primero Group is to run the numbers at Savannah Resources 75%-owned Mina do Barroso lithium project in Portugal after being awarded the lead role for the upcoming feasibility study. The feasibility will build on the recently released scoping study, which envisaged the building of a $109 million, 1.3 million tonne per year run of mine[…]

Heron Resources’ Woodlawn zinc-copper project in the New South Wales, Australia, is really starting to take shape, with the company taking delivery of an IsaMill™ (pictured) earlier this week. The mill is an important part of the company’s processing plant, providing the fine grinding capability to reduce the flotation feed to 30 microns in size.[…]

Nemaska Lithium provides a project construction update and development timeline for its Whabouchi mine and electrochemical plant in Shawinigan. Moving forward, Nemaska Lithium intends to issue progress reports in conjunction with its quarterly and annual financial reporting. Guy Bourassa, President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium, commented, “With the project financing structure completed on May 30,[…]

Boliden will invest SEK750 million in a leaching plant at Rönnskär. The plant, expected to be operational at the end of 2020, aims to extract more metal from residual material. Simultaneously, the amount of waste for disposal in the deep repository at Rönnskär will be reduced. “The investment is fully in line with our strategy[…]

Schneider Electric has announced the latest addition to its industrial software portfolio, EcoStruxure™ Augmented Operator Advisor, featuring augmented reality (AR). The new solution brings together physical, real-life objects with virtual objects to increase operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve proactive maintenance, according to the company. “EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor combines contextual and local dynamic information[…]