Archives: Metallurgy

Some four years ago, at a nickel conference in Seville, Roskill’s presentation on the use of nickel in batteries asked the question “…if every vehicle sold today were a Tesla, how much nickel would these consume in their batteries?” While one audience member volunteered an estimate of 150,000 t, the true figure – over 5[…]

Pure Battery Technologies believes it has a cost effective and clean way of producing nickel and cobalt products for the battery sector just as demand for both metals has started to accelerate. PBT is commercialising the patented Selective Acid Leaching (SAL) process developed by the University of Queensland, which involves leaching and solvent extraction of[…]

Peak Resources has entered into an option agreement for the long term lease of the land for the proposed Teesside rare earth refinery and separation plant in the UK. Peak and its partners are developing the Ngualla project in Tanzania into a low cost next generation rare earth project that is strongly aligned to the[…]

Indonesian state tin producer, PT Timah, has agreed to a deal for the design and delivery of a new tin smelter with Outotec, based on its Ausmelt Furnace technology. The delivery of the furnace is expected to take two years, with completion targeted by 2020. The new equipment will represent an upgrade from the reverberatory[…]

Deep-South Resources has signed a licence agreement with Alexander Mining to acquire a licence for the potential use of Alexander’s proprietary leaching technologies at the Kapili Tepe (KT) polymetallic copper project in the Sivas Province in the northeast/central part of Turkey. The Agreement is conditional on Deep-South completing the acquisition of a 75% equity interest[…]

Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) is engaged in a project to convert a lead smelter in Port Klang, Malaysia, into a tin smelting plant. The company plans to test-fire the converted furnace by the end of 2018 and start smelting from the plant from the second half of 2019 when it expects to receive environmental approvals.[…]

August 1, 2018 is the closing date for papers to be submitted for the 2019 SME Annual Conference. Organised by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME), the event is being held from 24-27 February 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The conference theme is SMART Mining: Resources for a Connected World, however abstracts can be[…]

Outotec has agreed with the Sweden-based mining company Boliden on the design and delivery of an absorption section to be built for the sulphuric acid plant at the Rönnskär smelter. The order has been booked in Outotec’s 2018 second quarter order intake. Typically orders of this size and scope are valued at over EUR10 million.[…]

Australian Mines Ltd (AUZ) remains committed to maximising revenue and value from its Sconi project in Queensland, Australia through the commercialisation of the high-purity scandium oxide which is scheduled to be produced alongside the project’s cobalt sulphate and nickel sulphate output. It has entered into a partnership with United Kingdom-based technology company Metalysis, to support[…]

Scoria Environmental Ltd has approved a proposed private placement offering of up to $7.5 million. Proceeds of the Offering will be used to fund the planned optimisation program of Scoria’s Minex Process, a patented pyrometallurgical technology developed to address the environmental impact of some 2,000 Mt of mining and metallurgical slags by removing the valuable[…]